Jewellery and Silversmithing - Design for Industry (Level 6 | Top-up) - BA (Hons)

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  • The workshops should be more often. There are many shops in the city but I am not that much of a shopping person. The clubs and societies are so useful.
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Bachelor's degree

In Birmingham

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Birmingham

  • Duration

    1 Year

This leading design course is a one-year top-up, shaping contemporary designers for the jewellery and silversmithing industry. Emphasising new technology, it builds on existing traditional skills to enhance your potential.

Whether you want to work as a designer within a company or as a creative entrepreneur, our dedicated staff will help you develop a successful career.

Live projects give you a chance to test your skills and creativity, and exhibit work with the chance to be awarded student prizes. You will create several products throughout the course to develop your portfolio.

You’ll use the latest CAD software packages and work towards a project to design, develop and launch a new product range.

Visits to trade fairs, exhibitions and companies give you an understanding of commercial manufacturing environments and help you decide which aspect of the jewellery trade you want to work in.

Our students benefit from outstanding industry links and you’ll also have the chance to enter awards and competitions to help you get noticed.

Graduate Clive Taylor won the gold award in ‘Technological Innovation’ at the Goldsmiths’ Craft and Design Council Awards ceremony for his elegant LED desk lamp. Made from sterling silver and operated by proximity sensors and a mobile phone app, it’s an example of our student innovations. Clive now creates elegant functional objects incorporating traditional silversmithing and modern technology.

You’ll study at our internationally-renowned School of Jewellery, in the heart of Birmingham’s famous Jewellery Quarter where much of today’s jewellery is still made. The historical facade of our Vittoria Street building conceals a contemporary environment including workshops, a specialist library, an atrium gallery and exhibition space.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Birmingham (West Midlands)
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82-86 Vittoria St, B1 3PA

Start date

On request

About this course

Focusing on new technology but building on existing traditional skills, you’ll receive the support, facilities and expertise to enhance your jewellery design potential.

Our graduates are highly successful and go on to work for prestigious names such as Tiffany & Co, Cartier and De Beers, as well as setting up their own successful design businesses.

OpportUNIty: Student Jobs on Campus ensures that our students are given a first opportunity to fill many part-time temporary positions within the University. This allows you to work while you study with us, fitting the job around your course commitments. By taking part in the scheme, you will gain valuable experiences and employability skills, enhancing your prospects in the job market.

Minimum overall score of 6.0, with 6.0 in writing and no less than 5.5 in the remaining three skills.
Students will be required to have successfully completed both Level 4 and Level 5 in a relevant and compatible course and achieved 240 credits.
Students will be required to have successfully completed a relevant and compatible course e.g FdA in Jewellery & Silversmithing and achieved 240 credits.
Students will be required to have successfully completed in a relevant and compatible course and achieved 240 credits.

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5.0
23/05/2019
About the course: The workshops should be more often. There are many shops in the city but I am not that much of a shopping person. The clubs and societies are so useful.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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Subjects

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Design
  • CAD
  • Technology
  • Industry
  • Trade
  • Business
  • Silversmithing
  • Jewellery
  • CAM Acquisition

Course programme

Year one

In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits):
  • Advanced Digital Technology
  • Design for Production
  • Graduate Entrepreneurship
  • Major Project
Course Structure

The course is assessed through coursework. We feel this best mirrors the way you’d work in the real world and so better prepares you for a career in the design industry.

The course enables you to begin developing a collection of work to start a business with or towards creating a professional and relevant portfolio for your intended career.
You’ll develop a strong portfolio of work - each practical module leads to you creating a jewellery product, ready for market, constructed from precious metals or other materials.

You’ll also have the chance to enter competitions like the annual Charles Green awards, which is organised in partnership with the Birmingham-based jeweller. Marketing and Design Manager at Charles Green, Phillip Beale, is one of our graduates. He launched the competition after deciding he would like to give something back to the University and help current students.

The final stage of the course is an exhibition of work to promote you to future employers and industry professionals.

Additional information

UCAS Code: W790

International students
Award: BA (Hons) Starting: Sep 2021
Mode - Full Time
Duration - 1 year
Fees - £13,200 per year

Jewellery and Silversmithing - Design for Industry (Level 6 | Top-up) - BA (Hons)

Price on request