Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = .5 credit

Major Outcomes: 

• Basic ceramic design

• Creative problem solving

• Learn hand-building construction

• Basic wheel throwing

• Glazing techniques

• Emphasis on aesthetics and art criticism

Projects, activities, etc.: Thrown and hand-built pieces

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Prerequisite: Ceramics I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = .5 credit

Major Outcomes: 

• Advanced ceramic design

• Advanced hand building construction

• Advanced wheel throwing

• Advanced glazing techniques

• Develop sets/series of functional forms

• Continued emphasis on aesthetics and art criticism

Projects, activities, etc.: Sets of functional forms and sculptural ceramic pieces

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Prerequisite: Ceramics II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11 and 12

Credit: Course may be taken up to three trimesters, one trimester = .5 credit

Major Outcomes: 

• Offers students additional coursework to develop greater depth in studio discipline

• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics and art production

Projects, activities, etc.: Sets of functional forms and sculptural ceramic pieces