Design Crafts: Glass, Ceramics and Jewellery
About this course
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Design Crafts: Glass, Ceramics and Jewellery gives you the opportunity to learn the design and creative 3D-making skills you need to work professionally with glass, ceramics, and jewellery. Allowing you to discover your creative voice while developing traditional hand-making skills and contemporary approaches such as laser waterjet cutting and 3D printing.
The programme offers a diverse range of material and process practices, including ceramics, cold and kiln-formed glass processes, wood, metal, plastics, fibre glass and resins, textiles, jewellery, mould making, laser and waterjet cutting, CAD/CAM, 3D printing and scanning.
You will experience a comprehensive programme of hands-on workshop-based education, underpinned by contextual and historical studies, placements, internships and residencies.
Modules
Year One – Level 4 (Cert HE, Dip HE, BA)
Design and Make 1: Introduction to Ceramics, Glass and Jewellery (30 credits; compulsory)
Design and Make 2: 3D Thinking (30 credits; compulsory)
Professional Practice 1: Digital Era (20 credits; compulsory)
Professional Practice 2: Making Futures (20 credits; compulsory)
Ways of Perceiving (10 credits; compulsory)
Ways of Thinking (10 credits; compulsory)
Year Two – Level 5 (Dip HE, BA)
Design and Make 3: A Design Crafts Challenge (30 credits; compulsory)
Design and Make 4: Commercial Output (30 credits; compulsory)
Professional Practice 3: Commercial Challenge (20 credits; compulsory)
Professional Practice 4: Design Identities (20 credits; compulsory)
Research in Context (10 credits; compulsory)
Research in Practice (10 credits; compulsory)
Year Three – Level 6 (BA)
Advanced Creative Enquiry (20 credits; compulsory)
Independent Project (40 credits; compulsory)
Major Project (60 credits; compulsory)
Assessment methods
The three main modes of assessment used on this programme are:
Studio Projects – work undertaken to fulfil the demands of a given or student generated brief. Projects are set to examine the student’s abilities to master the integration of new design principles and skills to his / her design practice. Studio projects may be set and take place in a variety of forms and over a range of durations, and include activity within the glass workshops, CAD studios as well as traditional design studios. Students may be required to present a variety of types of work for assessment such as; portfolios, sketchbooks and project journals, presentation boards, three-dimensional models, material samples and artefacts.
Written Assignments – work is undertaken by the student in his/her own time. Written assignments may take the form of an illustrated paper or report. In both cases, the student is expected to demonstrate critical insight and proficiency in articulating the results of practice or research-based assignment.
Seminar Presentations – this form of assessment requires the student to demonstrate conceptual understanding and evaluate the rigour and validity of published research. Seminars may take the form of individual and/or group presentations to peers and other professional groups.
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Alexandra Road, Swansea
Swansea College of Art
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