The BA (Hons) Glass and Ceramics course encourages students to develop approaches to practice based on ‘thinking through making' where learning takes place through direct, responsive engagement with materials and processes, combining tacit knowledge of skills and craft with curiosity, speculation and reflection.<br><br>The BA (Hons) Glass and Ceramics course encourages students to develop approaches to practice based on ‘thinking through making' where learning takes place through direct, responsive engagement with materials and processes, combining tacit knowledge of skills and craft with curiosity, speculation and reflection. <br><br>The course at Wolverhampton is an intensive studio based programme, supported by technical workshops, theoretical engagement and a wide range of study visits and opportunities to promote and exhibit your work. The programme aims to support media specialist practitioners in glass and ceramics alongside students who want to work across media and subject disciplines and forge new relationships between conceptual and material approaches to practice.<br><br>Initially students are given opportunities to engage with materials and processes associated with glass and ceramics alongside related activities of print, drawing/image making and digital manufacture. Increasingly students are encouraged to adopt more personal, informed and responsive approaches that will allow for diverse practice across a wide spectrum of craft, design and art contexts.<br><br>The Faculty of Arts promotes student enterprise and enhances their employability. There are Employability Co-ordinators and Champions who can assist students in securing work placements, undertaking live briefs, engaging directly with employers and developing key employability skills. The Faculty is committed to raising student awareness of the opportunities that exist post-graduation, and can assist as the interface between education and industry within the region.<br><br>In addition, the course aims to introduce students to less conventional approaches to building careers in the cultural industries and many of our graduates are actively involved in artist led projects for example curatorial cooperatives, independent galleries and studio groups which are now widely acknowledged to contribute to urban regeneration and economic revival. To support this career trajectory our students develop a vast range of transferable skills which include entrepreneurial, project management and marketing experience, the ability to initiate, reflect and problem solve in a range of situations and the presentation skills appropriate to working in professional and academic life.<br><br>All of our students have the opportunity to engage with an additional ‘Employability Award' associated with their degree, and a high percentage of our students achieve the gold standard as a result of our employment-focused curriculum.