College of the Redwoods
SELECTED TOPICS CURRICULUM PROPOSAL
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Division: Arts, Languages, and Social Sciences
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Course ID and Number: ART 99
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Course Title: Concepts in Printmaking
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Discipline(s): (Select from CCC System Office Minimum Qualification for Faculty [copy following web
address and paste into web browser http://www.cccco.edu/divisions/esed/aa_ir/psmq/min_qual/min_quals%20_revApr406.pdf]
Course may fit more than one discipline; identify all that apply): Art
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New
Change to existing course
(Indicate changes on "Summary of Curriculum Changes" form)
Replacing existing course
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(Course to be inactivated)
Provide explanation and justification for addition/change/deletion:
Printmaking serves as a stimulating intersection between all art media, acting to
extend their creative possibilities. This course introduces students to the concepts
and methodology of printmaking from contemporary to traditional processes.
Particular attention will be paid to weaving digital technology into traditional
printmaking practice.
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List any special materials, equipment, tools, etc. that students must purchase:
Students will be responsible for paper and a printmaking tool kit.
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This course will have an instructional materials fee. No
Fee: $20
Submitted by:
Lindsay Coats
Yes
Tel. Ext. 707 268 0568 Date: 3/21/08
Division Chair/Director: Justine Shaw
Review Date: 3/28/08
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE USE ONLY
Approved by Curriculum Committee: No
Board of Trustees Approval Date: 5/6/08
Yes
Date: 3/28/08
Selected Topics Courses Form (rev. 9.5.06)
Revised and approved: February 11, 2005/Academic Senate: March 2, 2005
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SUMMARY OF CURRICULUM CHANGES
FOR AN EXISTING COURSE
FEATURES
Catalog Description
(Please include text of
old catalog description.)
Grading Standard
NEW
OLD
Select
Select
Total Units
Lecture Units
Lab Units
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Recommended
Preparation
Maximum Class Size
Repeatability—
Maximum Enrollments
Other
If any of the listed features have been modified in the new proposal, indicate the "old" (current) information and
proposed changes.
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College of the Redwoods
SELECTED TOPICS COURSE OUTLINE
DATE: 3/21/08
COURSE ID AND NUMBER: Art 99
FORMER ID AND NUMBER (if previously offered):
COURSE TITLE: Concepts in Printmaking
Is this the first time this course has been offered?
The second time?
The third time?
FIRST TERM NEW OR REVISED COURSE MAY BE OFFERED: Winter 2009
TOTAL UNITS: 1
TOTAL HOURS: 36
[Lecture Units: .5
[Lecture Hours: 9
Lab Units: .5]
Lab Hours: 27]
MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE: 30
GRADING STANDARD
Letter Grade Only
CR/NC Only
Is this course repeatable for additional credit units?: No
Grade-CR/NC Option
Yes
how many total enrollments?
5
DESCRIPTION OF SELECTED TOPIC
Clearly state the scope of the course, its level, and what kinds of student goals the course is designed to fulfill.
A study of printmaking as an art form. The course explores variety of traditional and
contemporary techniques and emphasizes printmaking as a fluid extension of other
artistic disciplines. Students will be taught safe studio practice and proper use of
materials and equipment.
PREREQUISITES
No
Yes
Course(s):
Rationale for Prerequisite:
Describe representative skills without which the student would be highly unlikely to succeed .
COREQUISITES
No
Yes
Rationale for Corequisite:
Course(s):
RECOMMENDED PREPARATION
No
Yes
Course(s): Art 17or Art 10 or Art 2
Rationale for Recommended Preparation:
Prior experience in drawing will enhance the learning outcomes of the students.
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
What should the student be able to do as a result of taking this course? State some of the objectives in terms of
specific, measurable student accomplishments.
1. Produce a portfolio of prints using the processes of transferring, registration, working
reductively, editioning, proofing, multiple plate printing, and digital media techniques.
2. Safely use and maintain studio equipment, space, and resources.
3. Competently use computer software and hardware (including Photoshop and digital
scanners) and processes to transfer imagery onto traditional printmaking substrates
such as screens, blocks or plates.
4. Verbally describe how these concepts operate within a variety of historical,
contemporary, and multicultural contexts.
REPRESENTATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES
What will students be doing (e.g., listening to lectures, participating in discussions and/or group activities, attending
a field trip)? Relate the activities directly to the Course Learning Outcomes.
