Glass and Ceramics with Foundation Year
Bachelor's degree
In Telford
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Weymouth College
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Canterbury College
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Cambridge Online Education
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City College Norwich
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University for the Creative Arts
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Canterbury College
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Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Telford
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Duration
4 Years
The BA (Hons) Glass and Ceramics course encourages students to develop approaches to practice based on ‘thinking through making’ where learning takes place through direct, responsive engagement with materials and processes, combining tacit knowledge of skills and craft with curiosity, speculation and reflection.
The Foundation year prepares students for university level study. Successful completion of our Foundation course permits access to any of our Art or Digital Media BA (Hons) or BDes (Hons) degree courses, which include Fashion, Fine Art, Furniture Design, Glass and Ceramics, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design, Paint and Print Making, Photography, Product Design, Sculpture and Environmental Art — The Foundation year begins with modules aimed at providing transferable study skills and then, in the second semester, gives students the opportunity to study more specialist modules, with a focus on various aspects of Arts and Digital Media.
The course at Wolverhampton is an intensive studio based programme, supported by technical workshops, theoretical engagement and a wide range of study visits and opportunities to promote and exhibit your work. The programme aims to support media specialist practitioners in glass and ceramics alongside students who want to work across media and subject disciplines and forge new relationships between conceptual and material approaches to practice.
Initially students are given opportunities to engage with materials and processes associated with glass and ceramics alongside related activities of print, drawing/image making and digital manufacture. Increasingly students are encouraged to adopt more personal, informed and responsive approaches that will allow for diverse practice across a wide spectrum of craft, design and art contexts.
The course aims to:
• Provide you with an exciting and diverse introduction to contemporary Glass and Ceramics practice.
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About this course
This course will give you the necessary skills to pursue the huge range of exciting career opportunities associated with Contemporary Visual Arts Practice. For many Glass and Ceramics graduates the ultimate ambition is to become a successful artist, designer or maker. The Glass and Ceramics course is designed to support students in achieving this goal and indeed, graduates from the University of Wolverhampton are now exhibiting and selling their work and designs nationally and internationally on a regular basis. The next step towards achieving this ambition is to undertake a post graduate or Masters qualification and students from this course are very successful in making applications at this level. The course aims to provide students with the practical, theoretical and promotional skills to support such career choices.
The Glass and Ceramics course also aims to support and develop students’ vocational awareness and provides opportunities for educational placements and professional practice. As a result a number of students each year successfully apply to postgraduate teaching courses and many School of Art and Design graduates are now teaching in the regions’ schools and colleges. Glass and Ceramics graduates are also working in museums and galleries as curators, educationalists, workshop facilitators, archivists and technicians, having taken specialist postgraduate courses in these fields.
2019 Entry
DD from A level
BTEC QCF Extended Diploma grade PPP, BTEC QCF Diploma grade MP
UAL Extended Diploma in Art & Design grade P, UAL Diploma in Art & Design grade M
Pass Access to HE Diploma (Full Award)
If you've got other qualifications or relevant experience, please contact The Gateway for further advice before applying.
International entry requirements and application guidance can be found here
Other Requirements
Applicants will also be required to provide satisfactory reference. Those meeting the entry requirements may be shortlisted for a Portfolio Review.
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Subjects
- Media
- Glass
- Art
- Ceramics
- Materials
- Design
Course programme
The BA Hons Glass and Ceramics course is assessed on 100% coursework.
The curriculum is delivered through a series of projects which will give you the opportunity to develop making and designing skills, conceptual ideas, contextual knowledge and understanding and experience of live industry briefs/ external projects in the public domain.
The course aims to:
• Provide you with an exciting and diverse introduction to contemporary Glass and Ceramics practice.
• Support you to acquire specialist knowledge and practical experience of working in Glass and Ceramics.
• Encourage you to test and explore different approaches to practice and to critically evaluate the relationship between idea, media, method and outcome.
• Enable you to develop an individually negotiated practice informed by a relevant theoretical and contextual framework.
• Produce informed independent and reflective practitioners who can adapt their knowledge, understanding and skills for a variety of professional contexts.
Studio and workshop culture is core to our courses and you will be encouraged to become part of the art and design community through time spent working in the studios, workshops and labs available to students across the week.
Our course is designed to provide you with the best possible creative education centred on employability and student support. At each level two year-long modules allow you to experience and engage with projects of increasing complexity and varied timescales that reflect the breadth and flexibility of the commercial design world.
Teaching is focussed in (though not limited to) a studio environment in which tutor-student engagement and peer-to-peer learning supports a creative, experimental, professional and independent approach to development from Level 4 onwards. Teaching, supervised practice and independent exploration also takes place in well-equipped material workshops and computer labs. Throughout the course students are encouraged to explore, develop and build material and technical competencies towards developing their own rich, challenging and distinct visual language as artists and designers.
Why not check out what our students got up to for their final projects at our annual Degree Show 2018
Glass and Ceramics with Foundation Year
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Weymouth College
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Canterbury College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
Cambridge Online Education
Course Online£ 3,299 -
City College Norwich
Course OnlinePrice on request -
University for the Creative Arts
Postgraduate Online£ 9,250 + VAT -
Canterbury College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
South Worcestershire College
HND OnlinePrice on request
See all