
1. To provide a program in Jewelry Design, which
will allow students to develop the skills needed
to create and illustrate designs for a variety
of jewelry;
2. To provide a program in Graduate Gemology,
which will allow students to learn how to grade
and identify diamonds and colored gems through
extensive practice in a lab-like setting;
3. To provide a program in Graduate Jeweler,
which will allow students to set stones, assemble,
fabricate, modify and repair jewelry professionally.
Students will also learn the foundation of knowledge
in custom jewelry manufacturing;
4. To provide a program in Metal Arts where
students will be able to demonstrate knowledge
of the advanced jewelry techniques such as sawing,
filing, soldering and metal smithing and apply
these advanced techniques, along with design
fundamentals, to create works of personal expression;
5. To offer advancement opportunities to those
students who are already in the jewelry field,
by providing the latest relevant information
and training in the development of technology.
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