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Overview
This course encourages you to develop practical skills through manufacture and to express yourself through design. You’ll be encouraged to study in-depth the construction of furniture, to develop and build designs and to hone your skills in cabinet making, upholstery and wood finishing.
This course is placed on the Scottish Credit Qualifications Framework at Level 8.
Minimum entry requirements
- HNC Furniture Craftmanship with Design; OR
- First-year HND Furniture Craftmanship with Design.
Applicants whose first language is not English should have minimum SQA ESOL National 5 or equivalent for NC/NQ courses and ESOL Higher or equivalent for HNC/D courses.
Additional selection requirements
- You'll be invited for a group and/or individual interview where you can find out more about the course and tell us why you're interested in this subject. At the interview, you'll be asked to provide examples of any design and/or making of furniture or 3D work.
What you study
- Furniture Construction.
- Furniture Materials.
- Machine Woodworking.
- Workshop Practice.
- Furniture History.
- Design Study.
- Power Tools.
- Techniques of Timber Fabrication.
- Methods of Upholstering and Finishing.
After the course
After completing the course you may go on to become self-employed Designers/Makers of furniture, as well as pursuing jobs in the furniture trades and shop-fitting.
Continuing Study
Students who complete their HND may also progress to year three of BA (Hons) Product Design at Glasgow Caledonian University.