جامعة النجاح الوطنية
An-Najah National University
Ceramic Art
Duration: 48 Months (4 Years)
Degree Awarded: Bachelor
Student must complete 125 credit hours

University Requirements Student must complete 19 credit hours

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours Prerequests
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Remedial English (E10032100) is a three-hour non-credited English course offered to students who score poorly (i.e. below 50%) on the placement test. Since the major concern of this course is to improve the students? proficiency before starting their ordinary university English basic courses and major courses taught in English, special emphasis has been placed on enhancing the students? ability to effectively acquire the four language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Specifically, the course attempts to ensure an academically acceptable performance on the part of the students at the level of the English basic courses. Moreover, the course aims at expanding students? vocabulary needed for various tasks.
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This course aims to establish the concept of Islamic culture and its position among the other international cultures, its position in the Muslim life, its sources, its bases and its characteristics. It also aims to introduce the Islamic culture in faith, worship, relations, morals, and knowledge, to discuss the clash between cultures in addition to Globalization, Human Rights, Woman Rights, Democracy and other contemporary issues.
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This course aims to improve the level of students in language skills and various literary, read and absorb and express written, and oral and tasted literary, through texts flags authors and poets in different eras, lessons in grammar and spelling, and brief definition months dictionaries and Arab old ones the modern and how to use them. This course aims to implement the Arabic language in the areas of reading and expression of both types oral and written communication.
3
University English I (E11000103) is a three credit-hour university-required English language course designed for students who need to work on the four skills of the language: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The development of vocabulary and skills of comprehension are integral parts of the course. In addition, various reading strategies (making predictions, identifying main ideas, reading for details, relating information in the text to life experience) are introduced and developed through a wide range of topics for reading and writing. The course encourages a more analytical and independent approach to study and helps prepare the students for any subsequent exam preparation.
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The course is mandatory for university students from various disciplines, so it provides students with knowledge and `information about the Palestinian reality and in particular the political developments of the Palestinian cause since its inception until the present day in line social and economic developments and political which constitute the main pillars for the study of the Palestinian political reality. This course aims to study Palestinian issue from its begging until present day in social, economic and political issue.
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This course aims to familiarize students with community institutions and their contribution through voluntary efforts to serve these institutions to achieve the SDGs. Students are required to complete a minimum of 50 hours of community service to successfully pass the course. Additionally, students must attend 6 guidance sessions on volunteer work and participate in intensive training for selected community service programs if they choose to engage in such programs.
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The course aims to assist students in acquiring modern concepts in the field of communication and understanding the essential skills for effective communication with oneself and others. This is achieved through the use of effective teaching methods that rely on student engagement and motivation to learn through training and self-directed learning. The course emphasizes skill development through teamwork and interactive methods, helping students improve their verbal and non-verbal communication skills by learning public speaking and the fundamentals of oration. Additionally, it helps students develop active listening skills, and contributes to enhancing their abilities in dialogue and persuasion, overcoming public speaking anxiety, self-promotion, negotiation, job interviews, presentation and delivery, and writing. The course also provides students with knowledge about innovative and creative ideas that can be implemented, as well as how to write a resume. Furthermore, the course aims to refine students' personalities through participation in group presentations.
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This course aims to enrich students with the basic computer skills alongside with the theoretical and practical backgrounds behind those skills. First of all, software and hardware components of a computer are discussed. This forms the substrate from which a student can realize the practical applications of a computer, especially in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thereafter, the student awareness for the security vulnerabilities of a computer system is improved through discussing the threats associated with the absolute dependability on the Internet in storing critical data. This is conducted with presenting the basic secure Internet frameworks for students with emphasis on scientific research platforms (ResearchGate, Google Scholar, LinkedIn,?etc). Finally, word processing, statistical analysis and presentation software are discussed with practical applications in the lab.
