- Fee:NPR 470,000
Offering Colleges
The Bachelor of Craft and Design program is a four-year undergraduate degree that prioritizes experiential learning, enabling students to learn through hands-on experiences and reflect upon them. By engaging in experiential learning, students can evaluate and analyze their own practices. This approach encourages students to take the initiative and actively participate intellectually, creatively, emotionally, socially, and physically.
The program is offered by the School of Arts and the School of Engineering, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of the practical, historical, and philosophical aspects of craft and design. Through innovative teaching methodologies, students are equipped with the necessary competencies to thrive in the national and international job market, receiving a high-quality education.
Throughout the course, students will explore the history of craft and design, as well as current trends and techniques. They will work with a wide range of materials and processes, including metal, wood, jewelry, stone, ceramics, natural fibers, animal products, textiles, and digital fabrication. This exposure allows students to develop a diverse skill set and the ability to experiment with different materials, which can be applied to various craft and design disciplines such as furniture design, fashion design, product design, interior design, and more. Students will also gain practical experience through independent projects and peer learning seminars, enabling them to excel in their craft practice and develop their unique design styles and approaches.
To enhance their knowledge, students will have the opportunity to enroll in elective courses that focus on developing specialized and interdisciplinary skill sets, fostering a deeper understanding of their specific areas of interest.
Salient Features
Why Bachelor of Craft and Design?
- Opportunity to apply what you've learned in the classroom and in the studio under faculty supervision in a real-world context. You'll gain knowledge of what it takes to satisfy clients' expectations and confidence that will help you as you start your career.
- The necessity of fusing the indigenous knowledge and generational skills of local artisans with the inventions and technical advances of designers and engineers.
- To fulfil the potential to express yourself with the skill of craft and exploration of a design sense.
Aims
- To provide the opportunity for academic advancement to the traditionally-trained craft persons and encourage them to be more adaptable, resourceful, and creative for domestic and international markets.
- To foster students’ technical abilities in craft and design subjects and develop creativity, originality, and inventiveness in skill-based craft practices, design, and production technology.
- To propagate the urgency to collaborate between existing craft practices with innovation in design and technological advancement, recognize the evolving craft industry landscape, and prepare them for a sustainable future through craft and design.
- To educate students with fundamental and advanced knowledge in craft and design and to prepare them to work across other disciplines, such as manufacturing and technology industries.
- To introduce students to the various disciplines of crafts and design as a professional, service-oriented, and career-oriented discipline and to assist them in pursuing additional training in these fields.
Teaching and Learning Strategies
Bachelor of Craft and Design is designed an experiential-learning program to be continuously supported and monitored by master artisans, designers, engineers, artists, cultural experts, craft leaders, social scientists and professionals of the fields. Every individual subject will be instructed and managed by experts of the concerned areas. The independent practices are planned as intensive studio works at selected craft-workshops either mentored by experts or as on-the-job trainings. The frequent visits to different related experts, organizations and institutions will be a part of regular academic calendar. This course is intended to participatory class tutorials, continuous studio practices, home assignments, research and writings and self-motivated or guided projects.
The main teaching strategies are –
- Studio-based supervised sessions, demonstrations and presentations covering different aspects of craft and design under guidance of experts.
- Practical sessions as introductory sessions to art, design and engineering workshops.
- Theory tutorials with interactive and participatory sessions using multimedia projection, interdisciplinary teaching methodology and as supplementary modules to the main practical components.
- Competitive and innovative projects as self-motivated or tutored assignments.
- Self-tailored electives and craft practices as experiential learning.
- Regular visit to experts, organizations, internship and apprenticeship, research projects, community-based projects and developing liaison with professionals for the future purposes.
Language of Instruction
All lectures and written work will be in English and Nepali. Examinations will be in English as well as in Nepali.
Eligibility
Higher Secondary (+2), or equivalent qualification in any discipline with minimum 40% aggregate.
Who Can Apply?
- A creative thinker who is looking to advance their craft- related abilities and explore the potential of design to advance local craftsmanship.
- Artists/Professionals who are working in a field of craft and want to embrace knowledge with technology for more update in the craft sector
Fees
The total fee for Nepali students enrolled in Bachelor in Craft and Design program for the academic year 2079/80 (2022 Batch) is NPR. 470,000.
The fee structure for international students seeking admission to Bachelor of Craft and Design program at Kathmandu University (KU) is as follows:
- The fees for applicants from SAARC countries will be 1.5 times the amount specified for domestic students i.e. NPR.705,000
- On the other hand, international students from countries outside of SAARC will be required to pay double the fees stated for domestic students i.e. NPR 940,000
Job Prospects
- Craft Project Manager
- Craft Entrepreneur
- Craft Merchandiser
- Metal Caster
- Wood Carver
- Stone Carver
- Corporate Crafts Personnel
- Policy Maker
- Craft Production Manager
- Fiber Artist
- Product Designer
- Ceramic Artist
- Craft Educator
Curricular Structure
Course Structure
| SEMESTER I | 15 Credits |
| CDNA 111 Nepali Arts and Craft Studies | 3 |
| ENGG *** Engineering Workshop I | 3 |
| CDAS 143 Art Studio and Practice I | 3 |
| CDIP 151 Independent Practice I | 6 |
| SEMESTER II | 15 Credits |
| MEEG *** Materials, Methods, Tools and Techniqque | 3 |
| ENGG *** Engineering Workshop II | 3 |
| CDAS 144 Art Studio and Practice II | 3 |
| CDIP 152 Independant Practice II | 6 |
| SEMESTER III | 15 Credits |
| CDWA 211 World Arts and Craft Studies | 3 |
| CDDB 241 Design Basics I | 3 |
| EDRG *** Technical Drawing I | 3 |
| CDIP 253 Independant Practice III | 5 |
| SEMESTER IV | 15 Credits |
| CDDT 212 Design Thinking | 3 |
| CDDB 242 Design Basics II | 3 |
| EDRG *** Technical Drawing II | 3 |
| CDIP 254 Independant Practice IV | 6 |
| SEMESTER V | 15 Credits |
| MEEG *** Production Planning for Craft | 3 |
| CDDS 341 Design Studio I | 3 |
| CIP 355 Independant Practice V | 0 |
| SEMESTER VI | 15 Credits |
| CDBS 312 Business Skills for Craft | 3 |
| CDDS 342 Design Studio II | 3 |
| CDIP 356 Independant Practice VI | 9 |
| SEMESTER VII | 15 Credits |
| CDRD 411 Craft Research and Documentation | 3 |
| CDDS 443 Design Studio III | 3 |
| CDIP 457 Independant Practice VII | 9 |
| SEMESTER VIII | 15 Credits |
| CDCF 412 Craft and Future | 3 |
| CDCP 461 Capstone Project | 9 |
| CDEP 462 Echibition and Promotion | 3 |
Students can enroll in elective courses as per availability.