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Completing in-class laboratory assignments.
Completing homework assignments.
Preparing portfolios of artworks.
Reading assigned essays.
Participating in lecture/discussion activities.
Participating in demonstration activities.
Participating in regularly scheduled group critiques.
Participating in one-on-one discussions and critiques.
Participating in fieldtrips to museums and galleries.
ASSESSMENT TASKS
How will students show evidence of achieving the Course Learning Outcomes? Indicate which assessments (if any)
are required for all sections.
Representative assessment tasks:
1. Regularly scheduled homework assignments.
2. Regularly scheduled portfolio evaluations of all completed assignments to assess the
technical skill development and conceptual comprehension of the skills, themes, and
concepts presented in class.
3. Regularly scheduled group and individual critiques, discussions, and interactive
demonstrations to assess students' verbal communication and conceptual
comprehension of the skills, themes and concepts presented in class.
4. Written tests and quizzes on the concepts covered in class.
Required assessments for all sections – to include but not limited to:
COURSE CONTENT
To justify repeatability, describe course content and list texts for two representative selected topics, demonstrating
clearly that each will provide significantly different content.
Representative Topic #1
Course Title: Digital Printmaking
Themes: What themes, if any, are threaded throughout the learning experiences in this course?
1. Research and experimentation with themes unique to digital printmaking (including,
narrative content, mass distribution and editioning.)
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2. Research and experimentation with media (i.e., digital cameras, Photoshop, scanners,
printers, photo sensitive transferring materials, water and oil based inks, papers, and
unconventional materials).
3. Research and experimentation with process (i.e., how each particular media is
manipulated and deployed through monotype, monoprint, collagraph and relief
printmaking).
4. Research and integration of personal experience and personal iconography into
image making.
5. Research and integration of political, cultural, or sociological content into imaging
making.
6. Research and integration of visual art's aesthetic principles into image making (i.e.,
line, proportion, composition, space, value, color, texture, etc.)
Concepts: What concepts do students need to understand to demonstrate course outcomes?
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Photoshop techniques that are relevant to digital printmaking.
Digital chine colle.
Print matrixes and photo sensitive techniques.
Digital Relief Printmaking.
Digital Silkscreen.
Digital monoprint.
Photolithography.
Inkjet and laser printers.
Issues: What primary issues or problems, if any, must students understand to achieve course outcomes (including
such issues as gender, diversity, multi-culturalism, and class)?
1. The political and social tensions generated by an artist's use of multiple images as a
tool for mass dissemination of social, political, and environmental issues.
2. The democratization of image ownership because of the availability of multiple images
in printmaking techniques, as opposed to a one-of-a-kind image in other art media.
3. The aesthetic and functional similarities and differences between Western (i.e.,
European and North American) and non-Western (i.e., Asian, Latin American, African,
and Native American) digital printmaking forms.
4. The intervention of feminist, queer, erotic, and multicultural theories within regional,
national, and global digital printmaking art practices.
5. The crucial role of digital technologies within regional, national, and global
printmaking art practices.
Skills: What skills must students master to demonstrate course outcomes?
1. Create digital and traditional/digital prints.
2. Follow directions, listen carefully during lectures, critiques and demonstrations, and
thoughtfully respond to questions posed during lectures, critiques and demonstrations.
3. Prepare a portfolio of prints for critiques and for grading.
Examples of Appropriate Texts or Other Readings: Title, Author, and Date are required.
Author Whale,
George Title Digital Printmaking Date 2003
Author Schminke,
Karin Title Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with
Traditional Art Materials Date 2004
Author Henning,
Ronni Title Water-Based Screenprinting Today: From Hands-On Techniques to
Digital Technology Date 2006
Author Ross,
John Title The Complete Printmaker Date 1990
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Representative Topic #2
Course Title: The Monotype Series
Themes: What themes, if any, are threaded throughout the learning experiences in this course?
1. Research and experimentation with themes unique to monotype (including expressive
emotional tenor, narrative content, mass distribution and editioning.)
2. Research and experimentation with media (i.e., oil and water based inks and paint,
watercolor, water-soluble crayons, pastels, and pencils, papers, mediums, solvents and
unconventional materials).
3. Research and experimentation with process (i.e., how each particular media is
manipulated and deployed through chine colle, embossing, collagraphy, stenciling).
