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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ART 31C | Title:
ADVANCED POTTERY |
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| Full Title:
Advanced Pottery |
| Last Reviewed:3/10/2025 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 2.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 35.00 |
| Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 4.00 | 5 min. | Lab Scheduled | 70.00 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 6.00 | | Contact Total | 105.00 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 70.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 175.00 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
Catalog Description:
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Wheel and handbuilding problems. Functional and non-functional advanced experiments in glazemaking.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Art 31B or equivalent
Recommended Preparation:
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Wheel & handbuilding. Functional & nonfunctional. Advanced glaze experimentation.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Art 31B or equivalent
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
| Associate Degree: | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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| UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Certificate Applicable Course
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Continue to explore the use of clays and glazes in search of a more
personal expression.
2. Acquire the specific skills used in glaze formulation and experimen-
tation.
3. Continue to expand creative thinking skills (nonverbal and abstract
forms of thought) and to refine decision-making skills (aesthetic
judgments) inherent to the visual arts.
4. Refine visual perception skills and their applications to the search
for a personal aesthetic.
5. Continue the examination of historical and contemporary pottery in
order to better understand one's own and others' efforts in pottery
making.
6. Practice aesthetic criticism and form analysis by participating in
advanced class discussions of work.
Topics and Scope
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1. Continue to refine the skill of using the potter's wheel.
2. Continue the exploration of handbuilding methods.
3. Explore the methods of glaze calculation.
4. Continue the study of ceramic objects, contemporary and ancient, by
means of photographs and hands-on examination.
Assignments:
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1. Use the potter's wheel to create objects of greater complexity:
teapots, assembled forms, larger objects.
2. Refine the use of handbuilding methods -- slab, coil, pinch -- to
create forms of greater size and/or complexity.
3. Complete a series of line and color blends for glazes.
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
75 - 100% |
| A final exhibit of completed work will be the major basis for course grade Other factors include attendance, effort, artistic growth, and performance | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Ceramics, Fifth Edition, Glenn Nelson
Ceramics, Philip Ranson
Introduction to Ceramics, Graham Flight
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