Our Advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design is a two year, full-time dynamic course that provides a pathway from the Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design and is delivered over three days a week. The course focuses on further developing key hand-working skills learnt in the Diploma and provides tuition in advanced jewellery-making techniques, and introduces high-level technical jewellery-making skills to promote individual attainment. The course culminates in a graduate exhibition where students showcase their talent and jewellery designs to industry specialists, peers, family and friends. Learn in our professional jewellery school If you desire to pursue or enhance an emerging career in jewellery, this course is for you. Focusing predominantly on your hand-working skill base, you will learn technological aspects of making jewellery and gain industry knowledge, experience and networks. Study areas include design, drawing and rendering, development of a series of jewellery works, small business set-up, research and CAD (computer-aided design). You will learn the following techniques Traditional techniques of filigree, granulation, inlay, keum-boo, repousse and chasing Advanced jewellery techniques including a selection of the following: advanced soldering, fusing, complex hinges and specialized catches for lockets, containers or small vessels, stone setting (claw, bezel, gypsy, grain, pave, tension), rapid prototyping, enamelling (cloisonné, champlevé, basse taille) and articulated components. The course also includes a range of study areas to ensure the student experience is rigorous, engaging and industry focused. These include: Design development Production jewellery Small business set-up Exhibition planning and design The Jewellery workshops are fitted with up-to-date equipment, featuring an abundance of natural light, presenting an attractive, comfortable learning environment to enhance the student experience. Assessment Methods Various forms of assessment are used, including practical exercises, written exercises, studio journals or combinations of the three. Modes of Delivery Classroom Pathways to further study You may wish to extend your qualifications by undertaking further study in the areas of gemmology, diamond technology and jewellery valuation. You may also choose to articulate into further study of fine arts at other tertiary institutions including RMIT and Monash. Career Pathways The Advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design is designed to prepare you to establish your own designer/maker studio, creating bespoke, one off commissions for clients as well as production jewellery and objects for sale in retail/online outlets. Graduates from the Advanced Diploma have gone on to work as technical assistants in the area of bionic technologies and as jewellery studio technicians in the creative education sector.