4. Research and integration of personal experience and personal iconography into
image making.
5. Research and integration of political, cultural, or sociological content into imaging
making.
6. Research and integration of visual art's aesthetic principles into image making (i.e.,
line, proportion, composition, space, value, color, texture, etc.).
Concepts: What concepts do students need to understand to demonstrate course outcomes?
1. Reductive and additive approaches to monotype.
2. Image transfer to plates.
3. Multiple pass and plate monoprints.
4. Monoprint using screenprinting and relief printmaking.
5. Hand printing.
6. Proofing.
7. Press and ghost transfers.
8. Chine colle, resists, hand coloring, collography and embossing.
9. Masking and stenciling.
10. Papermaking.
11. Offset printing.
Issues: What primary issues or problems, if any, must students understand to achieve course outcomes (including
such issues as gender, diversity, multi-culturalism, and class)?
1. The political and social tensions generated by an artist's use of multiple images as a
tool for mass dissemination of social, political, and environmental issues.
2. The democratization of image ownership because of the availability of multiple images
in printmaking techniques, as opposed to a one-of-a-kind image in other art media.
3. The aesthetic and functional similarities and differences between Western (i.e.,
European and North American) and non-Western (i.e., Asian, Latin American, African,
and Native American) Monotype printmaking forms.
4. The intervention of feminist, queer, erotic, and multicultural theories within regional,
national, and global Monotype printmaking art practices.
Skills: What skills must students master to demonstrate course outcomes?
1. Create monoprints.
2. Follow directions, listen carefully during lectures, critiques and demonstrations, and
thoughtfully respond to questions posed during lectures, critiques and demonstrations.
3. Prepare a portfolio of prints for critiques and for grading.
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Revised and approved: February 11, 2005/Academic Senate: March 2, 2005
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Examples of Appropriate Texts or Other Readings: Title, Author, and Date are required.
Author Ayres,
Julia Title Monotype: Mediums and Methods for Painterly Printmaking Date 2001
Author Newell,
Jackie Title Monoprinting Date 2008
Author Petterson, Melvyn Title
Century Date 2001
Author Wisneski,
The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth
Kurt Title Monotype/Monoprint: History and Techniques Date 1995
Other Appropriate Readings:
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FOR VPAA USE ONLY
PROGRAM AND COURSE NUMBER ART-99
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
1. Department: ARTS Arts
2. Subject: ART
16. CoRequisite Course: None
Course No: 99
17. CoRequisite Noncourse: ART-17 or 10 or 2
3. Credit Type: D Credit Degree Applicable
18. Maximum Class Size: 30
4. Min/Maximum Units: 1.0 to
19. Repeat/Retake: R4 May enroll 5 times for credit
variable units
5. Course Level: E Not Occupational
20. Count Retakes for Credit:
yes
no
6. Academic Level: UG Undergraduate
21. Only Pass/No Pass:
yes
no
7. Grade Scheme: UG Undergraduate
22. Allow Pass/No Pass:
yes
no
8. Short Title: Concepts in Printmaking
23. VATEA Funded Course:
yes
no
9. Long Title: Concepts in Printmaking
24. Accounting Method: W Weekly Census
10. National ID (CIP): 50.0101
25. Disability Status: N Not a Special Class
11. Local ID (TOPS): 100100
26. Billing Method: T-Term
12. Course Types:
 Level One Basic Skills: NBS Not Basic Skills
27. Billing Period: R-Reporting Term
28. Billing Credits: 1.0
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Level Two Work Experience:
NWE Not Coop Work Experience
29. Purpose: A Liberal Arts Sciences
Level Three:
30. Articulation No. (CAN):
Placeholder for GE OR
DOES NOT APPLY
31. Articulation Seq. (CAN):
Level Four: If GE : Choose One:
32. Transfer Status: B Transfers to CSU only
13. Instructional Method: LL Lecture/Lab
33. Equates to another course?
course number.
14. Lec TLUs:
Contact Hours:
Lab TLUs:
Contact Hours:
Lecture/Lab TLUs: 2.25 Contact Hours: 36
15. Prerequisite: None
Particular Comments for Printed Schedule.
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Date approved by Curriculum Committee 3/28/08
Selected Topics Courses Form (rev. 9.5.06)
Revised and approved: February 11, 2005/Academic Senate: March 2, 2005
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