Diploma of Interior Design

There are no formal education requirements for this qualification.

To successfully complete this course, Open Colleges recommends that students:

• Be over 18 years of age;
• Have language, literacy and numeracy skills that ensures the ability to read and comprehend technical terms and communicate effectively through email. These skills are equivalent to those that would be required to successfully complete year 12;
• Have access to a modern computer with high-speed internet;
• Have basic computing skills including the ability to make a short video.

Minimum computer requirements

For 32-bit AutoCAD:

• 32-bit Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ Dual Core, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology

For 64-bit AutoCAD:

• AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology
• AMD Opteron™ with SSE2 technology
• Intel® Xeon® with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology
• Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology
• Microsoft Office 2007 or equivalent
• Broadband Internet Connection
• Minimum 8GB
• HDD- 10GB (min) available hard disc space for installation; additional free space is required during installation.
• Windows display adapter capable of 1024×768 with True Color capabilities (DirectX® 9 or DirectX 11 compliant card recommended but not required)
• DVD – CD-Rom Drive
• 1280 x 800 resolution display (1280 x 1024 recommended) with 16 – bit colour and 512 MB of V RAM

Mac OS:

• Mac OS X v 10.6.8 or v 10.7
• Multicore Intel® processor with 64-bit support

You will also be required to register for AutoCAD software, which is available free for students enrolled in an approved education institution.

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