Upon completion of this course, students will have developed a basic knowledge of contemporary practice in Jewellery, have a basic understanding of the elements and organizing principles of 3- Dimensional Design as they pertain to Jewellery and metal-working as a compositional system, have an understanding of metalwork processes and the characteristics of materials. Technical contents to be studied includes metal surface treatments, separating materials, joining, riveting, soldering, basic finishing, sheet metal forming and bezel setting.

Instructional delivery will involve lectures, demonstrations and hands on practical activities.

Warnings against possible mechanical and material hazards will be given at various stages of the programme. The objective of ensuring total compliance would be achieved through lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and an end-of-semester examination.

Instructional demonstrations of workshop techniques are followed by “hands- on” student exercises, using a wide variety of modelling materials, including timber, plastics, and metals.

By the of the course, students will be conversant with skills involved in Conventional practices as applied to sectional drawings as well as production of assembly drawings from detail drawings of separate parts or vice versa.

Course contents will include the creation of one, two, and three view sketches with traditional tools will be presented, First and Third Angle projections with the use of hidden detail, First and second auxiliary projection of shapes and solids.

A description of the standard practices for representing edges, curves, holes, tangencies, fillets, and rounds will also be covered.

Method of delivery will include lectures, demonstrations and hands on activities.

Students will also be able to explain why 3D solid modelling is becoming the standard method for developing jewellery and product designs for many industries as well as studio artists operating very small shops. Courses to be studied include: the overview of Parametric Curves, Vector and curvature, Bezier curves, B-spline curves and their significance in the contemporary jewellery and product design studio.

Lessons will be mainly delivered through lectures, demonstrations and practical activities.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• increase their ability to communicate with intention, develop effective listening skills, practice their conversation skills to foster interactive dialogue, improve their communication skills to make effective presentations, facilitate useful meetings, and write clear communications.

Course outline will entail distinguishing and practising different intentions for communicating, identifying optimal ways to communicate in class and workplace, identifying genuine listening skills with curiosity, demonstrating their learning, understanding, and competence in regards to the learning outcomes described in this course.

Lesson would be delivered mainly through lectures, discussions and demonstrations.

The course begins with an overview of the object-oriented analysis and design. Students will develop high sense of concept development as it pertains to jewellery design and production.

Topics to be discussed will involve experiences in visual thinking which describe the interaction of seeing, imagining and idea-sketching are discussed. The primary materials for model making, paper, clay, plaster and Styrofoam will also be discussed.

Lessons will be delivered through lectures, demonstrations and hands on practices.

Contents will include the techniques of soldering, casting, cold bending and piercing by the process of sawing, boring and the removal of metal by attrition and fabrication using non-ferrous metals to translate drawn designs into finished objects, giving students the knowledge and skills necessary to undertake contemporary jewellery design projects for various applications. The chemical and physical surface cleaning processes would also be demonstrated as well as the technique of Raising and the various tools (Anvils, Stakes and Hammers) used in this process.

Method of delivery would mainly be by demonstrations and practical projects.

By the end of the course, students would have learnt the most common casting method for jewellery (as well as for large objects) entailing static casting or gravity pouring where the metal fills the mould cavity simply through the force of gravity.

Course content will include the study in the different mould types (reusable and expendable) and the mould materials, lost wax investment casting, its advantages and limitations, wax composition for investment casting, types of wax and wax-manipulating tools and the preparation of wax models for casting.

Mode of delivery will include lectures, demonstrations and practical projects.

The objectives of the course are to equip students with the knowledge and skills in changing the base metals surface appearance through the use of a mechanical application of precious metals, building up a surface by depositing metals through electrolytic mediums (electroplating) and synthesizing form and texture by electrochemistry.

Main topics will include the preparation of surface electroplating, the plating formulas for gold, silver and nickel, colouring of metals as surface coating process achieved through the use of heat, chemicals and electrolysis. Students will also be advised to strictly observe all safety requirements and precautions since some of the chemicals used in such metal colouring process are toxic.

Lectures, demonstrations and hands on practical activities will be the main methods of delivery.

Students by the end of the completion of this course, will develop an understanding of the problems associated with these changes and strategies on how to avoid or minimize their adverse effects. They will also be able to describe the physical and mechanical properties of various metals, name various alloying elements used in metal making and their effects, outline the types of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and their applications and explain the heating and cooling effects on a weldment brought about by welding and how these effects can be controlled.

