College of the Redwoods
CURRICULUM PROPOSAL
1.
Division: Arts, Languages, and Social Sciences
2.
Course ID and Number: Art 46
3.
Course Title: Techniques in Printmaking
4.
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
5.
Check one of the following:
New Course
If curriculum has been offered under a different discipline and/or name, identify the former course: Art44
Introduction to Printmaking
Change to existing course (course discipline and number are not changing)
Should another course be inactivated? No
Yes
Inactivation date: fall 08
Title of course to be inactivated: Art 44: Introduction to Printmaking
6.
Is course part of a CR Degree/Certificate Program? (If New is selected above, check No) No
Yes
If yes, specify program code(s). (Codes can be found in Outlook/Public Folders/All Public Folders/
Curriculum/Degree and Certificate Programs/choose appropriate catalog year): GC.AS, GC.CA
Required course
Restricted elective
7.
Provide explanation and justification for addition/change/deletion:
The course outline requires updating and the new course is reconfigured to reflect
the beginning level skills which will lead up to more intermediate and or more
indepth techniques in classes yet to be written .
8. List any special materials, equipment, tools, etc. that students must purchase:
hand tools, safety equipment, paper, plates
9. Will this course have an instructional materials fee? No
Fee: $20
Submitted by:
Bob Rhoades
Tel. Ext. 2685
Division Chair: Justine Shaw
Yes
Date: 9/3/07
Review Date: 9/20/07
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE USE ONLY
Approved by Curriculum Committee: No
Board of Trustees Approval Date: 11/6/07
Curriculum Proposal (rev. 3.26.07)
Senate Approved: 09.03.04
Yes
Date: 9/28/07
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SUMMARY OF CURRICULUM CHANGES
FOR AN EXISTING COURSE
FEATURES
Catalog Description
OLD
NEW
(Please include complete
text of old and new catalog
descriptions.)
Grading Standard
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
COURSE OUTLINE
DATE: 9/03/07
COURSE ID AND NUMBER: Art 46
COURSE TITLE: Techniques in Printmaking
FIRST TERM NEW OR REVISED COURSE MAY BE OFFERED: Spring 2008
TOTAL UNITS: 3
TOTAL HOURS: 108
[Lecture Units: 1.5
[Lecture Hours: 27
Lab Units: 1.5]
Lab Hours: 81]
MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE: 26
GRADING STANDARD
Letter Grade Only
CR/NC Only
Is this course repeatable for additional credit units: No
Grade-CR/NC Option
Yes
If yes, how many total enrollments?
Is this course to be offered as part of the Honors Program? No
Yes
If yes, explain how honors sections of the course are different from standard sections.
CATALOG DESCRIPTION
The catalog description should clearly state the scope of the course, its level, and what kinds of student goals the
course is designed to fulfill.
A beginning level course that introduces the concepts, skills and expressive potential of
printmaking in various media and techniques, including monotype, intaglio, serigraphy,
and relief. Students will expand their visual literacy in the use of composition, value, ink
mixing and application.
Special notes or advisories:
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 17 or Art 10
Rationale for Recommended Preparation:
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Art 46A Printmaking assumes the student is conversant in design and drawing techniques
such as rendering, shading, mixing colors from primaries as presented in Art 10 and 17
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. Demonstrate technical skill competency with a variety of printmaking techniques to
include monotype, intaglio, serigraphy, and relief.
2. Describe verbally and visually an understanding of the elements of art and design as
they apply to printmaking (elements such as color, value, composition, texture, balance
etc.).
3. Analyze and apply the challenges and solutions associated with traditional & nontraditional subject matter in printmaking to include landscape, still life, figure, astract and
non-objective imagemaking.
4. Research and integrate how the above concepts operate within historical,
contemporary and multicultural contexts.
5. Develop professional practices including matting & mounting works on paper,
preparing a portfolio and presenting work for grading and critique.
COURSE CONTENT
Themes: What themes, if any, are threaded throughout the learning experiences in this course?
Themes include, but are not limited to:
1. Research and experimentation in process.
2. Research and experimentation in materials.
3. Selection and analysis of subject matter.
4. Awareness and integration of personal and iconographic elements in art making.
5. Organization of ideas, materials, tools, and working methods to proceed with work in a
timely manner.
