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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ART 31A | Title:
BEGINNING POTTERY |
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| Full Title:
Beginning 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 hand-building methods of pottery. Glaze application and decoration techniques. Experiments in glaze making.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Art 3 or 5.
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Wheel & hand-building, glaze making & application.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Art 3 or 5.
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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| C-ID: |
| CID Descriptor: ARTS 230 | Introduction to Ceramics | SRJC Equivalent Course(s): ART31A |
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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The student will:
1. Explore the use of clays and glazes by means of a variety of methods.
2. Develop a working vocabulary of ceramic terms and a firsthand
understanding of their meanings.
3. Employ creative thinking skills (nonverbal and abstract forms of
thought) and exercise decision-making skills (aesthetic judgements)
inherent to the visual arts.
4. Practice aesthetic criticism and form analysis by participating in
class critiques of ceramic objects.
Topics and Scope
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1. Acquire the skill of using the potter's wheel.
2. Manipulate clay by means of a variety of handbuilding methods.
3. Decorate clay forms with colored clays and glazes.
4. Study a variety 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 clay cylinders and a series of
simple forms: mugs, vases, bowls.
2. Utilize slabs of clay to form geometric or organic-shaped objects.
3. Use clay itself as a decorative surface: scraping, stamping, incising
sprigging, applying colored slip.
4. Use glazes as a decorative surface: dipping, pouring, spraying, wax
resist, sgraffito.
5. Overglaze with oxides: brushed, spattered, wax resisted, poured.
6. Examine books and magazines devoted to ceramic art and techniques.
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 participatio | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Ceramics, Fifth Edition, Glenn Nelson
Introduction to Ceramics, Graham Flight
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