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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, 7 hours (1-0-6) In this course students learn to mount four- and six-prong settings and their placement on jewelry. Students learn to set round stones in dome, cluster, strip, gypsy, tiffany, and flush settings; also included are topics such as diamond characteristics and their grading and the measuring of stones to ensure correct ordering of crowns. Upon completion, students will be able to set round stones in various mountings, using their knowledge of the makeup of a round, brilliant, facetted diamond.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, 7 hours (1-0-6) This course covers the fabrication and customizing of crowns to fit odd-sized stones. Content includes pave, channel, tube, and bezel mountings, as well as knowledge and folklore of birth stones. Upon completion, students will be able to set difficult mountings by adapting the crown to fit the stone's seat.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, 7 hours (1-0-6) Prerequisite: WAR 121 & 122, or approval of instructor This course teaches students the nomenclature of escapement parts, operation, and repairs. Course content includes detailed procedures enabling the student to complete balance staff installation, poising, truing, and the replacement of pallet and roller jewels. Upon completion, students will be able to assemble and disassemble a watch escapement and will have acquired proficiency in replacing a balance staff and jewels.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, 7 hours (1-0-6) Prerequisite: WAR 121 & 122, or approval of instructor This course is designed to teach students the necessary steps involved in repairing and troubleshooting automatic and calendar watch movements. Emphasis is placed on obtaining speed and accuracy when servicing multifunctional watches with little instructor supervision. Upon completion, students will be able to successfully service multifunctional and complicated watch movements.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, 7 hours (1-0-6) Prerequisite: WAR 121 & 122, or approval of instructor This course covers the identification of collectible time pieces, the history of American watch companies, and valuations. Included topics are estimating repairs, pocket watch and case servicing, antique wrist watch restoration, and dial repair, as well as emphasis on professional attitudes, customer relations, and good work habits. Upon completion, students will be able to identify collectible timepieces and their manufacturer, estimate repairs, and restore antique cases and movements.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, 7 hours (1-0-6) Prerequisite: WAR 121 & 122, or approval of instructor This is a comprehensive course on quartz timepieces. Course content includes nomenclature of parts, cleaning, testing, disassembly and reassembly of both analog and digital quartz timepieces, quartz movement retro-fitting, and dial feet replacement, as well as proper and safe methods of handling parts and electronic components. Upon completion, students will be able to successfully repair both analog and digital quartz timepieces.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, 7 hours (1-0-6) In this course, students learn to set fancy-shaped stones such as marquise, emerald, pear, and oval. Included is the hands-on placement of fancy crowns in shanks and mountings, as well as the use of findings catalogs to order crowns and stones. Upon completion, students will be able to set a variety of fancy-cut stones and solder their crowns to mountings.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, 7 hours (1-0-6) This course covers the art of custom designing jewelry through the ability to draw on paper what a customer wants in detail, then order or make the needed findings to make up a custom piece of jewelry. Special topics include crown placement, findings, mountings, and catalog knowledge, as well as an emphasis on customer communications, professional attitudes, and future employment. Upon completion, students will be able to re-design, custom design, and assembly by following the customer's work-order instructions.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, 7 hours (1-0-6) This course covers the art and science of the lost wax casting process. Included are centrifugal and vacuum casting, wax model set-up, investing, the burn-out cycle, and professionally finished castings, as well as the safe use of the tools, equipment, and materials needed to alloy cast jewelry. Upon completion, students will be able to centrifugal and vacuum cast and to refinish castings to a fine finish.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, 7 hours (1-0-6) In this course, students learn all aspects of hand and machine wax carving. Course content includes custom design drawing, wax injecting, rubber mold vulcanizing, and mold cutting for reproduction; the proper and safe use of tools to attain close tolerances is required. Upon completion, students will be able to draw a customer's design, carve it in wax, and prepare it for casting.
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