The Jewelry Essentials program provides you with the skills and techniques necessary to begin a career in the jewelry industry. You will learn to saw, file, solder, grind, polish, and finish metals including copper, brass, silver, and gold. Fabrication and centrifugal casting techniques will be used to create jewelry pieces to high standards.

The Gemmology program teaches you to analyze and classify a wide variety of gem materials, both natural and artificially created. The program focuses on analyzing the chemical and physical characteristics of gem and gemlike materials and identifying different gems. The gem materials are classified into categories according to their desirable characteristics, which eventually determine the value of the gems. To accomplish the identification and classification, you use a number of specially designed instruments such as microscopes, spectroscopes, refractometers, polariscopes, and others.