Certificate of Achievement in Ceramics
2023-2024 Map
Total Units: 18
Term 1
6 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.| Course Name | Units | Notes | |
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| ART 8: Drawing I | 3.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course is an introduction to principles, elements, and practices of drawing, employing a wide range of subject matter and drawing media. Focus on perceptually based drawing, observational skills, technical abilities, and creative responses is placed on materials and subject matter. (C-ID ARTS 110). |
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| ART 50: Beginning Ceramics | 3.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course is an introduction to ceramics materials, concepts, and processes, including basic design principles, creative development, hand-building, throwing (potter's wheel), glaze techniques, firing and ceramic terminology. Students will experiment with a variety of forms, glazes, and other surface treatments, and will be introduced to historical as well as contemporary ceramic artworks. |
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Term 2
6 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.| Course Name | Units | Notes | |
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| ART 52: Ceramics II | 3.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course is an exploration of clay as a medium of expression, using the potter's wheel and/or hand-building techniques to create sculptural and functional forms. Students will continue to develop techniques in basic wheel-throwing and/or hand-building, clay body formulation, surface enrichment techniques, and kiln firing. Students will also become familiar with historical as well as contemporary ceramic artworks. |
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| ART 70: Gallery Production/Business of Art | 2.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 2.00
This course will deal with the various aspects of operating an educationally directed art gallery including scheduling, lighting, publicity, security, budget, receptions, show themes and reviews. The Butte College Coyote Gallery will function as the class laboratory, and approximately two to three shows will be organized and installed each semester. (Annual student show in Spring semester). In addition, students will learn the business of art in order to be able to successfully compete in the professional market place. |
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| ART 99: Work Experience-ART | 1.00 | ||
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Prerequisite(s): Permission of Cooperative Work Experience Education instructor and employment supervisor Career Work Experience (CWE) is a course that gives students the opportunity to earn both a grade and units for what they learn on the job related to their vocational major while gaining practical work experience. Students may earn one semester unit of college credit in this course for every sixty hours of unpaid work experience (60-480 hours unpaid) or seventy-five hours of paid work experience (75-600 hours paid). Students may earn a maximum of sixteen units for all types of Work Experience. This course may be repeated to a maximum of 8.00 units to complete the entire curriculum of the course. |
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Term 3
6 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.| Course Name | Units | Notes | |
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| ART 54: Ceramics III - Low Fire | 3.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course expands on the hand-building and wheel-throwing skills learned in the introductory class, with an emphasis on a variety of low-fire glaze and surface techniques, setting up additional possibilities for creative expression. |
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| ART 56: Ceramics IV | 3.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course is an in-depth exploration of clay as a medium of expression, with emphasis on individual ideas and directions. Students will concentrate on creating a personal vocabulary of imagery, construction methods, and surface treatments, and will develop and draw upon a broad awareness of historical as well as contemporary ceramic artworks. |
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