On this established, hands-on course you can explore the full spectrum of three-dimensional practices from studio ceramics and jewellery to products and furniture, graduating with an impressive body of work.
You will have access to spacious specialist workshops in wood, metals, ceramics, polymers and digital technology, working alongside fellow students in a collaborative art-school environment.
Your workshop practice is integrated with historical and critical studies, so you will explore critical, conceptual, ethical and environmental issues as well as the role of design within a social and cultural contexts.
The staff team are practising designers, makers, artists and researchers, bringing their real-world expertise to your studies.
Live projects, case studies and exhibitions enable you to place your work in real-world contexts.
Students from the course have gone on to life-long creative careers winning international acclaim and working with global brands and NGOs, exhibiting at leading galleries and museums around the world and pioneering new approaches to making and material culture.
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Year 1:
Modules
Making, Materiality and Processes
People, Places and Context
Why Make? What Sort of Maker Am I?
Year 2:
Materials and Process: Professional Designing and Making
Live and Engaged Making
The Shape of Things: Design and Craft in Historical and Critical Perspective
Option module*
Year 3:
Positioning and Establishing Practice
Expansion and Resolution of Practice
Extended Essay
Employment demand for arts graduates
The British Academy has compiled a report (May 2020) quantifying the demand for arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) skills in the workplace. It helps to answer the legitimate question of what the economic return is on undertaking a degree, both in time and money.
According to the report:
As arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates progress through the first ten years of their career they are able make strong progress up the career ladder into roles attracting higher salaries
Arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates are employed in some of the fastest growing sectors including financial services, education, social work, the media and creative industries
Of the ten fastest growing sectors, eight employ more graduates from AHSS than other disciplines
This makes AHSS graduates at the heart of some of the most exciting, productive, largest and fastest-growing sectors of the UK economy.
Future skills demand
According to the report:
With the challenges the world is facing – climate change, global pandemics, the growth of populism – the UK needs the insights of the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) as much as those from science, technology and engineering (STEM)
Evidence within the report shows that Arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates are central to these challenges and changes – they will be vital in giving us the tools to examine and explain human behaviour, understand how society functions, learn from the past and apply those lessons to the present, and analyse the drivers and implications of a changing world and how different countries, places and cultures interact
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
