: Ceramic Technology : Kiln Firing Certificate in Continuous Professional Development

pg00002 EDUCATIONAL AIMS OF THE PROGRAMME The 3Dimensional Design Programme comprises of three sepárate Awards which are: BA(Hons) 3D Design: Crafts Award BA(Hons) 3D Design: Ceramics Award BA(Hons) 3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories Award Common Aims For all three Awards we aim to: • Provide a rich, stimulating design experience, which prioritises your personal and professional growth, enabling you to realise yourfull potential within contemporary craft/design practice. • Enable you to develop your intellectual, theoretical, and practical skills within your own practice as a designer/maker. • Créate an exciting and creatively challenging framework in which you can confidently develop as an independent maker within your chosen specialist área. • Provide an encouraging, supportive and rigorous learning environment that provides professional opportunities, preparing you for lifelong learning within a competitive global environment. • Enhance your employability by developing your ability to understand and adapt your creative skills as a professional designer/maker, or in a variety of careers, which exploits the transferable attributes of an art and design education. • Provide a flexible learning programme for a wide range of students with diverse experience, qualifications, origins and abilities. Specific Aims Within the Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories Award we aim to: • Provide specialist technical skills relating to aspects of body adornment and fine metalworking, from the development of original design concepts through to finely crafted finished work. • Encourage a broad creative approach to silversmithing and jewellery making, either as a 'one-off maker or a designer within mainstream jewellery industries. • Provide links with jewellery manufacturing companies as well as individual makers, gallery curators and collectors. • Develop an awareness of social, cultural and theoretical issues, within the context of contemporary jewellery and fashion accessory design practice. </div>