Jewellery Futures MA

Master

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    October

This course is no longer accepting applications for 2018 entry. The next entry is 2019
The best contemporary jewellery combines excellent craftsmanship with strong conceptual and critical thinking. This stimulating course will expand your approach to jewellery practice and challenge you to consider how collaboration and interdisciplinary projects can shape future ways of working and making.
Why study MA Jewellery Futures at Middlesex University?
At Middlesex we take a highly practical and critical approach to jewellery that ensures you spend the majority of your postgraduate study researching and making. This combination of in-depth analysis and hands-on experience will enable you to draw on a diverse range of expertise and resources while questioning and developing your practice in a contemporary context for a stimulating and successful career.
Our course features state-of-the-art facilities with dedicated studio space in our £80 million art and design building for each of our MA students to ensure we cater for a diverse range of interests and ambitions. With opportunities to collaborate with students from across the Arts and Creative Industries Faculty, you'll be part of a supportive and interdisciplinary environment of artists who are shaping the future of creative industries worldwide with their award-winning, innovative work.
Course Highlights
World-class teaching from some of the UK's leading practitioners, curators and artists who have substantial experience and successful careers in crafts
Exhibition opportunities on and off-site to create networking opportunities, build industry links and explore new ways of working and creating
Direct access to London's art and craft world with valuable industry links to a range of galleries, high-profile creators, libraries and collections

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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The Burroughs, NW4 4BT

Start date

OctoberEnrolment now open

About this course

UK & EU
International
How to apply
Qualifications
We normally require a good honours degree 2:2 or above, or equivalent qualification, in an appropriate subject
We also consider candidates with other relevant qualifications
Those without formal qualifications need to demonstrate three years' relevant work experience and the ability to study at postgraduate level.
Eligibility
UK/EU and international students are eligible to apply for this course.

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Approach
  • Teaching
  • Design
  • Exhibition
  • Art
  • Project
  • Industry
  • Skills and Training
  • Futures
  • Developing
  • Interaction
  • Jewellery
  • Critical Debates
  • Advanced Research
  • Interests
  • Abilities
  • Ambitions
  • Human sociability
  • Engagement

Course programme

Course content

What will you study on the MA Jewellery Futures?

You will be encouraged to look at jewellery practice as more than an isolated solo activity, considering the anthropological, sociological, economic, political and geographic aspects that influence the field. You will explore how jewellery underpins and enables human sociability, engagement and interaction, and how it comes to impact other disciplines.

What will you gain?

You will further develop your practical skills in the design and creation of jewellery. By the end of the course you will have an understanding of the different social and cultural contexts in which jewellery is made, as well as awareness of historical and contemporary styles. You will have the experience and knowledge to forge your own path in jewellery, whether working artistically or commercially within the industry.

You can find more information about this course in the programme specification. Optional modules are not offered on every course. If we have insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, or there are staffing changes which affect the teaching, it may not be offered. If an optional module will not run, we will advise you after the module selection period when numbers are confirmed, or at the earliest time that the programme team make the decision not to run the module, and help you choose an alternative module.

Modules

Developing Practice – Term 1 (30 credits)

You will explore a chosen area of jewellery in a contemporary context while enhancing your technical skills. You'll be able to employ a variety of reflective methods to develop your own creative research proposal with the advanced communication skills to present, discuss and evaluate your work effectively.

Critical Debates – Term 1 (30 credits)

You’ll explore the key concepts, ideas, issues and research methodologies relating to the practice and theory of jewellery. With particular focus on the cultural and social contexts within your chosen discipline, you'll produce a portfolio of critical responses to contemporary debates in research and professional practice.

Advanced Research – Term 2 (30 credits)

You will examine a diverse range of advanced approaches to jewellery research using both historical and contemporary sources. You’ll explore the work of practitioners and scholars in your chosen area and the contemporary research problems they face. By the end of the module you’ll produce an illustrated research survey.

Jewellery Futures – Term 2 (30 credits)

Major Project – Term 3 (60 credits)

The final module is an opportunity for you to bring together the knowledge and skills that you have acquired during the course and apply them to a significant project encompassing jewellery futures. Using research methods, concepts and processes previously explored in the course you will evaluate relationships between theory and practice. By the end of this module you will produce a portfolio or public exhibition of a substantial body of practice work supported by critical and reflective written work.

You can find more information about this course in the programme specification. Optional modules are not offered on every course. If we have insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, or there are staffing changes which affect the teaching, it may not be offered. If an optional module will not run, we will advise you after the module selection period when numbers are confirmed, or at the earliest time that the programme team make the decision not to run the module, and help you choose an alternative module.

Jewellery Futures MA

Price on request