This course provides the opportunity to learn through experience while simultaneously requiring learners to engage with social and historical issues that inform current practice; the ability to solve problems and an understanding of form; function and design principles are developed through direct involvement with materials and processes; learners are encouraged to consider relationships between the content of work and the practical concerns of making; the taught programme is broad in its scope and offers the opportunity to work in art; craft or design based areas; or a combination of these, and encourages an enquiring flexible approach; work in a range of 3-dimensional materials is encouraged in the conviction that a breadth of experience is intrinsically valuable in developing learners' aptitudes for making comparisons between different forms and functions and for informing and enriching the work in contemporary 3-dimensional crafts; application deadline: March 2010.