Jewellery and Related Products Birmingham City University

Overview

What's covered in the course?

The focus of this course is very much on developing your entrepreneurial spirit and helping you become the designer you want to be.

You will use a variety of materials, manufacturing techniques and processes.

The scope for design is very broad and builds on knowledge in the area of personal ornaments, body signification and decorative metal objects.

There are affinities with industrial design, fashion design, fine art and sculpture and content is often informed by philosophy, conceptualisation and critical theory.

Project-based activities will develop creative, design and making skills and enhance your professional skills. You will develop concepts and products, analyse problems and reflect on the relationships between personal objectives, cultural values, market identities, prototyping techniques and new technologies.

You will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to your own research and advanced creative activity, alongside exhibiting originality in the application of knowledge.

Enhancing your employability skills

Our course philosophy encourages your individual enquiry and innovation. 

Modules are structured to enable progressive identification of assessable outcomes throughout, and require research based engagement with creative practice to enable you to make choices, solve problems and define your individual direction.  

This practice progressively leads to ownership, independence and employability. We incorporate activities, which involve you as active learner.

The Jewellery and Related Products programme is offered at Birmingham City University.

We embrace a high, professional level of excellence appropriate to the industry and area of focus for each student. 

Excellence is demonstrated in artistic integrity, a self-directed and ambitious design project at Master of Art level. 

Professional practice and employability skills are demonstrated in team projects and by accessing external audience appreciation. 

In all of our activities we celebrate and foster innovation and entrepreneurial enterprise in an international context.