BA CERAMICS
Aims and outcomes
On completion of the course, students are equipped to design models, analysing the problems raised, knowing the existing solutions to be improved or defining new products. This implies having research and information treatment skills, methodological skills for managing a project through, and communication skills for dealing with technical and commercial departments.
Training is aimed at :
• developing analytical skills,
• encouraging creativity and aesthetic sensibility,
• gaining proficient artistic skills, including sketching, drawing, colour and volume skills,
• improving one’s knowledge of conventional modes of representation,
• acquiring a strong knowledge of materials and processes.
Course content
Theoretical teaching is combined with experimenting with materials (plaster, enamel, clay, styrofoam…).
Students need to be analytical and methodical, well-read, clever with their hands, with artistic and creative abilities as well as a good sense of volume and composition.
Career prospects
At the end of the course students can go to careers in :
• ceramics,
• pottery,
• tableware,
• porcelain,
• bathroom ceramics,
• special products,
to make decorative or architectural items, wall and floor coverings, modular elements, furniture, tableware.
They can work independently or collaboratively.
The improvement of existing products and the necessity to create new products to meet our changing ways of life are widening the range of career prospects.
Semesters: 2 (FY) +4
ECTS credits: 30/sem
Compulsory work
placement: yes, end of semester 4, minimum six weeks, usually longer.
Courses and number
of hours per week
semesters 1 and 2
see FOUNDATION YEAR
semesters 3 and 4
Studio 16h
Technology 2h
Drawing 2h
Modelling 4h
Artistic expression 2h
Arts, techniques and civilizations 2h
Literature & communication 2h
Foreign language (English,
German or Spanish) 2h
Maths 1h
Physics and chemistry 2h
Management and economics 1h
semesters 5 and 6
Studio 16h
Technology 2h
Drawing 2h
Modelling 2h
Artistic expression 2h
Arts, techniques and civilizations 2h
Literature & communication 2h
Foreign language (English,
German or Spanish) 2h
Maths 1h
Physics and chemistry 2h
Management and economics 1h
Philosophy 2h
