Description
This course introduces students to creating three-dimensional concepts in clay, emphasizing hand-building, glazing techniques, and surface treatments. Students will complete a variety of hand-building projects, learning the fundamentals of ceramics. Students may opt to also learn how to use a kiln for firing hand-built class projects. Note that this course does not include wheel-throwing, but prepares students for learning that skill in a subsequent course.
Designation
Diversification: Arts — DA
Course Student Learning Outcomes (CSLOs)
- Use hand-building techniques to produce finished ceramic objects.
- Engage in all phases of the creative problem-solving process to produce a finished ceramic project.
- Apply basic drawing techniques when notating, conceptualizing, and visually organizing a ceramic project.
- Demonstrate how colors, patterns, and shapes impact the final visual product.
- Use the professional terminology of the 2D and 3D visual arts to plan, describe, and evaluate ceramics projects and products.
- Explain how artists use creative problem-solving and choose specific techniques and processes to communicate ideas and themes through original visual media.
May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credits.