Bachelor’s programme Ceramics and glass

Craft is a unique platform from which to ask complex questions about ourselves and our world. On this programme you will have the opportunity to develop your skills in expressing yourself through glass and ceramics, and to critically reflect on your own practice and understand it from a wider social perspective. Through the materials of ceramics and glass we explore and challenge what craft can be.

The aim of the programme is to enable you to develop your ability to express yourself through our materials glass and ceramics. You also get the opportunity to develop your ability to critically reflect on your own practice and understand it from a broader societal perspective. Through our materials, ceramics and glass, we investigate and challenge the notions of what crafts is and can be.

We provide well-equipped workshops for practical work. The ceramics workshop comprises a plaster and kiln room, a glaze laboratory, large open spaces for casting, modelling, turning and glazing as well as a clay-working room. The glass workshop offers a studio for blowing glass, plate glass, furnace casting, slumping and fusing techniques and there is also a cold glass workshop for grinding, blasting and engraving. You will also have access to the woodwork, metalwork and sculpture workshops.

Our teachers are highly qualified and during the programme they will act as supervisors in their own areas of expertise. You will also be studying art, design and the history and theory of applied art together with students on other programmes.

Theory and practice alternate during the programme, in which you will constantly be encouraged to think and create critically and independently. The programme is linked to the world around us through guest teachers, external lecturers and the professional activities of the teachers. We endeavour to adopt an active and aware approach to the development of individual practice through involvement in the current social and subject-specific discourse.

Language of instruction
Teaching, tutoring, and examinations are mainly conducted in Swedish.

Credits and form of study
180 credits (3 years), full-time, daytime, on campus.

Degree
Degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Crafts, Ceramics and Glass.

After graduation
Many artists are self-employed. The areas in which they work vary: ranging from their own projects or artistic commissions for public authorities to teaching in the field of art.

Entry requirements and selection
General entry requirements for higher education.

The selection is made on artistic grounds and is based on assessment of artistic portfolio, project proposal and interview.

Language test
The undergraduate programs are conducted in Swedish. For applicants with a foreign upper-secondary school education that lack qualifications in Swedish, a TISUS test is required. TISUS is recognised by all universities in Sweden as a statement of eligibility in the Swedish language. For more information please go to www.su.se/svefler/tisus.

Application and Applicant assignment 2025

Please go to the Swedish version to apply and read the Applicant assignment for 2025