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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to the Professional Craft program or department approval Corequisites: None This course introduces veneering, marquetry, and inlay techniques as means of decorating surfaces in wood design. Emphasis is placed on hands-on experience in veneering, marquetry, and inlay techniques using tools, materials, process, and design applications. Upon completion, students should be able to design and produce a sample of various techniques and develop design applications.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to the Professional Craft program or department approval Corequisites: None This course covers various types of wood bending methods used in furniture design. Topics include bent lamination, steam bending, and molded plywood methods with emphasis on mold making, clamping systems, and design applications. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate mold making, clamping systems, and design applications for laminating, steam bending, and molding plywood.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to the Professional Craft program or department approval Corequisites: None This course covers the design and methods of using composite materials in woodworking. Topics include the use of composite materials such as plywood, m.d.f., particle board, and plastic laminate and their design and construction methods. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate a series of technical exercises and designs and make an object utilizing composite materials.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to the Professional Craft program or department approval Corequisites: None This course covers the design and making of various tools, machines, and woodworking shop accessories. Topics include the design and making of router tables, hand planes, clamping devices and machine accessories that involve the use of existing tools. Upon completion, students should be able to design and make accessories that will enhance their woodworking skills.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to the Professional Craft program or department approval Corequisites: None This course covers both hand and machine methods of carving, including applications for furniture design and sculptured objects. Topics include the use of hand carving tools, gouges, rasps, spoke shaves, and machines (rotary carvers, grinders, chain saws) and design applications of carving. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate the care and use of carving tools and their application to furniture design.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None This course covers the use of the wood lathe for both furniture and accessory design applications. Topics include spindle and face plate turning with emphasis on tools, sharpening, sanding, and projects including candle holders, furniture parts, and bowls. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate wood lathe skills through various turning samples and finished objects.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None This course covers wood finishing options with hand, brush, and spray applications, including special finishing effects. Topics include finish compositions, including oils, varnish, lacquer, paint, dyes, and stains, and special techniques such as fuming, bleaching, and pickling. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate various special finishing techniques and skills through samples and completed projects.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to the Professional Craft program or department approval Corequisites: None This course covers the design and construction of various seating functions and the associated woodworking technology for chair-making. Topics include design of chair prototypes, testing of structures, advanced woodbending, carving, jigs and fixtures, and coloring methods of finishing. Upon completion, students should be able to design, test, and make a chair and demonstrate various advanced specialty woodworking techniques.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to the Professional Craft program or department approval Corequisites: None This course covers case goods design and construction through an independent project that demonstrates professionalism in a craft business. Topics include the study of various case goods' functions such as dressers, desks, and cabinets and the independent development of a professional quality project. Upon completion, students should be able to design and make a casework piece of furniture and demonstrate professionalism in a project of their choice.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to the Professional Craft program or department approval Corequisites: None This course covers the daily operations and management of a woodworking business and the design, planning, and cost analysis of a woodworking shop. Topics include record keeping, time studies, estimating, cost analysis, and overhead and the design, organization, and cost of setting up a woodworking business. Upon completion, students should be able to keep appropriate operations records related to developing overhead and plan and cost out a woodworking shop.
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