Undergraduate Pathway in Jewellery

Why study this pathway programme?

• The School of Jewellery is one of the largest in the world and is located in Birmingham’s working Jewellery Quarter, where a significant amount of British jewellery is still made today.
• The School offers over 125 years of expertise, and the Assay Office is home to one of the only Gemmology degrees in the world.
• Overseas trip opportunities offer an international perspective to many of the University’s jewellery courses.

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Stage 1: University Foundation

Modules

• Creative Workshop*
  
• Critical Thinking*
  
• Extended Media Experimentation
  
• Information Research, Recording and Responding In Art & Design
  
• Interactive Learning Skills and Communication*
  
• Interactive Learning Skills and Communication & Preparation and Progression in Art and Design
  
• Knowledge & Understanding Of Creative Practice In Art & Design
  
• Mass Communication*
  
• Media Experimentation in Art and Design
  
• Personal Combined Experimental Studies In Art & Design
  

* Additional four modules in the three-semester programme.

Modules for Gemmology & Horology

• Interactive Learning Skills and Communication 3
• Numerical Techniques 1
• Physics 1
• Physics 2
• ICT Skills
• Information Research, Recording and Responding in Art and Design
• Critical Thinking
• Numerical Skills 2

Stage 2: First Year Degree

Birmingham City University Degree Pathways

• BSc (Hons) Gemmology and Jewellery Studies
  
• BA (Hons) Horology
  
• BA (Hons) International Jewellery Business
  
• BA (Hons) Jewellery and Objects

Special entry requirements

Students must submit a portfolio if they are entering the two-semester Art and Design programme. Students must also submit a portfolio if they do not have an academic qualification in Art and Design. (No portfolio required for BSc (Hons) Gemmology and Jewellery Studies / BA (Hons) International Jewellery Business)

Important:

All students accessing the 3D workshops, plaster room, glass room, water-jet cutting room and the kiln room will need to wear safety footwear that has toe caps. Such footwear can be purchased from any safety footwear provider – including Sports Direct – and can be as cheap as £12. The shoes should be S1P and comply with EN 20345.

There is no long-term storage facility for personal items in the workshops, so students are advised to bring the safety footwear with them each day they are accessing the workshops.