ARTS 2050 - Ceramics

4.5 Credits

Students learn basic ceramic processes, concepts, and conceptual development. Students will develop technical skills while fabricating a variety of objects through wheel throwing and hand-building techniques. Students will also investigate ceramic history, clay types, and firing and finishing methods.

Lecture Hours: 2.5
Lab Hours: 6.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives
1. Create ceramic objects using the clay fabrication techniques of hand-building, wheel-throwing and direct modeling.

2. Create ceramic objects that demonstrate the acquisition of manual skills related to clay work.

3. Create ceramic objects that demonstrate the influence of art history, multicultural issues, and aesthetics as they apply to ceramics.

4. Identify the processes of creating, glazing and firing various clay bodies at various temperatures.

5. Research ceramic objects in standard literature of the studio ceramics, e.g. books and journals.

6. Create ceramic objects using standard health and safety procedures.

7. Critique ceramic objects using appropriate vocabulary.

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