BA (Hons) Ceramics & – Welcome guide

Your Reading List

You are not required to read any specific books for this course. Instead, we encourage you to actively find and read any publications and sources that you feel may benefit you in terms of your education and aspirations in this subject.

They may include the following:

• Rutherford and Bartholomew (2012) The Design Student’s Handbook: Your essential Guide to Course, Context and Career. • Simpson, Ian (2003). Drawing: Seeing and Observation (3rd Revised Ed.). London: A&C Black. • Stouffer, Hannah (2016) The New Age of Ceramics. London: Gingko Press • Cummings, Keith (2002). Techniques of KilnFormed Glass (Revised Ed.). London: A&C Black. • Cummings, Keith (2002), A History of Glassforming. London: A & C Black. • Hanaor, Ziggy (2007), Breaking the Mould: New Approaches to Ceramics, Black Dog Publishing. • Quinn, Anthony (2007), The Ceramics Design Course: Principles – Practices, Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd. • Harrod, Tanya (1999), The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press. Magazines: • Crafts Magazine • Ceramic Review

Your summer project

On your first day at the university, please bring with you two images:

• An image of where you come from • An image of your favourite object

The images can be printed in colour on an A4 sheet of paper or you can bring them on your laptop. Equipment & Materials You will need your own basic equipment to help you with project work. You will be expected to build on this as the course progresses and as your work develops.

• Plastic Ruler • Range of pencils and drawing materials • Plastic eraser • Hardback A3 sketchbook • Craft or • Masking tape • Retractable metal tape measure • • Enclosed and fairly sturdy shoes. • Apron

In addition to the above, because of the technical requirements of your course we recommend that you purchase a basic set of , which we have listed below. You may already have some of the items on the list, but if you haven’t we have also included a list of suppliers for you.

Basic tools

• Whirler/banding wheel • Rolling pin • Basic set of wooden modelling tools • Basic set of plastic modelling tools • Sponge • Sponge on a stick • Plastic sieve • Pottery knife • Clay wire • Steel and rubber kidney • Cloths - old tea towels, calico, etc • Buckets of various sizes with lids • Glass cutter List of Assorted Suppliers

Bluematchbox Kit https://www.bluematchbox.co.uk/tools-brushes/toolkits/

Clayman https://www.claymansupplies.co.uk/Category/tools_sets/148

Pottery Crafts https://www.potterycrafts.co.uk/Products/potters-tool-kits

CTM - essential buckets with lids https://www.ctmpotterssupplies.co.uk/bucketscontainersandscoops.html

Warm Glass https://www.warm-glass.co.uk/toyo-super-glass-cutter-pencil-grip-p-275.html? cPath=177_70

Wilko - kitchen supplies, very helpful cheaper editions to tool kit https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-35cm-beech-rolling-pin/p/0078397

There will be additional costs as you progress through the course. Specialist materials costs in Years 2 and 3 are dependent upon the type and scale of individual work being undertaken.

If you have any questions, please contact the following: Campus Registry Office 01252 89 2834 [email protected]

An answer phone service is available on the phone number listed above for any out of hours enquiries. BA (Hons) Ceramics & Glass – Teaching during COVID-19

Our key priority is the wellbeing of our students and we will continue to follow Government advice and regulations relating to health and safety during the Coronavirus pandemic. This involves making some changes to the way that we deliver our courses during the 2020/21 academic year and we have prepared this information to let you know what your course will look like, to the best of our knowledge within these uncertain times. We want to reassure you that we are committed to delivering an on-campus, face-to-face experience to students during 2020/21, based at our normal locations as far as is safe and practical. All face-to-face interactions will follow any social distancing guidelines in force at that time.

We are not planning on making any changes to your course or unit aims, learning outcomes, or assessment methods, under any of our delivery scenarios.

Scenario 1 – Current Social Distancing rules continue to apply for all or part of the 2020/21 academic year:

Changes to learning spaces • Our priority as a university is to deliver our teaching on campus, in socially distanced face-to-face tutorials, group seminars and workshops. Where this is not possible, we will continue to deliver online or remotely. • We plan to update the layouts of our classrooms, workshops and studios so you can have safe access to these and other specialist facilities, taking social distancing measures into account and providing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) where needed. • Access to making facilities will be both scheduled and bookable to allow for use within the current safety requirements and layouts. Access to the the ceramics and glass facilities, workshops and equipment will be carefully negotiated and prioritised in a fair way to enable each of you to make your work.