In addition, various weld defects and faults which can occur in the shop floor environment are examined. Additional topics including heat treatment, stress relief and distortion will be discussed in depth.

Lessons will be delivered through lectures, demonstrations and practical projects.

The course content will entail the creation of CAD models within the metrics of scale, proportion, and element relationships, develop CAD models within the constraints of cost, time, size, style, and manufacturing methods, distinguishing between various CAD software, including Rhino and Matrix; and various CAM methods, including 3D printing, modelling and rendering manufactural pieces of jewellery using CAD/CAM, and display them in a final CAD exhibition.

Lessons will be delivered through lecturer, demonstrations and laboratory tutorials.

Objective is to empower the students to start their own business and employ others through business plan development and proposal writing and extend their understanding of the foundation theories and principles of entrepreneurship. This is to ensure that, students apply entrepreneurial theory to organisational contexts thereby playing a major role in the context of national employability and development.

Topics to be studied will include identifying business opportunities, developing business ideas, commercial ventures, portfolio/serial/corporate entrepreneurship, family business, ethnic/indigenous entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship.

Lessons will be delivered through lectures and case study presentations.

By the completion of this course students will be conversant with the methods of construction or fabrication as essential factors in the choice of material, manifesting in their selected projects. Students will learn to develop jewellery designs that can be classified as either frontal, cylindrical or three-dimensional.

They will also learn design processes that ensure that functional considerations such as jewellery size, weight balance, flexibility and rigidity have been applied during the analysis stage of the design process.

Lessons will be delivered through demonstrations and practical projects.

Courses to be studied will be made up of instruction in the design, modelling and creation of various jewellery artefacts. Students will through demonstrations and hands on practical activities gain hands-on experience in welding metals and working with gems including advanced instructions on how to make moulds and models for large-scale production.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have reliably demonstrated the ability to apply casting techniques in the production of jewellery, apply the health and safety procedures necessary for the casting process, safely use and operate the hand and machine tools necessary for the casting and finishing of assigned projects, complete a series of samples and finished articles of jewellery that reflect technical and aesthetic competency as specified in project criteria and recall the characteristics and properties of metals and materials used in the casting of jewellery.

Content of the course will include skills in the various processes involved in casting such as: spruing of the wax model, determining the amount of metal needed for a casting, painting the model with a wetting agent, preparing the casting metal and finishing the casting.

By the end of this course students will have a good appreciation of the prime function of facets on a stone to exploit its optical properties of brilliances, dispersion of fire, and to heighten any existing colour.

Topics will include occurrence of gemstones in nature, gemstone enhancement techniques, and synthetic gem materials.

An instructional procedure includes a comprehensive lab component that will give student the opportunity to acquire some basic hands-on experience in gem identification using gemmological instruments (refractometer, dichroscope, etc.)

In this course, students are introduced to the three primary settings used for setting a faceted stone, namely, Closed settings – the stone is normally only open to light from above the girdle, Open settings – this allows the entrance of light stone from below a transparent, faceted stone’s  girdle through the pavilion facets and Group settings – those in which several stones are set together to form a cluster; to cover a surface , called a pave’ setting; or in a linear series, called a channel setting this course will close out  with a brief discussion on composite stones an gemstone substitutes.

Mode of delivery will include lectures, demonstrations and practical sessions.

Objective is to inculcate into the student the concept of business ethics that propels genuine and rewarding entrepreneurial practices. Students by the completion of this course will be able to exhibit understanding of rules and ethical issues that promote not just entrepreneurial practices but develops the kind of entrepreneurial spirit that ensures individual profitability and national development.

Topics to be studied will include business organisation in Ghana, custom duty, environmental legislation, investment in Ghana, labour laws and labour acts, taxation and tax legislation, procurement act, civil procedure.

Lessons will be delivered through lectures, demonstrations and presentations.

This course seeks to provide an introduction to research methods and designs relevant to Jewellery practitioners.

The course will focus on an introduction to various research designs, including experimental and non-experimental, as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods. In addition, the course will focus on providing a practical understanding of several statistical tools used in Artistic research.

The emphasis will be on knowing when to use the various tests, what they measure, and how to interpret results. Students will understand some basic concepts of research and its methodologies and identify appropriate research topics.

Again, students will be able to select and define appropriate research problems and parameters, organize and conduct research (advanced project) in a more appropriate manner, and write a research proposal and research report.