Academic Programs - Butte College

Associate in Arts Degree in Ceramics

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Total Units: 60 - 65

Term 1

15.00 - 16.00 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.

	Course Name	Units
	ART 8: Drawing I	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU/UC Contact Hours: 25.50 hours Lecture / 76.50 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 51.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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).
	ART 50: Beginning Ceramics	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU/UC Contact Hours: 25.50 hours Lecture / 76.50 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 51.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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.
	Select one:	3.00
ART-7: 2-D Foundations (3.00 units) ART-9: 3-D Foundation (3.00 units)
	Area 1A Choice (See GE Guide)	3.00 - 4.00

	Area 6 Choice (See GE Guide)	3.00

Term 2

15.00 - 17.00 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.

	Course Name	Units	Notes
	ART 52: Ceramics II	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU/UC Contact Hours: 34.00 hours Lecture / 51.00 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 68.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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.
	Select one: Meets Area 3A	3.00
ART-2: Prehistoric to Gothic Art (3.00 units) ART-4: Renaissance to Contemporary (3.00 units)
	Area 2 Choice (See GE Guide)	3.00 - 5.00

	Area 4 Choice (See GE Guide)	3.00

	Elective (any course numbered 1-99 or C1000-C1999)	3.00	Only necessary if the 60 units needed to graduate have not been completed. Consider taking a Cal-GETC General Education course. Visit www.assist.org to see options.

Term 3

15 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.

	Course Name	Units	Notes
	ART 54: Ceramics III - Low Fire	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU/UC Contact Hours: 34.00 hours Lecture / 51.00 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 68.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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.
	ART 60: Sculpture I	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU/UC Contact Hours: 25.50 hours Lecture / 76.50 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 51.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 This course is an introduction to three-dimensional sculptural principles, techniques, and concepts utilizing a wide range of materials and practices. Various sculpture methods are practiced with attention to creative self-expression and historical context.
	Area 1B/C Choice (See GE Guide)	3.00

	Elective (any course numbered 1-99 or C1000-C1999)	6.00	Only necessary if the 60 units needed to graduate have not been completed. Consider taking a Cal-GETC General Education course. Visit www.assist.org to see options.

Term 4