A Ceramics Certificate of Achievement provides students with foundation-level technical knowledge, skills, and aesthetic judgement in preparation for advanced study in this area at a four-year institution or professional art school.  Students develop fundamental skillsets in forming, surface treatment, and firing.  These skills include hand building, wheel throwing, and other forming methods; sgraffito, wax resist, slip/engobe, and glazing techniques; and the use of electric or gas kilns, Raku, oxidization, reduction, and alternative firing environments.  The major can lead to a career focused on individual studio practice, industrial design, or ceramic or arts instruction at any educational level. 

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to: 

• Demonstrate basic drawing skills, color manipulation, and design principles in areas of emphasis.
• Demonstrate three-dimensional techniques in creating objects in selected areas of emphasis.
• Demonstrates the proper use of the camera and the basic techniques of analog and digital photography in selected areas of emphasis.
• Critically evaluate digital media and graphic communication design and production techniques and their use in selected areas of emphasis.
• Analyze works of art in terms of their historical contexts and social and cultural values.
• Analyze works of film and media, create and edit works of film including narrative and editorial.