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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ART 31A | Title:
BEGINNING CERAMICS |
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| Full Title:
Beginning Ceramics |
| Last Reviewed:10/22/2018 |
| 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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An introductory course in ceramics to develop wheel, hand-building, glaze application and decoration techniques.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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An introductory course in ceramics to develop wheel, hand-building, glaze application and decoration techniques.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
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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| 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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Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
1. Identify visual elements of ceramics such as scale, positive/
negative shape, volume, texture and color.
2. Apply basic techniques in using clay, glaze, tools, materials and
equipment.
3. Employ basic wheel and hand building techniques.
4. Develop basic glaze application and decoration techniques for both
functional and sculptural ceramics.
5. Make use of a working vocabulary to describe ceramic forms.
6. Demonstrate a creative process that includes disciplined work
habits, risk-taking and experimentation.
7. Exercise ability to make aesthetic and technical judgments through
class critiques.
8. Examine and analyze examples of historical and contemporary ceramics.
9. Define health and safety issues that arise from the use of ceramic
materials and equipment.
Topics and Scope
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1. Basic throwing forms on the potter's wheel.
A. Cylinders
B. Bowls
C. Cups
D. Simple lidded containers.
2. Hand-building ceramics techniques.
A. Pinching
B. Coiling
C. Soft/Hard Slab
3. Application and decoration of ceramic forms with pre-mixed glazes.
4. The use, care and safety for materials, tools and equipment.
A. Clay
B. Glaze
C. Color slip
D. Hand tools
E. Potter's wheel
F. Slab Roller
G. Kiln
5. Aesthetic and technical judgments of both functional and sculptural
forms in ceramics.
6. The concepts and elements of historical and contemporary ceramics.
Assignments:
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1. Use the potter's wheel to make 10-20 total pieces. A combination of
the following:
A. Cylinders
B. Bowls
C. Cups
D. Simple lidded jars
2. Utilize slab, coils and pinched clay to make sculptural objects.
The total number of objects will be determined by complexity and
size.
3. Decorate ceramic forms with inlay, sgraffitto, dipping, pouring,
spraying and by brushing.
4. Ceramics terminology quiz.
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 | |
| This is a degree applicable course but assessment tools based on writing are not included because skill demonstrations are more appropriate for this course. |
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| 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
65 - 75% |
| Class performances, Final exhibition of completed glazed work. | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
10 - 15% |
| Ceramics terminology quiz | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
15 - 20% |
| Attendance, effort, artistic growth and participation. | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Ceramics, Glen C. Nelson, Richard Burkett, 6th ed. Wordsworth, Thomson ,
Learning Inc., 2002.
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