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Courses & timetables

Admission requirements

[BDVA]

6, 240 2.0
Full-time for two years
Starts February (August intake subject to interest)
CA2367
Mt Albert campus

Applications for this programme have closed for Semester 2, 2012.

NZ$ 5433

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Programme summary

Explore ceramics and casting, contemporary jewellery, digitial technologies, furniture design, precious metal working and metal working. Learn in a multidisciplinary environment, make a range of objects in fully equipped workshop facilities and be inspired by award-winning lecturers.

Become immersed in the world of decorative, functional and sculptural objects. As a diploma student, you’ll be enrolled in the Bachelor of Design and Visual Arts (Contemporary Craft). At the end of your second year, you may be entitled to exit with the diploma qualification. If, at a later stage, you decide to complete the degree, you can re-join the third year any time.

Highlights

• Emphasis on practical design projects: through experimental making you explore contemporary jewellery, furniture design, metal working and precious metal working, and digital technologies in a multi-disciplinary studio environment.
• Excellent facilities: some of the best-equipped workshop facilities for tertiary students of craft in New Zealand, digital milling and laser cutting facilities, and computer labs that come complete with digital drafting and modelling tools, desktop publishing, photo manipulation and web development software.
• Field trips, studio visits, group exhibitions and collaborative projects, and studio critiques and visits from guest lecturers.
• Public exhibition of your work in our student galleries.
• Lecturers are award-winning practitioners and experienced technicians who are recognised, both nationally and internationally as leaders in the development and education of contemporary jewellers and object makers.

 

Portfolio requirements

All applicants must submit with their application a portfolio of work that demonstrates their ability within their chosen major or within a variety of art, design or related media.

The portfolio should comprise 15-20 reproductions of their recent best work and may be submitted as colour photographs, digital files on CD or DVD (.jpegs must not be larger than one meg) or colour laser prints (no larger than A4). Applicants may be invited to an interview at the next stage of the selection process.

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