Undergraduate Course: Professional Design Practice 4 (Jewellery & Silversmithing) (DESI10025)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is only available to students in the School of Design.
Indicative course content
This course consolidates students professional awareness of working methods and practices within their disciplines current practice in order to underpin their studio work and plan their professional career
Aims of course
1 Enable students to develop personal professional practices and methods
2 Enable students to confidently position their personal practice within the discipline and a broader professional context
3 Enable students to determine the appropriate personal creative methodologies and strategies for the professional presentation, exhibition and documentation of work to clearly identified audiences/clients/users/stakeholders
Mode of delivery
Self-Generated Projects, Mentoring, Tutorials |
| Course description |
As Summary
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2026/27, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
| Course Start Date |
21/09/2026 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 25,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
160 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
SUMMATIVE Assessment(s)
Portfolio submission (100%) submitted at the end of the course and evidencing all Learning Outcomes.
Learning Outcomes are weighted as LO1: 34%, LO2: 33%, LO3: 33%
All Learning Outcomes must be passed to pass the course.
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| Feedback |
Feedback
FORMATIVE
Formative feedback will be offered throughout the course and in a variety of formats, including written and/or orally at formative submission point(s), tutorials, and other activities.
SUMMATIVE
Final course grades and written feedback will be provided at the end of the course. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- EVALUATE: critically evaluate the discipline, and identify where they wish to position themselves within it
- REFLECT: reflect upon their work and evaluate it within and beyond the context of their discipline
- COMMUNICATE: communicate proposals persuasively within an appropriate professional context
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Reading List
DESI10025 Professional Design Practice 4- Jewellery & Silversmithing
- Boothroyd, A. Setting Up a Successful Jewellery Business.
Bloomsbury (2012)
- Cherry, N. Jewellery Design and Devlopment from Concept
to Object. Bloomsbury (2013)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Maria MacLennan
Tel:
Email: Maria.Maclennan@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Abbie Summers
Tel: (01316) 502306
Email: ahumphr2@ed.ac.uk |
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