720 Hours
Comprehensive Jewelry Training
This is a comprehensive course aimed at individuals who plan to enter the professional jewelry trade. Students are taught in small groups in four major areas of study: fundamental jewelry techniques, stone setting, wax modeling and casting/molds, and decorative processes. No previous experience is necessary.
Once successfully finishing this course, students will be qualified to work at entry level jobs in the jewelry trade, where the working environment demands a diversity of basic and advanced skills.
Classes Meet
Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm
for 24 weeks.
The course is given in two quarters, each 12 weeks long.
Tuition
Fee is $15,000. The basic tool kit is $400 plus $35.50 sales tax. The total fee for tuition plus the basic tool kit is $15,435.50. Payment plans are available.
Certificate
Students earn a Certificate in Comprehensive Jewelry Training.
Course Dates
February (1st Monday)
Mid-July
April (1st Monday)
Early October
September (2nd Monday)
Mid-March
November (1st Monday)
Mid-April
Curriculum Outline
Sawing | Piercing | Filing | Sanding | Polishing/buffing | Soldering | Annealing | Use of rolling mill | Use of draw plate | Testing of metals | Hinge construction
Bezel setting | Prong setting | Channel setting | Pear shape setting | Marquise setting | Emerald cut setting | Bead work setting | Pave setting | Gypsy setting | Baquette setting
Basic wax ring | Wax ring w/stone | Wax earrings | Wax name ring | Carving wax | Wax sheet | Wax wire | Spruing | Investing | Centrifugal casting | Vacuum casting | Rubber molds | Use of wax injector
Texturing | Chasing/repousse | Etching | Enameling | Electroplating | Fusing | Marriage of metals | Bead/pearl stringing