BA (Hons) Design Crafts (Jewellery)

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.

The Design Crafts Jewellery degree at the University of Hertfordshire explores in the First Year approaches to designing and making across a range of two and three-dimensional media in the fields of textiles, jewellery and ceramics and glass. In the Second Year students choose to focus their interests within the jewellery 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.

This results in the production of a richly diverse range of artifacts - such as experimental and fine jewellery, accessories, objects 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.

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.

With a variety of live projects and competition projects the course provides you with a confident start to your professional career; you will evolve from learning basic skills in your pathway through to a position where you are an independent creative thinker capable of making an effective contribution in the sector as a designer maker.

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 (JEWL)
• Year Abroad
• Professional Work Experience 30: Design

Level 6

Module

• Sandwich Year (Creative Arts)
• Professional Design Studio (3)
• Major Degree Project (JEWL)
• The Degree Essay (L6)
• Year Abroad