StudyQA — Master: Jewellery — Metropolitan University (Page 13)

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This intensive taught course helps you as design professionals and graduates to deepen your skills and experience for the jewellery industry and related fields with the support of leading international contemporary designers and academics. Our permanent staff include award-winning designers and makers such as Mah Rana and Simone ten Hompel. The School of Design has the widest range of specialist facilities in Europe for jewellery processes, including a digital manufacturing centre.

The course aims to foster advanced practical and creative design skills relevant to jewellery production. You will be encouraged to develop an individual design philosophy to sustain a portfolio of design practice. Evaluating the local and global language of jewellery and fashion design, and the opportunities available, you will consider ways of engaging new audience and product opportunities so that you can begin to develop a sustainable career. International study trips contribute a greater depth of understanding of the different creative platforms open to jewellers.

The University's unique location on the East London City fringe provides access to a dynamic creative community. Most members of the teaching staff are practising artists, designers and craftspeople and we enjoy the support of many high-profile creatives and manufacturers in the field. The MA Jewellery course is an educational partner of London Jewellery Week, the industrys foremost annual international platform.

Issues of sustainability and social responsibilities in design are explored together within the territory of new industrial opportunities. We emphasise the notion of collaboration across design disciplines leading to personal innovation in thought and design language. Many alumni establish their own practices and work collaboratively across the art and design sector worldwide. Live projects and competition wins (last year a major competition win with international ethical jewellery brand CRED), lead to national press coverage for students and the launch of their professional career.

The course structure comprises a range of modules, but the main vehicle for learning is a series of projects, often with external partners, that change annually. Projects are undertaken within one of a number of design Studios that set a theme for the design work over the academic year, very like a commercial practice. Each Studio runs a number of projects, which offer you a choice of an extraordinary range of research interests, product types, materials, processes, and cultural and theoretical contexts. Each Studio is lead by an experienced designer/tutor who sets a specific agenda. They all share a commitment to contemporary design and its global and local contexts, a passion for the broad sweep of current art and design thinking, and a desire to test the premises of what jewellery is, or can be, in the 21stCentury both practically and theoretically.

Students completing the MA undertake a substantial personal project based upon their design and research project work in the design studio, or emerging from one of the thematic areas or a combination of fields. You will select an area of study, undertake appropriate research, develop your work through investigative processes, formulate your own argument or theoretical position, and produce an independent and coherent body of work. The major project challenges you to sustain a substantial and serious study of a topic or field of interest which will test your creative ambition through your control of its direction and substance within a framework of critical reflection, supported by and measured against an established area of scholarship.

Successful applicants normally hold an Honours degree within design and have a relevant design portfolio. Those with relevant professional qualifications and/or extensive professional design experience will also be considered. English Language Requirements IELTS band: 6.5 IMPORTANT NOTE: Since April 2014 the ETS tests (including TOEFL and TOEIC) are no longer accepted for Tier 4 visa applications to the United Kingdom. The university might still accept these tests to admit you to the university, but if you require a Tier 4 visa to enter the UK and begin your degree programme, these tests will not be sufficient to obtain your Visa. The IELTS test is most widely accepted by universities and is also accepted for Tier 4 visas to the UK- learn more.