This Applied Art course focuses on the high-quality craft skills needed to be a professional maker. Develop your material and design skills through Ceramics, Metal, Jewellery and mixed media.

Students will:

• be able to understand the importance of high-quality making, originality and how to generate personal responses to materials and processes.
• develop creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial skills
• be able to combine their conceptual and technical skills in applied arts with the professional skills needed to be a successful maker.
• develop interpersonal skills through collaborative projects and teamwork.

YEAR 1 (LEVEL 4)

Introduces you to the breadth of materials and techniques within the Applied Arts, where you have the opportunity to work across all the material areas, experimenting with glass, ceramics, metal and mixed media.

MODULES: 

• History and Context
• Creative Futures 1
• Visual Communication
• Material Exploration
• Craft Processes
• Material and Language

YEAR 2 (LEVEL 5)

Expands your making skills within your main material choice, developing a depth of knowledge and understanding about materials and craft skills and allowing you advance your own creative style. The key professional skills of understanding market, publicity and costings are also developed through practical projects.

MODULES:

• Critical Thinking
• Creative Futures: Making a Living
• Extended Practice (Applied Arts)
• Art Practice
• Practice in Context
• Specialist Study (Applied Arts)

YEAR 3 (LEVEL 6)

Allows you to realise your ideas in the direction of your choice, with students developing their own individual themes to produce collections, demonstrating high quality making skills and innovative design solutions.

MODULES: 

• Dissertation
• Creative Futures: Professional Practice
• Negotiated Practice
• Applied Art Degree Project