Design Crafts: Glass, Ceramics and Jewellery BA (Hons)
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Alexandra Road, Swansea

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SEP-25

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3 Years

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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Design Crafts 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 ...Read more

Design Crafts 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.This course will equip you with comprehensive knowledge, practical skills and innovative approaches to sustainable craft practices, developing critical awareness and resourcefulness to enable you to establish new responses in the evolving field of design crafts.Delivered by a team of established craft practitioners with international reputations and supported by an experienced technical team, your experience will be further enhanced by the programme of visiting lecturers and practitioners. Entrepreneurial skills are embedded in the course.

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88/101
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20th
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117th
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Jayne
21 Feb 24

The ability to work from your own initiative but having the staff there, for not just for lectures and tutoring for technical advice too. The facilities are amazing to create what..Read more

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120 Grades / Points required

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£9,250 per year

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£13,500 per year

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£13500 Per year

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University of Wales Trinity Saint David
University of Wales Trinity Saint David , Carmarthen

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) has three main campuses in southwest Wales – Swansea, Carmarthen and Lampeter –...

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University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Alexandra Road Swansea SA1 5DU United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Swansea  0.1 miles away

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