JWL2313 Material transformations: Contemporary jewellery practices
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
JWL2313 Material transformations: Contemporary jewellery practices is a level 2, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, offered in 2025 in Semester 2 at Caulfield. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 2
- Caulfield
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before JWL2313
Corequisites
Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.
After JWL2313
No unit lists JWL2313 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
You must have passed at least 24 credit points of units owned by the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture.
Overview
In this unit, the experience of previous units is used to incrementally build upon and extend your knowledge and experience in both making and critical thinking. The continued research of contemporary jewellery and its various contexts supports your increased understanding of the potential of the practice and the opportunity to develop innovative ideas. The emphasis in this unit is on facilitating the development of your ideas with increasing sophistication that demonstrates an advanced level of practice, underpinned by practical and theoretical research.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Caulfield | On campus |
Assessment
- Mid-semester assessmentProject40%
- End-of-semester assessmentProject60%
- Workshop competency assessmentDemonstrationCompetency hurdle-
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Demonstrate an understanding of contemporary jewellery practice as a discipline within Art, Design & Architecture;
- 2
Develop ideas and skills to realise jewellery-based and body-related objects through an open process of inquiry and experimentation. Through the experience of making you will start to articulate your own visual and conceptual language within the context of contemporary jewellery practices;
- 3
Critically analyse the theoretical and historical rationale and context of your work and its connection to a range of contemporary practices;
- 4
Demonstrate abilities to safely and effectively use specialist material processes and equipment to generate outcomes.
Workload and teaching
- Studio activities48 hours
12 hours per week including 4 contact hours plus 8 hours of independent study and studio practice.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Associate Professor Terri Bird
- Unit Coordinators
- Anna Varendorff
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for JWL2313?
None, but you must take OHS1000 before or alongside it.
When is JWL2313 offered?
In 2025, JWL2313 runs in Semester 2 at Caulfield.
Does JWL2313 have an exam?
No. JWL2313 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.