This vocational course is excellent preparation for a career in the fashion jewellery industry as a designer, production manager, or buyer on an international stage. Real-life experience with leading fashion jewellers, retailers, designers and academics will develop your design skills, market awareness and practical jewellery and production knowledge. From haute couture to mass market, you will develop design skills and in-depth knowledge of manufacturing techniques, marketing and branding. The second year provides the opportunity to work within the industry, developing designs, prototypes and collections whilst learning professional skills.
Course structure
The course includes real-life work-based learning such as live project work, site visits, competitions, exhibitions and work placement.
Level 1 includes an introduction to learning and assessment in Higher Education.
Modules include:
Contemporary Jewellery in Fashion
Design Methods
Practical Experimentation
Contemporary Jewellery Manufacturing
Design for Collections
Related Practical Skills
Level 2 increasingly addresses issues related to employability and professional practice.
Modules include:
Fashion Jewellery: Concepts and Applications
Jewellery Skills: Design Models
Brand Identity
Major Project
Business Practice (optional)
Theorising Design (optional)
Applicants will have GCSE grade C or above in English, a portfolio of art or design, an interest in jewellery and fashion plus at least 80 points from one or more A-levels, plus three other subjects at GCSE grade. We will also consider relevant recognised vocational qualifications plus professional experience. For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
A Progression Agreement is a formal arrangement between two or more
education providers. It spells out what a learner needs to do to be
considered for a place on a named programme of study. Progression Agreements
may vary in the conditions they specify but they all aim to give guaranteed
pathways into higher education.
Advice on courses and careers:-
The Creative Way IAG team provides a specialist service for anyone
interested in finding out about courses and careers in the creative and
cultural industries. We can provide information direct to Students,
Parents/ Carers, Tutors and Careers Advisers via email, phone or organised
workshops and 1 to 1 sessions.
To find out more, visit our IAG page on this site on
http://www.creativeway.org.uk/IAG Or contact one of our career advisers: Matt Ball 07889 001764
m.ball@uel.ac.uk or Sarah
Comerford 07515 051509
s.comerford@uel.ac.uk