Please click on an underlined module code for more details. This module aims to provide students with an overview of legal requirements, and with knowledge and skills relating to occupational health and safety in an engineering environment. This module develops skills in identifying gemstones and their properties, as well as taking protective measures during manufacture or repair of gem set jewellery. This module enables students to develop a cultural frame of reference exploring the theories, concepts, and history of design of the 2oth Century. This module enables students to draw analytically, as well as from observation and imagination.
Emphasis is on the use of black and white media.
This module enables students to apply the basic principles and methodologies of design to jewellery and small scale 3D design. This module develops hand skills appropriate to jewellery manufacture. This module develops skills in drawing round and square wire, round chenier, jewellery items from wire and chenier, and finishing and polishing. This module enables students to identify contemporary developments in design including venues for viewing significant works. This module develops skills in the application of treatments designed to alter the surface appearance of metal jewellery items.