3
University English II is a three-credit hour university-required English language course specifically designed to meet the needs of the students of the humanities and social sciences. The instructors of the course will employ a broad-based approach by integrating the four language skills, in order to enable students to improve their reading skills and comprehension of a variety of academic texts and to provide their own input by expressing their opinions on the topics under discussion, through either verbal participation in class or written assignments at home. As the discussions in class will be held in English, this is hoped to enhance the listening comprehension of students as well as provide them with opportunities to exercise their speaking skills. The units in the prescribed textbook have been organized according to the various strategies that students need to practice in order to improve their speed and comprehension, particularly while reading on an academic subject in English. These strategies include understanding vocabulary in context, using the dictionary, understanding information from graphs and charts, scanning for specific information, taking notes from reading, studying collocations ?. etc. In Addition to the texts set for intensive reading, six more passages are also considered as self ? reading passages so as to encourage students to read at home and contact their instructors.

Speciality Requirements Student must complete 94 credit hours

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours Prerequests
11201101 Introduction to Musicology 2
2
Studying the musical production of the Palestinian people, and identifying the style of popular music. Palestinian, and analysis of popular music at the instrumental and lyrical levels. Research into the characteristics of instrumental music and its popular singing features. Study and analysis of the various forms and templates of popular music. Identifying examples of popular songs and types of popular musical instruments, in terms of their manufacture, sound structure, and methods of playing them.
3
This course acquaints students with three-dimensional design and its artistic components through the implementation of objects and designs of three- dimensions and through working with different types of raw materials necessary for making and forming such objects.
2
This course introduces students to four main arts (visual, musical, theatrical and architectural) and the focus is on the main relations between those arts. Chosen models of global artistic works are presented in this course and studied thoroughly.
3
This course introduces students to the theories of colors by prominent artists of different art schools. In addition, this course provides a comprehensive study of the nature of colors, their classification and types, the dynamic aspects of colors, the psychological basis and functions, and the influence of colors on the eyes of the spectators. Furthermore, this course requires that students apply some of these weaving processes to experience the influence of colors and the ways of using these colors in two or three-dimensional objects.
3
    • 11211440 or
    • 11211102
This course is an anatomical study of the human body and the internal and external anatomical functions of bones, muscles, and the body in all of its movements and details in consistency and movement; in addition to determining these anatomical and perspective points, considering the different angles of body movements, on the one hand, and physiological changes on the other. Students are introduced to writing exercises and shading to highlight the body in order to enable them to draw the body properly in different modes and movements, even if the design is from their imagination
3
This course is designed to introduce students to the concept of sculpture, its nature, content, and types. In addition, this course aims to provide students with the skills necessary to deal with the mass material of three dimensions through modeling out engineering objects and shapes of three dimensions. It also aims at providing students with sculpture-related skills by carrying out some projects modeled out of and derived from objects of ancient civilizations, such as the Ancient Egyptians and Assyrians.
3
This course is designed to provide a historical and analytical study of Islamic art as an innovative art, with a focus on the link between the art product and philosophy from religion and culture, the most important Islamic painting schools, the leading Muslim figures in this field, with the focus on Al-Wasiti and Behzad. Islamic architecture will discussed in terms of its elements, types, and different styles, with a focus on applied Islamic arts and the extent of Islamic art?s impact on modern Western art.
2
    • 11216210 or
    • 11201107 or
    • 11221103 or
    • 11226413 or
    • 11211446 or
    • 11206211
The course is designed to introduce students to the principles and methods of scientific research in an academic and scientific style, where they can find the research problem, and then use research methods for finding the necessary information, practicing academic and creative writing methods, quoting, and redrafting, so that they respect the others? thoughts and copyrights and thus become self-creative and distinguished individuals. In addition, the course aims to provide students with the necessary tools and skills for scientific research, based on building a sound approach leading to cumulative and reliable information, to assist them in enriching their cognitive and skills expertise. Part of the course is allocated to assigning every student research in one of the aspects of arts of interest, using the procedures in documentation and scientific research.
3
    • 11211320
In this course, students will have the opportunity to learn about co-relief sculpture by carrying out a project on masks modeled or taken from the history of art, and emulating it. After making a negative mold of the work, students will pour into simple molds and copy the original work from gypsum.
3
This course requires that students carry out a series of activities given to them as homework assignments in order to make sure that students have a good grasp of art concepts they had taken previously.
3
    • 11211102 or
    • 11211440
This course aims to build upon the student's knowledge gained in Academic Drawing (1), with a focus on distributing elements within space, the overall framework, and dealing with intersections through conducting linear studies where lighting and texture values are achieved. Various subjects and techniques will be addressed, including charcoal, Chinese ink, watercolors, in addition to pencil on surfaces with different textures and diverse colors.