Timetabling

• We’re scheduling classes to limit the number of students on campus at any one time. • We’ll be using the ‘bubble’ principle, meaning you will be taught in smaller groups to enable social distancing, and have as little physical contact with other groups as possible. • We’re scheduling your classes so you can transition between them safely and make the lowest possible number of trips to and from campus each week. • Project briefings and lectures will be delivered remotely, though there may be occasions where these will be delivered on campus on your timetabled days. • All CAD, Contextual and Professional Practice lectures will be delivered remotely.

Contact time We are not changing our approach to contact time and scheduled delivery – this will still take place as published in our Programme Specifications and unit descriptors. However, some of this contact time may take place in a different way, for example remotely or online, in order to enable social distancing to be implemented and to prioritise students’ access to facilities and workshops. This will mean moving some of the larger scale activities such as lectures, talks, seminars and briefings online. In this way we will continue to support both staff and students who are vulnerable, high risk or may need to shield, but our contact time will remain the same as published in the unit descriptors, and you will be expected to engage in full-time learning and scheduled course activities.

Online learning • Where practical, we’ll also put our lectures, classes and seminars online so that you can still access them if you are self-isolating, shielding, or unable to come to the UK. • For 2020/21, where it is appropriate and when face to face meetings aren’t possible, we will move specific unit content online. For example, CAD and Contextual Studies will be delivered remotely. • We will continue to review online learning according to the social distancing requirements, safe working systems and official guidance.

Wellbeing & support • You’ll have one-to-one Personal Development Tutorials with an academic tutor, where they’ll talk through your progress and check on your wellbeing. They will offer online sessions when face-to-face meetings aren’t possible. • Through Gateway, you’ll continue to have access to a full range of specialist advisors who will offer online sessions when face-to-face meetings aren’t possible. • All our plans take vulnerable learners and students with additional learning requirements into account – we’re making sure we can deliver learning safely to all our students, whether that means accessing teaching on campus, or online.

Industry links • We’ll continue to host visiting lectures, industry projects, and networking events, either face-to-face or through online learning. • We will continue to include competitions, industry and live projects in the curriculum.

Assessments

• Work will need to be submitted digitally, and we anticipate that there will be a mixture of physical, virtual and online assessment. • If you’ve been personally affected by Coronavirus, your assessments will take that into account and make sure you aren’t disadvantaged by it.

Equipment & resources

• We’ve developed new library systems and cleaning processes for loans and equipment hire to make sure you can borrow what you need safely. • We’ll offer IT equipment loans to those students who need them most. • As soon as Government advice permits, we will provide as much physical access to our libraries as we can to ensure that you have access to our physical and digital collections, but are able to observe social distancing for your own safety and that of others. Library Services

Libraries on campus will be open and services will be adjusted to ensure they are safe for everyone. They will include: • Click and collect access to books and DVDs • Bookable computers and study spaces • Scan and deliver service, enabling you to receive journal articles and chapters of books electronically. • A regular cleaning rota in place.

All other resources and services (including workshops and tutorials) will be delivered online, and will include webinars to help you work your way around the online library and improve your information and research skills.

For further assistance, visit myLibrary (https://ucreative.libguides.com/mylibrary).

Catering The refectories across our campuses will be open to students with new hygiene and social distancing measures in place. We will only be selling pre-prepared food.

Scenario 2 – a further lockdown is implemented by Government

During the 2019/20 academic year we introduced a number of emergency measures, which included:

• Moving learning and assessment online • Looking at prior activity with a view to ensuring that learning outcomes are covered somewhere within the year of study, and adjusting assessment tasks accordingly • Providing alternative assessment where the original assessment was not deliverable • Providing extensions for units where necessary to cover course content, and for individual students if their circumstances required it • Where the University is not the awarding body, following the validators’ exacting requirements for predicted and other grades so that students receive a final outcome commensurate with effort and aptitude.

These measures would be re-introduced if necessary, but only for the period covered by the lockdown, with a return to scenario 1 as soon as is safe and practical to do so.

Adapting to your feedback

• We’ll continue to work with you to find out how you’re feeling about the new measures. • You’ll have the opportunity to work with teaching staff to adapt and improve the way we deliver your course in line with public health guidelines.