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Foundation Degree - FD
Coleg Gwent
Full Time
Sep 2026
2 Year
https://enrolment.coleggwent.ac.uk/
The Artist Designer Makers Foundation Degree will teach you how to creatively develop your own style, reflecting the imaginative way you see and communicate with the ever-changing world. The FD Artist Designer Maker is a course that has making at its heart. You will gain hands-on experience with materials from metals, glass and ceramics through to wood and textiles. Using traditional techniques along with the latest technology to create new and original ways of making. You will develop your own unique style and consider where your work sits within creative practice. You will learn from professional practicing artists, designers and makers, sharing their passion and acquiring new skills. Ceramics - Modelling, throwing, mould making, casting, firing and glazing Metal - Small metalsmithing with copper, brass and silver, welding, soldering, and enamelling Wood - Joinery, marquetry Glass - Casting, fusing, slumping and painting Textiles - Stitch, print and construction Digital fabrication - 3D printing, laser cutting, 3D digital modelling, scanning, digital stitch, digital print textiles You’ll learn to work independently and creatively in a variety of contexts, as we support your enthusiasm to design, manufacture, market and sell your own work. We’ll support you in developing professional skills in every assignment, including creative problem solving, project management, working to a brief and completing work to a deadline. Through continuous self-reflection, you will develop and identify personal strengths, helping you to recognise transferable skills and how they’ll be useful for future employment.
Start your first year with workshops that introduce you to the materials, processes and equipment you'll need for creative practice – from ceramics, wood, metal and glass to CAD applications and digital fabrication. You'll also explore the key concepts in practising art and design through making.
This module aims to develop students' core academic research skills including locating sources, evaluating credibility, and analysing information. It will provide the foundations from which students will cultivate their confidence to engage in theoretical discourse and idea-driven dialogues which will be required throughout their undergraduate studies.
This module aims to introduce you to the principles of Interdisciplinary working: collaborative working, critical thinking and reflection. Projects within the module will challenge you to work with another discipline to explore a societal and cultural theme or challenge.
In this module you'll move outside your comfort zone – taking risks and experimenting with material process and new technologies. You'll develop your skills in key areas – from ceramics, wood and metal through to 3D printing, laser cutting and Arduino. Through peer critiques, themed seminars and tutorials, you'll reflect on your artistic strengths and interests and present your research back to the group.
The 21st Century Challenges module builds upon the introduction to Interdisciplinary problem-solving developed at level 4 to continue to refine, and begin to apply, your skillsets through real-world projects and live briefs. Projects will tackle 21st Century Challenges to develop your leadership, collaboration, future literacy/critical thinking skillsets.
The Real-World Contexts module challenges you to apply the situated awareness and future-thinking skills to deploy your own practice in the creation or promotion of value for a variety of external stakeholders and communities.
The Research Proposal offers you an opportunity to strengthen your research skills, consolidate your research experience and orientate your level 6 contribution around an enquiry of your choosing that is inspired by your learning across all modules at level 4 and 5. This research proposal will be used to continue your personal and professional development at level 6 where you will identify a route for your own enquiry.
This module is designed to help you further your creative practice. Depending on where you want to take it, you could base your work around your professional development or opt to enter it in competitions. You may decide to refine your studio practice – using a self-directed brief to lay the foundations of a large body of work, to complete during your final year.
The module aims to support your readiness in developing your unique professional career. It will embed attributes reflective of the requirements of real-world practice aligned to your specialist discipline.
Your practice is underpinned by your knowledge. Demonstrate your research and analysis skills in your final research submission, where you explore ideas in both written and practical forms.
Foundation Year
Students will study foundation year modules.
48 Grades/points required
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