3
    • 11211440 or
    • 11211102
These courses are designed to sharpen students? accuracy of observation, planning and studying elements, both living and non-living, and the detection of aesthetic values in these elements. In addition, these courses are concerned with the multiple uses of these instruments, tools, and raw materials pertinent to painting and the acquisition of technical performance skills relevant to oil colors, raw materials, watercolors and wax colors used in painting. These courses require that students make several visits to local plastic art exhibitions. At the end of each academic semester, an exhibition is held in the department for productions of artwork and photography. These courses are offered every semester.
3
    • 11211106 or
    • 11211445
Continuing with Painting 1, this course focuses on the various textures of raw materials, presenting them in coexistence with elements of different formations and floors. In addition, there is a focus on the types of leftover elements and their appropriate color paintings distinctively commensurate with the nature of the topic and the elements to be expressed through the configurations of silent nature and discussing the different methods of coloring.
3
This course covers a study of prehistoric arts and the arts of the eastern and western ancient world (starting with the arts of Mesopotamia, the Pharaonic, the Canaanite, Greek and Roman art, and the arts of other ancient civilizations),then studying the arts of the Middle Ages, the arts of the Renaissance, the Baroque and Rococo eras,the Romanticism and Realism and the beginnings of the Modern Arts. During this course, the most famous works of art in the field of painting, sculpture and architecture will be studied. The most important artistic features, artists, and pioneers of each era will be studied.
3
    • 11211122
This course focuses on the concept of education, education through art, and the reasons of the importance of teaching art education in schools, in a way that enhances the individual and society's conviction of the role of art in the bringing up of generations. The course focuses on the phases of development of children's drawings and their characteristics, emphasizing on the role of the teacher in the process of teaching education. The course also deals with the concept of the study plan and its types, the specifications of a successful class based on the specific and general technical objectives, the importance of teaching media in enriching the content, and how to evaluate the multiple skills of students.
3
This course focuses on the study of aesthetics and the philosophies, trends, and principles used for the appreciation of beauty. In addition, it looks at the relation of aesthetics with other related objects. Furthermore, this course investigates the multi-faceted concepts of aesthetics, its forms and content, beauty and ugliness.
2
This course underscores the importance of studying folklore and how this genre inspires popular artists. This course also looks at the processes of glass- blowing, pottery-making, textile industry, etc. With a focus on hosting experts and craftsmen in various fields of folk arts.
3
A review of the types of Arabic calligraphy, their characteristics, features, and the plastic and aesthetic values that the Arabic letter carries. In it, the teacher focuses on the Naskh and Ruq?ah scripts through a practical, analytical explanation of the letter?s shape and proportion, using authentic inks and materials in planning, so that the trainee gains the sound skill to reach the student?s ability to innovate.
3
This course aims at introducing students to the concept of ceramics, the stages of its production and formation, the characteristics of clay which can be modeled into various shapes and forms, and the stages necessary for its preparation. In addition, this course is designed to introduce students to the various ways of clay formation and the problems faced by the potter during his making of pottery. Furthermore, it introduces students to the types of glass-coating and the methods of glazing.
3
This course provides students with the practical skills necessary for the process of manual formation/making of ceramics through compression and rope formation techniques or slide formation techniques. In addition, this course aims at training students how to firmly stick parts and articles in order to accomplish the required design, with a great emphasis on the characteristics and quality of clay. It also gives students the opportunity to learn how to deal with problems and acquire the means and ways with which they can preserve their work and follow up with it on a continual basis. All of this will be accomplished by students carrying out created designs which accomplish all these concepts.
3
    • 11221102
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the concept of ornamented decorative sculpture through the completion of creative designs in this particular form or style. In addition, this course aims at introducing students to the mechanics and hands-on techniques for problems-solving which might confront students in their acquisition of knowledge about ceramic works.
3
    • 11221103
In continuation with Ceramics 2, this course is designed to help students acquire the necessary formation skills on the electrical wheel and the stages by which this work is usually carried out, and the ability to implement creative designs by employing this method. In addition, this course is likely to reinforce students? understanding of these concepts and the skills which have been taught in previous courses, such as visible and deep drilling.
