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2022-2023 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
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ART 115 - Ceramics I


Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-C1
Introduction to ceramics materials, concepts, and processes including basic design principles, creative development, hand-building, throwing, glaze techniques, firing and ceramic terminology. Course covers aesthetics and creative development of clay objects examining historical, contemporary, and personal modes of expression across cultures.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: ART 103 .
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-C1 - Lower Division Arts
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
  1. Differentiate clay varieties and ceramic processes;
  2. Create ceramic forms utilizing pinch, coil, soft slab, hard slab and throwing techniques;
  3. Analyze and demonstrate existing ceramic pieces and distinguish the forming processes used in creating them throughout history;
  4. Produce and apply surface treatment to a variety of different forms;
  5. Examine and describe historical and contemporary developments, trends, materials, and approaches in ceramics;
  6. Assess and critique ceramics in group, individual, and written contexts using relevant critique formats, concepts and terminology;
  7. Safely handle and use all studio equipment, tools, and materials.


C1. Arts Learning Outcomes
  1. Demonstrate an appreciation of the arts using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
  2. respond to aesthetic experiences in the arts and develop an understanding of the integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses; and
  3. in their intellectual and subjective considerations, demonstrate an understanding of the relationship among the self, the creative arts, and culture.



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