BA (Hons) Design Crafts (Ceramics and Glass)

Bachelor's degree

In Hatfield

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Hatfield

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This degree involves a practical workshop programme, establishing and refining your understanding of the tactile qualities and properties of materials and how they can be manipulated to express your ideas. In the First Year you’ll learn approaches to designing and making across a range of 2D and 3D media. Then, in the Second Year, you’ll focus your interests in order to reach the high level of refinement necessary for the professional marketplace. Our students produce a richly diverse range of artefacts, such as tableware, experimental objects, sculptures, architectural pieces, tiles and conceptual pieces for exhibition or commission.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Hatfield (Hertfordshire)
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De Havilland Campus, Mosquito Way

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

Why choose this course?
Contemporary Design Crafts Ceramics and Glass degree encourages fresh ideas, inventive use of materials and techniques, and awareness of contemporary markets.
You establish and refine your interests in the field of ceramics and glass to reach the high level of skills demanded by the professional marketplace.
Placements develop a versatile understanding of the workplace, establishing our graduates as contemporaries in a competitive professional market.

96 UCAS points
A Level CCC - Including formal or informal qualifications in Art or Design

Ranked 10th in the country in the design and crafts section of the Guardian's 2017 University League Tables.

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This centre's achievements

2020

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The average rating is higher than 3.7

More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months

This centre has featured on Emagister for 6 years

Subjects

  • Design
  • Ceramics
  • Glass

Course programme

What will I study?

The course combines studio projects and practical workshop based sessions, where ideas and making are integrated. Students have a studio, where design development, group tutorials, crits and presentations take place. Modules combine lectures, workshops, seminars, and tutorials, and encourage a high level of debate and interaction. Students are encouraged to see their learning as an interactive experience, in which they play an active part, so that they emerge as resourceful and independent professionals, committed to pursuing their ambitions beyond graduation. The degree is staffed by practicing professionals, and Visiting Lecturers who regularly contribute specialist expertise.

In the First Year you'll learn approaches to designing and making across a range of two and three-dimensional media in the fields of textiles, jewellery and ceramics and glass.
Second Year students choose to focus their interests within the ceramics and glass medium and approach, enabling them to reach the high level of refinement necessary for the professional marketplace. We are offering a balance between focused specialist study and experimental mixed media approaches.

The workshops are the focus of the student experience our students are using the latest laser cutting and rapid prototyping equipment as well as the traditional equipped workshop to develop their practice. Progressive studio projects also provide an initial framework for individual research and creative interpretation, to establish your unique identity.

This results in the production of a richly diverse range of artifacts - such as tableware, experimental objects, sculptures, architectural pieces, tiles for interiors/ exteriors and conceptual pieces for exhibition or commission. The emphasis is on questioning function and tradition to arrive at fresh, lively alternatives for a sophisticated market.

Level 4

Module
  • Introduction to Core Design Skills
  • Introduction to Design Principles
  • Professional Design Studio (1)
  • Design Theory (L4)
Level 5

Module
  • Core Design Skills (2)
  • Professional Design Studio (2)
  • Design Theory (L5)
  • Design Principles (C&G)
  • Year Abroad
  • Professional Work Experience 30: Design
Level 6

Module
  • Year Abroad
  • Professional Design Studio (3)
  • Major Degree Project (C&G)
  • The Degree Essay (L6)
  • Sandwich Year (Creative Arts)

Additional information

UCAS code - W700

EU Students Fee 

Full time - £13450 for the 2021/2022 academic year
Part time - £1680 per 15 credits for the 2021/2022 academic year
International Students Fee 

Full time - £13450 for the 2021/2022 academic year
Part time - £1680 per 15 credits for the 2021/2022 academic year

BA (Hons) Design Crafts (Ceramics and Glass)

£ 9,250 VAT inc.