3
    • 11221204
In continuation with the acquired skills in Ceramics 1, 2, and 3, this is a practical course. It aims at introducing students to the concept of glass coating, its structures, installation, and components. It also aims at teaching students about the chemistry of ceramics in the installation of glass coating and application of different experiments using colored oxide color in order to verify theoretical information. In addition, it provides students with skills of glass-making or glazing, such as sprinkling and diving or immersing, etc. Finally, this course aims at introducing students to the ways of dealing with the colors of under glaze.
3
This course aims at introducing students to the role of Islamic civilization in the development and evolution of the art of ceramics on account of its being an old and applied art. This course profiles the pioneering works of the Muslim artist through his creative innovation of the concept of ceramics with shiny metal. It also provides a display of models and samples illustrating the Islamic role in promoting and developing this type of art.
3
This course is a historical study of the industry of pottery starting from the Canaanite age until modern times, looking at the civilizations inhabiting this region. In addition, this course focuses on studying the most pervasive and prominent components, designs, and decorations of these civilizations in this region. Furthermore, this course concentrates on producing research on the profession or craft of pottery-making and the people overseeing it, on account of its being an art form and a traditional and popular craft.
3
    • 11221205
In continuation with the acquired skills in Ceramics (1, 2, 3, 4), this course aims at enabling students to prepare clay for ceramics, exposing students to the different stages which this type of pottery clay undergoes and how it can be molded and reformed. This course gives students the opportunity not only to conduct some experiments and field studies and bring samples of sand, but also to carry out creative ceramic projects relying on the experience which the student has acquired from previous courses.
3
This course is concerned with introducing students to the benefits and merits of using moulds in ceramics on the basis that it saves a great deal of time and effort, and it allows the artist to obtain several accurate and precise copies of the same mould with its distinct properties. This can be done through the implementation of the sample of clay pottery and pouring the gypsum into the mould in order to obtain the negative copy, and then preparing the clay solution and pouring it into a mould to obtain the original copy or model.
3
This course is a practical course. It is designed to provide students the opportunity to do decorative works as final projects with a great deal of sophistication and advanced-level, drawing on the experiences which the students have gone through in this field. In this course, students will have an opportunity to be prepared for the work of the graduation project. Furthermore, this course is designed to ascertain students? ability and experience to be utilized properly and effectively.
2
    • 11211475 or
    • 11211323
This course enables students to deal with the market in the art of ceramics with the tools to marketing works of art. Students are placed in an institution, specialized art workshops, or in primary and elementary schools, where they will share their skills and benefit from dealing with the community and market; they will also contribute to the implementation of practical projects and proposals. Students may take this course after they have successfully finished 90 credit hours. The number of training hours must not be less than 200 and must be taken during the summer semester without any other courses. In the case of the regular semester, students should sign up for no less than 11 hours, distributed over 2 or 3 days
3
This course aims at introducing students to the history of decoration and its origins throughout the different civilizations, and to the concept of the decorative unit and its ability to find innovative technical formations. This course also seeks to give students the skills to enable them to transfer the decorative units to pottery works and to be able to do carving works transparently and explicitly, taking into account the specificity of the raw material and its external decorative suitability. In addition, this course offers students the opportunity to utilize computer technology in the creation and formation of innovatively decorative designs.
1
    • 11221205
This course is designed to prepare and equip the student for their final graduation project. It involves selecting the research topic and its philosophy, as well as preparing the planning studies that enable them to start the graduation project directly at the beginning of the next semester. In this course, the student will reach a final stage in their studies in terms of formation, scope, and the techniques they wish to employ in executing their project.
3
This course aims at introducing students to the nature of ceramic wall sculpture by making students prepare wall designs and wall decorative carving projects. The students will make use of the technicalities, skills and concepts acquired in previous courses. Students will also learn how to prepare glass- coating and do glazing works.
3
    • 11221411
This course aims to employ all that students have acquired in the previous ceramics and sculpture courses in designing and implementing a graduation project on which students are judged for having the needed skills to graduate.

Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 12 credit hours

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours Prerequests
3
Explores the world of entrepreneurship and creativity by examining the processes and techniques used to develop ideas and turn them into successful projects. The course includes understanding the foundations of entrepreneurship and the stages of emerging business development, in addition to analyzing the factors that affect the success of entrepreneurial projects and enhancing creativity in various fields.
3
Providing students with the basic principles in the second dimension and developing an understanding of the nature of design, its components, mechanisms, and impact through the presentation of fundamental design principles such as color, measurement, rhythm, and line.
3
This course is a practical course. It is designed to provide a historical study of mosaic in various ages and times and the techniques of its manufacturing. It also aims at introducing and training students in the use of mosaic tools and raw materials. In this course, students will be asked to carry out some projects in mosaic by using color paper. In addition, students will learn the techniques of using stones, marbles, and other works in mosaic production
3
    • 11211440 or
    • 11211102
This course is theory-based. It deals with art designs, the teaching of design, its elements, and its derived elements, building of designs and the evaluation of works of arts. In addition, there will be practical projects accompany theoretical studies concerning the elements of art design
3
    • 11211109
This course introduces students to the theories of colors by prominent artists of different art schools. In addition, this course provides a comprehensive study of the nature of colors, their classification and types, the dynamic aspects of colors, the psychological basis and functions, and the influence of colors on the eyes of the spectators. Furthermore, this course requires that students apply some of these weaving processes to experience the influence of colors and the ways of using these colors in two or three-dimensional objects.
3
    • 11211445 or
    • 11211106
This course aims to teach the techniques of water drawing. Students will identify the different means of expression and use a variety of painting tools, such as the paintbrush and its techniques, the blotting paper on surfaces that go along with the nature of the war materials, and will take into account the appropriate care for the specialty and transparency of water colors. The course addresses different topics of the silent nature and the natural landscapes.
3
This course is theory-based. First, it investigates the major factors of any artistic work by tracing the history of plastic arts in the Arab world in general, and in Palestine in particular before 1948. Second, it examines also the art movement during the rise of the Palestinian revolution after 1967, which witnessed the initial establishment of a Palestinian plastic movement in the occupied territory. Third, this course identifies prominent artists of the occupied lands and provides an analysis of their artistic accomplishments, the local art exhibition and galleries. Finally, it provides a new perspective of the current and future direction for the Palestinian plastic movement.
3
    • 11211441 or
    • 11211103
This course is a continuation of the courses Academic Drawing 1 and 2, and it builds on what was taught in these previous courses. This course focuses on: the structural format of any object, the part-whole and whole-part relation in the formation process, and the connection between the object being formed and the philosophy behind the idea which is responsible for its formation. This must be accomplished analytically for one single subject. Furthermore, this course aims at introducing students to the following drawing techniques: becoming familiar with the technique of using collages for the service of any work of art; employing previously used techniques along with the use of coal and pastel; -exploring new techniques suitable for the work of art at hand; formulating the visible and visual reality and putting it in new art forms/ shapes such as surrealism and engineering; and getting acquainted with the statue of the human body in various postures. And dealing with cuts by doing line studies in which the values of lighting and contacts are verified. Various subjects and methods that the student will deal with, such as charcoal pencil, Chinese ink, and watercolor, in addition to the pencil on surfaces of different textures and colors.
3
    • 11211442 or
    • 11211204
This course is designed to introduce students to different visions of new plastic models, and is geared for students to point out the part-whole relationship at the same time to preserve the unity of the work of art and the craftiness of constructive design. In addition, this course trains students to ascertain harmony in constructing and assembling the object in terms of shape and content for the sake of preserving its artistic and comprehensive quality. Furthermore, this course underscores the student?s personal vision, primarily his philosophical vision concerning the work of art at hand. Finally, this course trains students to carry out any work of art by relying on different, familiar, and discovered raw materials.
3
This course deals with the history and principles of art criticism, a subject which is relied upon for the evaluation and discovery of the aesthetic elements in various works of art. This is accomplished by studying and analyzing an artist?s personal views, perspectives, principles and aesthetics and the means to apply them socially.
