Sep 18, 2025  
2025-2026 Academic Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Academic Catalog
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ART 1120 - Ceramics: Handbuilding + Surfacing


Credits: 3
Course Type: Studio

In this class, students will learn the basics of handbuilding and surfacing. They will practice essential handbuilding construction methods, including coil building, slab construction, and pinch and press molding. Students will learn application techniques of surface design slips, underglazes, inlay, sgraffito, terra sigillata, glazes, and decals, and confidently fire electric and raku kilns. Students will investigate new ways of creating work through experimentation and collaboration using a variety of techniques.

Prerequisites: FD 2130 - 3D Design: Space + Materiality  or ART 1020 - Introduction to Ceramics  

Notes: Fine Arts and Art Education students have priority seating within this course.

(Formerly FA 1160 Ceramics I, FAC 2750 Ceramics I, FAC 3250 Ceramic Sculpture II: Tools, Techniques, Process; ART 1110 Ceramics I)

Campus Only




Course Learning Outcomes:
  • Identify ceramic vocabulary, terms, and processes.
  • Create ceramic works using hand-building methods.
  • Apply ceramic surfacing techniques.
  • Develop an understanding of historical and contemporary ceramics.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in firing electric and raku kilns.

ART 1120 Course Learning Outcome Rubric    



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