This Foundation Diploma in Ceramics is awarded in recognition of the successful completion of the two-year, part-time programme. It aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of the material and will enable you to gain a wide variety of clay techniques from hand-building to throwing, decorating and glazing work, that will develop your skills and build up your own creative language.
The Foundation Degree Arts, specialising in Ceramics, is designed to give you a well-rounded, broad experience of ceramic making processes and techniques, from individual hand built objects to small-scale batch production.
The BA (Hons) Craft Practices: Clocks, Furniture, Metals, Musical Instruments and Books and Bindings course is a one-year programme designed to provide a route into professional practice in your chosen field or for progression onto postgraduate study.
The Graduate Diploma Conservation Studies at West Dean College provides the theoretical and practical knowledge and experience necessary to start your career as a conservator. The programme is designed to be accessible from both the humanities and science study backgrounds.
Accelerate your career as a conservator with our Masters in Conservation Studies course. This unique programme combines theoretical, scientific, and analytical study with practical craft-based skills to successfully conserve, restore and preserve cultural heritage objects, artefacts, and materials with precision and expertise.
The Master of Fine Art (MFA) Craft Practices at West Dean is a two-year full-time masters course designed to support you to further advance your practical, theoretical and professional skills, through an emphasis on specialist studio practice.