Department of Ceramic Arts

The University introduces a 4-year bachelor degree program in Ceramic Art discipline which offers a unique opportunity to students to apply innovative ideas in form of functional and ornamental designs in clay, pottery, ceramic and glass mediums. The focus of academic catering is based on industrial process of manufacturing, which allow its students to develop an original design approach to conventional perceptions of design, supported by its reliance on a material point of departure and along with indigenous aesthetics. The courses of this degree program focus on knowledge of materials, learning of techniques and application of forms with function and ergonomics, with experimental approach and indigenous aesthetics. The combination of diverse courses offers students to develop understanding of the character and theory of design to an elevated level within the framework of analytical, practical and critical evaluation.

The graduates of this discipline can pursue their career in various directions including product design, tableware, furniture design, jewellery design, interior design, exterior design as well as industrial design. There is need and demand in emerging market from small manufactories to mega scale industries producing tableware, sanitary ware, tiles, functional and nonfunctional objects. There is a great gap to fill for designers to be employed in the industry.