MATC 2025-26 Catalog

DEGREE/DIPLOMA/CERTIFICATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

activities of a professional kitchen and bathroom designer. Emphasis is placed on design techniques that are current with industry standards. NKBA guidelines will be addressed, along with the presentation and planning techniques of industry specific software. Prerequisite(s): Complete INDSGN-110 with a grade of C or higher. INDSGN-118 Credits: 3 Commercial Studio This course will explore the contract design industry and expose students to basic planning conditions, including planning guides and the ADA. Emphasis will be placed on furniture and material selection and specification. Students will explore industry specific software. Prerequisite(s): Complete INDSGN-110 with a grade of C or higher. INDSGN-120 Credits: 1 Interior Design Internship This course will explore basic professional business practices, including ethics and standards of the interior design profession. Students will explore various types of design employment and develop a working resume and cover letter. In addition, the student will observe and participate in work experience under the supervision of faculty in the Interior Design program. Prerequisite(s): Complete INDSGN-110 and INTRN-796 with a grade of C or higher. INDSGN-122 Credits: 3 Styles of Furniture and Architecture This course will explore the evolution of interior design and the applied arts, including art and architecture. Students will consider related political, socioeconomic and demographic influences of each period, from antiquity to contemporary style. INDSGN-124 Credits: 3 Advanced Commercial Studio Course will continue to establish the important role of code compliance in commercial interiors. Emphasis will be placed on key industry segments of facilities and healthcare design. Advanced design techniques and strategies, such as schedules, legends and reflected ceiling plans, will be covered, as well as an introduction to planning and specifying systems furniture. Students will learn Revit, an industry standard software, as it applies to the interior design process. Prerequisite(s): Complete INDSGN-118 with minimum grade of C or higher. INDSGN-128 Credits: 3 Designer/Client Relationships This course will focus on presentation selling and marketing strategies of interior design services and solutions. Emphasis is on cultivating and maintaining partnerships with clients and vendors. Students will develop oral, written and graphic presentations for residential and commercial design scenarios. INDSGN-131 Credits: 3 Portfolio Development and Application This course will prepare students for entry-level job interviews. Emphasis will be on appropriate

use of industry terminology and presentation skills and tools. Students will organize a portfolio of best works and will participate in a series of mock interviews. Prerequisite(s): Complete INDSGN-116 and INDSGN-118. INDVTS – Individual Technical Studies (Department 825) INDVTS-102 Career Assessment and Portfolio Development This course is the preliminary component in the Individualized Technical Studies degree program. Students will develop a career portfolio that identifies their career goals and enables them to create a formal educational plan to attain their goals. The portfolio will document employment history, educational experiences, and military and community service, and identify the skills and competencies students have acquired related to their career goals. The completed portfolio will be the basis for establishing an Individualized Technical Studies degree path. INTP – Interpreter Technician (Department 533) INTP-126 Credits: 3 American Sign Language 1 The intent of this course is to provide the student with a basic understanding of American Sign Language — the form of sign language most commonly used by deaf adults when communicating with each other. This course will be taught in American Sign Language with some additional use of written English rather than spoken English. Five hours of participation in Deaf community events are required outside of class time. Students enrolled in programs other than Interpreter Technician may be able to use this course and INTP-127 to satisfy elective requirements. INTP-127 Credits: 3 American Sign Language 2 This course is a continuation of American Sign Language 1 and is designed to further provide students with knowledge of fundamental survival signs. Students also acquire an awareness of the differences between deaf and hearing cultures. This course will be taught in American Sign Language with some additional use of written English rather than spoken English. Ten hours of participation in Deaf community events are required outside of class time. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-126 with a grade of C or higher or instructor consent. INTP-128 Credits: 3 American Sign Language 3 This course is a continuation of American Sign Language 2. It is designed to build daily conversational skills and to increase cultural awareness and sensitivity. Students will refine grammatical skills and practice sentence types in guided ASL conversations and formal Credits: 3

presentations. This course will be taught in American Sign Language with some additional use of written English rather than spoken English. Fifteen hours of participation in Deaf community events are required outside of class time. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-127 with a grade of C or higher or instructor consent. INTP-129 Credits: 3 American Sign Language 4 This course is a continuation of American Sign Language 3 and is designed to broaden the topics students are able to discuss in ASL. News events, daily lives and social activities will be discussed and formal presentations will be made. Conversational proficiency is expected by the end of this course. This course will be taught in American Sign Language with some additional use of written English rather than spoken English. Twenty hours of participation in Deaf community events are required outside of class time. Prerequisite(s): Complete INTP-128 with a grade of C or higher or instructor consent. IT – Information Technology (Department 107) IT-107 Credits: 3 Social Networking and Business This course is an introduction to social media, communication and collaboration tools utilized professionally in a business environment. Students will learn to set up, use and support these tools. Emphasis will be placed on proper business communication, development of a personal resume and the implementation of a professional person using social media that supports work within the information technology field. ITDEV – IT Development (Department 152) ITDEV-110 Credits: 3 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming This course introduces the fundamental concepts of programming from an object oriented perspective. Topics include class design, simple data types, control structures, storage allocation, scope and simple data structures (arrays). Students will develop algorithms to solve programming problems and use debugging techniques to test their solutions. The course emphasizes good software engineering principles while developing fundamental programming skills in the context of a language that supports the object-oriented paradigm. Emphasis will be placed on class design, implementation and problem-solving. MATC strongly recommends that students take this course concurrently with ITDEV-117 Logic and Problem-Solving. Prerequisite(s): Complete ITDEV-117.

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