Jewelry Manufacturing Arts Course Descriptions

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  • Applied Jewelry Arts Diploma Program JMA3200  

    GIA’s highly experienced instructors will teach you the basic principles of design, perspective, and composition; concentrating on metals, textures, trends, and price points. Students use their own designs to make complete models for casting and mold making as they come to understand jewelry design theory and develop an understanding of jewelry artistry. You’ll learn how to use leading-edge 3-D technology to design jewelry using computer aided design (CAD) software and how to illustrate the shape, form, and texture. You’ll also spend time troubleshooting common design challenges and create a wide variety of designs in wax.

    What you earn: Applied Jewelry Arts Diploma
    Locations: Carlsbad
    Duration: 26 week continuous program
    Tuition: $16,265
    Required Books and Materials: $715 + $150 technology service fee
    Total: $17,130 + applicable sales tax
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  • Graduate Jeweler Diploma Program JMA3300  

    The Graduate Jeweler diploma program is designed to train students to become bench jewelers. In an authentic trade shop environment, students work with gemstones and precious metals and take projects from concept to completion. By completing a series of projects, students progressively develop metal skills including melting, pouring, rolling, forming, and soldering. Multimedia presentations, lectures, text, integrated videos, and live demonstrations are utilized in the program.. In class, students train at their own workbenches, equipped with a torch, power tools, and essential toolkit. Students use both laser and tac welding technology as they become comfortable and confident performing common manufacturing, repair, and stone setting and mounting projects.

    What you earn: Graduate Jeweler Diploma
    Locations: Carlsbad
    Duration: 26 week continuous program
    Tuition: $15,850
    Required Books and Materials: $1,510 + $150 technology service fee
    Total: $17,510 + applicable sales tax
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  • Jewelry Design Course JMA370  

    In just nine weeks, you’ll have the creative and technical skills you need to begin your career as a custom jewelry designer. You’ll also have a portfolio of your work to show prospective employers and clients. The course will provide you with an understanding of jewelry design theory and help you acquire a working knowledge of jewelry artistry. You’ll develop the skills  to illustrate the shape, form, and texture of metal. You’ll learn how to work with drafting tools and learn how to render yellow and white metals, as well as a range of faceted and cabochon gemstones and pearls. You’ll be able to illustrate rings in five different views and discover how to keep your design ideas flowing.

    What you earn: Jewelry Design Certificate
    Locations: Carlsbad and New York
    Duration: 9 week continuous class
    Tuition: $5,460
    Required Books and Materials: $320
    Total: $5,780 + applicable sales tax
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Lab Classes

  • Casting Lab JMA353L  

    Take your designs and wax models and cast them in metal.  Acquire a range of new skills including wax mold injection techniques like spruing, treeing, and investing.  You’ll learn casting by centrifugal, vacuum, and chamber methods using silver and platinum, and induction vacuum casting in an oxygen-free atmosphere.  You will also learn how to make rubber molds.

    What you earn: Letter of Completion
    Duration: 10 days (60 hours)
    Tuition: $1,450 (Carlsbad)
    Required Books and Materials: $110
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  • Comprehensive Wax Techniques Lab JMA360L  

    Gain all the skills required to set up and operate a wax modeling shop for jewelry making. Learn the practical application of wax modeling through video presentations, project text materials, and personalized instruction.  Lay out ring, earring, brooch, and bracelet link projects using various soft and hard carving waxes.  Learn techniques such as pattern-transfer, contouring, layering, hollowing, precision carving and tool modification.  Inject soft wax into rubber molds to modify, reconstruct, size, and finish injected wax projects, along with all the proper spruing and casting procedures.  Perfect your wax carving and modeling skills, including wax model making, wax modification, and wax finishing.  By the time you complete the class, you’ll understand how to interpret a design and translate it into wax.

    What you earn: Letter of Completion
    Duration: 7 weeks (210 hours)
    Tuition: $4,150 (Carlsbad)
    Required Books and Materials: $120
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  • Mold Making Lab JMA325L  

    Learn the process of making rubber molds from metal masters using vulcanized rubber and room temperature vulcanization (RTV).  Learn how to cut various types of molds ranging from simple traditional designs to complex contemporary ones.

    What you earn: Letter of Completion
    Duration: 5 days (30 hours)
    Tuition: $800 (Carlsbad)
    Required Books and Materials: $100
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  • Comprehensive CAD/CAM for Jewelry JMA400  

    In this comprehensive seven-week course, you'll develop the skills necessary to create designs and share them with customers on the spot. By graduation, you'll have a professional level of skill in the use of state-of-the-art jewelry related software - Rhinoceros 3-D Design, Matrix 3-D Jewelry Design, Flamingo Rendering and V-Ray Rendering.  You'll learn to take jewelry design from concepts to photo-realistic renderings and finally to wax models ready for casting using a four-axis mill. 

    You'll practice designing jewelry on your own computer screen where you can make modifications in seconds.  Practically eliminating the expensive "trial-and-error" stage of design and manufacturing,  you'll learn to use computer-aided design (CAD) software which dramatically reduced your time to market. You'll see how automatically programmed specifications allow you to create custom designs in less time using automated builder menus to pre-calculate dimensions. 

     

    What you earn: Comprehensive CAD/CAM for Jewelry Certificate
    Duration: 7 weeks (210 hours)
    Tuition: $4,405 (Carlsbad)
    Required Books and Materials: $65
    Total: $4,620 + applicable sales tax
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