Level 5 Qualification or relevant experience.

Delivery is by distance learning with a comprehensive resource handbook on the VLE and available to download, examples of best practice, project templates and email and telephone support being available through our online VLE, individual tutorials and student forum. Specialist knowledge will be delivered by a diverse team of staff and visiting guest lecturers with a variety of relevant backgrounds and experience.

You will be considering your previous interior design experience and skills acquisition in the context of retail design in order to plan a major project or dissertation that progresses your aspirations for your career development. You will research associated areas and evaluate the opportunities for generating original and innovative ideas within an area of interior design. It is envisaged that this project or dissertation will inform your Retail Design Special Study Project which is the project you will undertake in order to achieve your BA (Hons) Award.

Coursework will consist of
Written reports, maximum 7000 words (LO 1,2,3,4)

Range of resources located on the VLS
Tutorial Staff
Library Services

Bell, J, 2005, Doing your Research Project, Open University Press
Blaxter, L, Hughes, C, Tight, M, 2001, How to Research, Open University Press
Laurel, B, 2003, Design Research Methods and Perspectives, the MIT Press