CERAMICS COURSES
Courses within the Ceramics program focus on both contemporary and traditional concerns, enabling students to incorporate both the conceptual and traditional aspects in their work. In addition to hand building methods and figure modeling students learn wheel thrown pottery-making and complex glazing and firing techniques. Extensive mixing, glazing, mold-making and casting equipment as well as seven electric kilns and salt, raku, car and sprung-arch gas fired kilns make up this comprehensive Ceramic facility. Studio space is available for advanced undergraduate students.
MFA
Students explore various areas of interest prior to focusing on a direction. Group critiques help develop this direction. While the focus has been on the sculptural approach to clay, emphasis on the vessel is not neglected. Classes concerning the chemical principles of Ceramics are required and students are encouraged to develop their own clay and glazes. A course in kiln design is periodically introduced and students can participate in the construction of a kiln. Students are also expected to investigate areas of a specialized nature such as mixed media, or areas that are not offered as a regular part of curriculum, course content such as figure modeling, glass and slipcasting. Extensive clay mixing, glazing, mold-making and casting equipment as well as seven electric kilns and salt, raku, car and sprung-arch kilns and glass area make a professional study of Ceramics possible.
Each graduate student has a private studio which opens to either the hand building or throwing studios. Students are able to utilize these studios as well as a large covered outdoor space.
MFA - Ceramics
4 Semesters - 60 Credits
credits
First Semester
ART 563 Independent Study/Ceramics 3 ART 564 Directed Research & Projects 3
ARH 598 Seminar in Contemporary American Art 3
ART 604 Seminar in Studio Art 3
Elective 3
Second Semester
ART 561 Clay Bodies and Glazes 3
ART 563 Independent Study/Ceramics 6
ART 506 Problems in Art 3
___ ___ Elective 3
Third Semester
ART 661 Ceramics 3
ART 603 Problems in Studio Art 3
ARH 505 Problems in Art History 3
ART 604 Seminar in Studio Art 3
Elective 3
Fourth Semester
ART 662 Ceramics 3
ART 603 Problems in Studio Art 3
Elective 3
ART 710 Master’s Thesis 3
Total: 60
As electives: Figure modeling in Clay is offered as well as Intro to Glass Techniques and Independent Studies in Glass.