3
Creative thinking is the first step towards creation, and in order for one to create something they need to learn how to generate ideas. This course aims at providing students with the skills necessary to motivate their minds to produce creative ideas, as creativity in all its forms is a skill that can be learned, acquired, and practiced. That is done by recognizing the things that hold back creative thinking to double the students? ability to produce creative ideas and be able to recognize the direct and indirect motivations of creative thinking. It also deals with the training and recognition of a group of techniques of creative thinking on an individual and collective level to generate more ideas that meet the needs of students in all departments, including the development of the their mental and visual tools on a theoretical and practical level.
3
This is a theory-oriented course. It aims at introducing students to the study of the mechanics and techniques involved in the production of an artwork whose structure and formation is blended with raw materials used in modern artworks, such as wood, clothes, cardboards and containers of carton, news papers, old magazines, metal boards, wires, and clay threads.
3
This course deals with modern artistic, social and philosophical issues and how to address these issues within the techniques of modern art. In addition, students study how creative artists handle modern issues and how their works.
3
    • 11211476 or
    • 11211328
This course is a continuation of other courses on aesthetics and thus it builds upon the foundation of other previous courses in this area. It is designed to tackle more specialized subjects such as the theory of art criticism and aesthetics, the contemporary aesthetic philosophy such as intuitiveness, existentialism, and symbolism, in addition other important aesthetic theories such as the reactionary, psychological, and formation theories. There is also a study of comparative aesthetics.
3
This course develops the students? ability to draw still life, architectural spaces and structures by commercial hand and various techniques, which helps him to develop his awareness and abilities to express ideas in their designs. This is based on the elements and foundations of the artwork.
3
    • 11211116 or
    • 11211470
Studying of Western arts from the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century ?1945 AD? including the content of the study of the causes of the emergence of modern art and a presentation of the most important schools and artistic movements in this era and the most important pioneers and artists and the study of their methods by presenting and studying of their works from the beginnings of the emergence of Impressionism to the beginnings of the emergence of schools Postmodernism
3
    • 11211217 or
    • 11211471
((This course aims to teach the student the philosophies of postmodern schools from the post-World War II period until today by presenting the experiences of international and local artists and discussing their work, experiences, artistic research and methods of presentation))
3
    • 11211102 or
    • 11211440
This course is concerned with the practical applications of certain works of arts in order to ascertain some of the following matters: the elements of plastic formation, the type of relationship such as harmony or disharmony among certain elements, the clarity of vision and foresight, the issue of formation, planning, movement or motion, the effect of dormant elements in the target objects, and the relationship among all elements concerned with the work of art. In addition, this course introduces student to the concept of compositional formation/ construction of any work of art and its types. It also provides a milestone in paving the way to any work of art.
3
This course provides an overview of the history of engraving and printing, introducing the fundamentals and principles of engraving, its materials, and the stages of development in this art. It includes a study of various printing techniques with practical applications using materials like linoleum and others, both manually and mechanically. Techniques covered include screen printing and offset printing, along with a series of practical, sculptural, and field exercises.
3
This course provides an overview of the history of calligraphy and ornamentation, as well as the development of the science of calligraphy and the key figures in the field. It also focuses on understanding the rules and foundations of calligraphy and ornamentation, along with the tools used in their execution. Students engage in practical applications related to Arabic scripts and Islamic ornamentation, exploring ways to integrate these elements into design.
3
    • 11211435
In continuation with what students studied in Sculpture 1 and 2, students will be asked to do some designs of the human body through performing complete sculptural projects of human body parts, such as the head and body motion, going through the various steps necessary for sculptural works. It also provides students with the opportunity to acquire the skills necessary for making and modeling out partitions of sculptural molds from gypsum.
3
This course aims to introduce students to the types of simple and partitioned moulds and the distinctive characteristics of each one of the ways of its production, through the execution and accomplishment of sculptural works and through the pouring into moulds by using different raw materials such as gabsine, paint, and cement - in addition to knowing the partition of a mould for a specific raw material and its characteristics.
3
    • 11221351
This course enables students to deal with masses and voids through the implementation of sculptural designs of their own that take into account abstract patterns providing basic characteristics of complete sculptural design; and employing the element of texture in giving the design its special art force.
3
This course aims to introduce students to the concept of silk screen printing and the materials used in preparing the silk screen. Students will go through stages of printing execution, starting with designing in black on transparent paper, stretching the silk on the frame, sensitizing the film, and finally applying the design to ceramic tiles with very high precision.

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