ART 215 - Ceramics II

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-C1
Developing expertise with core techniques and adding skills with new materials, concepts, and processes including complex hand-building, wheel throwing, a variety of glaze techniques, and firings. Exploration, analysis and comparison of clay works both personal and across cultures.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: ART 102, ART 103, ART 104.
Prerequisites: ART 115.
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:

Expand the ability to analyze and demonstrate the forming processes used in creating across cultures;
Produce and apply intermediate surface treatments including layering slips, underglazes, cone 5 glazes, raku, and pit or saggar firings;
Examine and describe contemporary developments, trends, materials, and approaches in ceramics in the broader context of 3D Art and Design;
lazes, raku, and pit or saggar firings;
Identify and understand the procedures and methods of different types of kiln firing.

C1. Arts Learning Outcomes

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