ART 215 - Ceramics II

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-3A
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.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-3A - Arts and Humanities (Arts)
Prerequisites: ART 115.
Strongly Recommended Preparation: ART 102, ART 103, ART 104.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground.
Grading: A-F grading only.
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;
Show proficiency in the skills required to assess and critique ceramics in group, individual, and written contexts using relevant critique formats, concepts and terminology;
Identify and understand the procedures and methods of different types of kiln firing.

GE-3A. 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.