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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None This course surveys the origins and influences of American craft from the late 19th century to the present. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between period stylistic trends in craft, the arts, and architecture and larger societal influences. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of design movements and social events of the 20th century and their influence on American craft.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None This course introduces the concepts and processes of 35mm studio photography for the professional crafter. Topics include the 35mm camera and related equipment, basic studio lighting theory, simple to advanced lighting techniques, composition, print and slide evaluation, and marketing applications. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the 35mm camera and related equipment, studio lighting, and composition and complete an entry-level portfolio.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None This course introduces marketing and business planning as applied to hand crafts and development of a written marketing plan. Emphasis is placed on self-evaluation, goal setting, development of a business idea, presentation skills, professional image, and organizing and writing a marketing plan. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate realistic craft marketing goals, individual presentation skills, and professional image and organize, write, and present a marketing plan.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: PCR 212 Corequisites: None This course covers financial information and small business skills needed to develop a written business plan combining a craft marketing plan and studio planning. Topics include business plan analysis, break-even point, cash flow, filing systems, operations, policies, manual and computerized bookkeeping, writing, and presentational skills. Upon completion, students should be able to write a craft business plan, project a cash flow statement, explain break-even point, and establish filing and record systems. Professional Crafts : Wood
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to the Professional Craft program or department approval Corequisites: None This course introduces the properties of wood, basic machine and tool use and safety, box design and construction, and various furniture joinery for woodworkers. Topics include the technical study of wood, hand woodworking methods of box making, assorted box and framing joinery, and hand finishing methods. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate woodworking joinery, box design and construction techniques, and knowledge of wood properties and their effect on furniture design.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: PCW 110 and admission to the Professional Craft program or department approval Corequisites: None This course introduces design embellishment techniques and design and construction of various furniture functions through the use of framing structures. Topics include designing and making mirror frames, stools, benches, coffee tables, and dining tables, with emphasis on specialty techniques such as wood bending, veneering, and finishing. Upon completion, students should be able to design and make furniture and accessories utilizing framing construction and specialty design techniques.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to the Professional Craft program or department approval Corequisites: None This course covers the design, construction, and cost analysis of small-scale production items targeting various price points. Topics include basic market research, production, jigs and fixtures, time studies, and the making of various production prototypes such as lamps, cutting boards, and boxes. Upon completion, students should be able to design, make, and cost out production items for various price points.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None This course introduces the concepts, techniques, and tools of freehand and mechanical drawing as applied to furniture design and construction. Emphasis is placed on basic drafting conventions and techniques, freehand drawing skills, orthographic and isometric drawing, conceptual drawing, and working and presentation drawings. Upon completion, students should be able to utilize the design process beginning with an idea and progressing through conceptual, working, and presentation drawings.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None This course introduces the concepts and techniques of graph-generated perspective drawing and basic pencil rendering techniques as applied to furniture design. Emphasis is placed on basic concepts of perspective and freehand perspective drawing, use of various perspective grids, perspective shadowing, and basic pencil rendering techniques. Upon completion, students should be able to produce both freehand and mechanical perspective drawings from the conceptual stage through finished pencil rendering.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None This course covers the historical development of furniture design of western civilization from ancient Egyptian society through the twentieth century. Topics include design themes, styles, and furniture functions of major historical periods from King Tut to late twentieth-century independent designer craftsmen. Upon completion, students should be able to recognize sources of historical design themes and contemporary applications of design in woodworking.
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