Semester Four

This course prepares the student to develop the ability to design and become familiar with various techniques and factors involved  in modelling and fabrication, as well as the choice of material for a particular jewellery item.

Semester Four

This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical issues involved in jewellery making. The studio activity will examine a variety of materials with a focus on the nature and characteristics of metal and its translation through heat into three-dimensional forms.

Semester Four

This course is designed to equip students with extensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the various casting processes in jewellery making.

Semester Four

This course is designed to introduce students to the various coating processes and how they are applied to the making of jewellery.

Semester Four

In this course, students will examine the basic metallurgical properties of non-ferrous metals used in the making of jewellery; gold, silver, copper, and platinum and the changes that take place during the working and heating of these metals.

Semester Four

The course will also expose students to commercial 3-D modelling tools for jewellery designing as well as combining 3-D modelling techniques with computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) capabilities to ensure that jewellery objects or products are manufactured as modelled.

Semester Four

This course seeks to inculcate into students, the zeal and determination required in identifying, organising, and starting a new business in design and design-related areas. The course provides a theoretical and practical understanding of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behaviour within a variety of organizational contexts. Starting a business is not for the faint-hearted and students will be presented with some of the factors like government, background and education, research, role models and finances all come together to contribute to creation of a new venture.

Semester Four

In this course, students will be encouraged to use any of the idea generation methods they have been taught, to produce detailed object models and designs from system requirements. Students will be called upon to identify  how the design will be used and the design expanded into full behavioural designs. Students are then called upon to expand or evaluate  a design and make it ready for implementation and construction of a designs that is based on a best possible solution.