Bachelor of Arts - Jewelry Design
- 3 years
- Duration
- 20,200 EUR/year
- Price
- Oct 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Milan / Italy
- Location
Program description
Prepare to embark on a journey of self-discovery; our Jewellery Design Undergraduate Programme will teach you the skills necessary to become a Jewellery Designer who can conceptualize, develop, and produce an entire jewelry line with their own unique flair.
Digital design, 3D modeling, and rendering will sit alongside traditional metalworking and other material processes.
You can establish a firm basis for your own concept of Jewellery Design through a project-based approach to jewelry, where constant experimentation is carried out while working hands-on in the goldsmith's workshop.
As you begin to interact with the seemingly separate worlds of personal and experimental approach on the one hand and company-oriented design on the other, you will gain an understanding of the complex environment in which contemporary jewelers operate.
Many diverse approaches to jewelry design will be presented to you. To begin, there is Contemporary Art Jewellery, where each piece of jewelry is a one-of-a-kind creation using valuable or nontraditional materials. You'll also get to try your hand at fashion jewelry, an emerging trend in which jewelry is seen as a way to spruce up any outfit. Fine Jewellery offers a new point of view because of the intricate web of connections between the planning of a project and the selection of its precious materials.
At the end of the course you get First Level Academic Diploma in Fashion Design. This Diploma, accredited by Ministry of University and Research, is equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts Degree.
Program structure
1st YEAR
- History of contemporary art
- Design methods
- Materials typology 1
- Drafting
- History of design
- Model building 1
- Graphic design
- Jewelry design 1
- Arts semiotics
- Perception theory and psychology of form
- Interdisciplinary Lectures/Seminars/ Workshops
2nd YEAR
- Materials typology 2
- Drawing techniques and technologies
- History of applied arts
- Model building 2
- Jewelry design 2
- Design
- 3D Computer model-making techniques
- Design management
- Sociology of culture
- History of fashion
- Electives Interdisciplinary Lectures/Seminars/ Workshops + Competitions
3rd YEAR
- Jewelry design 3
- 3D Rendering technologies
- Fashion studies: environment
- Phenomenology of contemporary arts
- History of contemporary architecture
- Jewelry design 4
- Electives
- Internships + Competitions + Interdisciplinary Lectures/Seminars/ Workshops
- Foreign language
- Final project
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 20200.00 EUR for international students
Requirements for applicants
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR 1ST LEVEL ACADEMIC DIPLOMA COURSES
In order to be eligible to apply for a 1st Level Academic Diploma Programme (equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts Degree), students must hold qualifications which meet all of the following core requirements:
- the qualification is an official upper secondary school leaving qualification from the foreign education system of reference;
- the qualification allows entry to first - cycle academic courses in the foreign education system of reference;
- the qualification was awarded after a minimum of 12 years of previous overall schooling and after at least 2 full years of attendance in the educational system that issued the diploma;
- where compulsorily required in the education system of the country of origin, students are also requested to pass an academic suitability test/national university entrance exam
LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
To prove their proficiency in the required language, the applicant must either:
- submit one of the accepted language certificates listed in the table below (the certificate cannot have been awarded more than 2 years before the application is made to IED);
- take the IED language assessment.
RECOGNISED CERTIFICATES
- IELTS Academic ≥ 5.5
- Cambridge C2 Proficiency (CPE)
- Cambridge B2 First (FCE)
- Cambridge C1 Advanced (CAE)
- B2 Vantage Bulats ≥ 60 (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- TOEFL IBT ≥ 68
- PTE Academic ≥ 59
- ISE Level II (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- ISE Level III (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- ISE Level IV (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
About the university
Since 1966, we have been the largest Higher Education Network in the creative area to keep both a worldwide perspective and a strongly Italian cultural matrix.
Our educational strategy has evolved over time, but at its core remains the same: we mix theoretical study with hands-on experience and the expertise of working experts. One of the things we emphasize in our classes is always thinking ahead, in the here and now. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary institution that views design as a tool for social transformation.
Among the many international academic networks in which we participate are Cumulus, Elia, and WDO, just to name a few.
Campuses
In the 1970s and 1980s, we expanded to Rome (1973), Cagliari (1984), and Turin (1989) in Italy.
Beginning in 1994 with the Madrid campus and continuing on to Barcelona in 2002, Spain's modern era began in the 1990s.
The Group also spread internationally, establishing a presence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2005, and then in Venice, Italy, in 2007, Florence, Italy, in 2009, and Como, Italy, in 2009, with the acquisition of the Aldo Galli Academy of Fine Arts. The Group expanded its footprint in Brazil in 2014 by renovating the Cassino da Urca and opening a campus in Rio de Janeiro; in 2020, the Group will expand its presence in Spain by purchasing the Centro Superior de Diseo Kunsthal in Bilbao.
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