Program Overview
College of The Albemarle’s (COA) Professional Crafts: Jewelry program will teach you the jewelry construction, metalsmithing, design and marketing skills needed to develop your own unique style, create one-of-a-kind and production pieces, and build a business from your artistic talent.
Degree Options
- Professional Crafts: Jewelry — Diploma
- Professional Crafts: Basic Jewelry — Certificate
- Professional Crafts: Advanced Jewelry — Certificate
Instructor
Kathryn Osgood is an associate professor in the Professional Crafts: Jewelry program. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Maine and her Master of Fine Arts from East Carolina University. Her fabricated and enameled jewelry pieces are inspired by botanical forms and the flora and fauna of her coastal North Carolina environment.
Studio
The Professional Arts building houses a COA’s professional arts gallery and a jewelry studio, which offers:
- Twelve student workbenches, fully equipped with the hand tools required for jewelry fabrication
- A main studio with a rolling mill, bench shear, hydraulic press, and a forming and raising area with a selection of hammers, stakes and anvils
- A second studio with soldering stations, vacuum casting equipment, a digitally controlled burnout kiln and a large enameling kiln with overhead ventilation
- A third studio with finishing and polishing equipment, a beadblaster, band saw, wax injector, anodizer and photo booth
- A computer lab with Rhinoceros 3D modeling software and Flamingo rendering software, allowing you to design and produce rendered images of your jewelry pieces
Careers
Curriculum Guides
| First Year Fall Semester Course Number and Title |
Prerequisites and Corequisites |
Class Hours | Lab Hours | Clinical Hours | Total Contact Hours | Total Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENG 111 Writing and Inquiry | Prerequisite: ENG 002 Tier 1 Corequisite: ENG 011 |
3 | n/a | n/a | 3 | 3 |
| PCJ 111 Intro to Jewelry | n/a | 2 | 15 | n/a | 17 | 7 |
| PCJ 121 Jewelry Design I | n/a | 2 | n/a | n/a | 2 | 2 |
| Total Semester Hours | 7 | 15 | n/a | 22 | 12 | |
| First Year Spring Semester Course Number and Title |
Prerequisites and Corequisites |
Class Hours | Lab Hours | Clinical Hours | Total Contact Hours | Total Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCJ 112 Jewelry Forming Techniques | Prerequisites: PCJ 111 | 2 | 15 | n/a | 17 | 7 |
| PCJ 122 Jewelry Design II | n/a | 2 | n/a | n/a | 2 | 2 |
| COM 110 Introduction to Communication or COM 120 Introduction to Interpersonal Communication or COM 231 Public Speaking |
Prerequisite for COM 110: none Prerequisite for COM 120: none Prerequisite for COM 231: ENG 111 |
3 | n/a | n/a | 3 | 3 |
| Total Semester Hours | 7 | 15 | n/a | 22 | 12 | |
| Second Year Fall Semester Course Number and Title |
Prerequisites and Corequisites |
Class Hours | Lab Hours | Clinical Hours | Total Contact Hours | Total Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCJ 113 Jewelry Decorative Techniques | Prerequisite: PCJ 111 | 3 | 9 | n/a | 12 | 6 |
| PCJ 261 Enameling | n/a | 1 | 3 | n/a | 4 | 2 |
| WBL 111 Work-Based Learning I | n/a | n/a | n/a | 10 | 10 | 1 |
| ART 111 Art Appreciation | n/a | 3 | n/a | n/a | 3 | 3 |
| Total Semester Hours | 7 | 12 | 10 | 29 | 12 | |
| Second Year Spring Semester Course Number and Title |
Prerequisites and Corequisites |
Class Hours | Lab Hours | Clinical Hours | Total Contact Hours | Total Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCJ 214 Jewelry Production Techniques | Prerequisites: PCJ 112 and PCJ 113 | 2 | 15 | n/a | 17 | 7 |
| ART 214 Portfolio and Resume | Corequisites: limited to those who have completed a sequence in the proposed area of study | n/a | 2 | n/a | 2 | 1 |
| WBL 110 World of Work or WBL 121 Work-Based Learning II |
n/a | 0 – 1 | n/a | 0 – 10 | 1 – 10 | 1 |
| PCJ 241 Jewelry: Special Study | Prerequisites: PCJ 112 and PCJ 113 | n/a | 4 | n/a | 4 | 2 |
| Total Semester Hours | 2 – 3 | 21 | 0 – 10 | 24 – 33 | 11 | |
| Total Semester Hours Required for Diploma | 47 | |||||
| First Year Fall Semester Course Number and Title |
Prerequisites and Corequisites |
Class Hours | Lab Hours | Clinical Hours | Total Contact Hours | Total Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCJ 111 Intro to Jewelry | n/a | 2 | 15 | n/a | 17 | 7 |
| PCJ 121 Jewelry Design I | n/a | 2 | n/a | n/a | 2 | 2 |
| Total Semester Hours | 4 | 15 | n/a | 19 | 9 | |
| First Year Spring Semester Course Number and Title |
Prerequisites and Corequisites |
Class Hours | Lab Hours | Clinical Hours | Total Contact Hours | Total Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCJ 112 Jewelry Forming Techniques | Prerequisite: PCJ 111 | 2 | 15 | n/a | 17 | 7 |
| Total Semester Hours | 2 | 15 | n/a | 17 | 7 | |
| Total Semester Hours Required for Certificate | 16 | |||||
To complete higher level certificates, students may be required to complete coursework offered in the previous certificate to meet all required course prerequisites.
| First Year Fall Semester Course Number and Title |
Prerequisites and Corequisites |
Class Hours | Lab Hours | Clinical Hours | Total Contact Hours | Total Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCJ 113 Jewelry Decorative Techniques | Prerequisite: PCJ 111 | 3 | 9 | n/a | 12 | 6 |
| PCJ 261 Enameling | n/a | 1 | 3 | n/a | 4 | 2 |
| Total Semester Hours | 4 | 12 | n/a | 16 | 8 | |
| First Year Spring Semester Course Number and Title |
Prerequisites and Corequisites |
Class Hours | Lab Hours | Clinical Hours | Total Contact Hours | Total Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCJ 214 Jewelry Production Techniques | Prerequisites: PCJ 112 and PCJ 113 | 2 | 15 | n/a | 17 | 7 |
| PCJ 241 Jewelry: Special Study | Prerequisites: PCJ 112 and PCJ 113 | n/a | 4 | n/a | 4 | 2 |
| Total Semester Hours | 2 | 19 | n/a | 21 | 9 | |
| Total Semester Hours Required for Certificate | 17 | |||||