6. Craftsmanship.
7. Awareness and implementation of environmentally sound and safe practices in
printmaking.
Concepts: What concepts do students need to understand to demonstrate course outcomes?
1. The equipment and materials for printmaking (including presses, screens, blocks
chemistry, inks, papers, hand tools, brushes, etc.).
2. Principles of visual organization (including unity, balance, focal point, and negative
space).
3. Elements of art (including value, line, texture, color, shape).
4. Digital/new media/conceptual imagery.
5. Techniques for manipulating surfaces, resists and inks.
6. Origins of historical techniques such as wood block prints, etchings, and lithos.
7. The emotive characteristics and cultural contexts of all of these concepts.
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. Original prints vs fine art reproduction.
2. The intervention of feminist, queer, and multicultural theories within regional, national,
and global art practices.
3. The intervention of electronic and other technologies within regional, national, and
global art practices.
4. The dialectic between historical/traditional and contemporary/experimental issues in
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current art practices.
5. Awarenss and implimentation of environmentally sound and safe practices in
printmaking.
Skills: What skills must students master to demonstrate course outcomes?
1. Select a subject and edit it properly with sketches and thumbnails to proceed with a
printed image.
2. Mix and apply colors with a variety of media to demonstrate knowledge of harmony and
contrast as well as media characteristics (viscosity, drying time, saturation, transparency,
opacity etc.).
3. Sustain work on a given piece until it reaches compostional and thematic resolution.
4. Work successfully with a variety of tools (brushes, sponges etc) to demonstrate visual
literacy in media and mark making both in illusory, inventive or non-objective
imagemaking.
5. Speak and/or write clearly about works of art (both student and professional) in terms
of technique, content and context.
6. Actively engage in the art community with critique, exhibition of art work, visits to
galleries and museums, and contribute to the cultural fabric of their community.
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.
Students will:
1. Complete in-class laboratory assignments.
2. Complete homework assignments.
3. Prepare portfolios of artworks.
4. Read assigned essays/articles.
5. Participate in lecture/discussion activities.
6. Participate in demonstration activites.
7. Participate in regularly scheduled group critiques.
8. Participate in one-on-one discussions and critiques.
9. Participate in fieldtrips to museums and galleries.
10. Participate in community art activities including exhibitions, lectures, openings, fund
raising events for the arts and through the arts.
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 portfolio evaluations of all completed assignments to assess the
technical skill development and conceptual comprehension of the skills, themes, and
concepts presented in class.
2. Regularly scheduled group and individual critiques/discussions/demonstrations to
assess students' verbal communication and conceptual comprehension of the skills,
themes and concepts presented in class.
3. Quizzes on vocabulary.
4. Assigned readings.
Required assessments for all sections – to include but not limited to:
1. Regularly scheduled portfolio reviews of all in-class laboratory work and homework for
grading.
2. Regularly scheduled critiques and group discussions.
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EXAMPLES OF APPROPRIATE TEXTS OR OTHER READINGS
Author, Title, and Date Fields are required
Author Ross,
Romano
Author
Title
Date
Author
Title
Date
Author
Title
Date
Title
The Complete Printmaker
Date
1991
Other Appropriate Readings:
Course packet of essays and diagrams that cover the concepts, themes, issues and
technical skills presented in the course.
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PROPOSED TRANSFERABILITY:
CSU
UC
If CSU transferability is proposed (courses numbered
1-99), indicate whether general elective credit or specific
course equivalent credit is proposed.
If specific course equivalent credit is proposed, give
course numbers/ titles of at least two comparable lower
division courses from a UC, CSU, or equivalent
institution.
None
General elective credit
Specific course equivalent
1. Art 107, HSU
(Campus)
2. Art 11C, UCLA
(Campus)
CURRENTLY APPROVED GENERAL EDUCATION
CR
CSU
IGETC
CR GE Category:
CSU GE Category:
IGETC Category:
PROPOSED CR GENERAL EDUCATION
Rationale for CR General Education approval (including category designation):
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities
Language and Rationality
Writing
Oral Communications
Analytical Thinking
PROPOSED CSU GENERAL EDUCATION BREADTH (CSU GE)
A. Communications and Critical Thinking
A1 – Oral Communication
A2 – Written Communication
A3 – Critical Thinking
C. Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and Foreign
Language
C1 – Arts (Art, Dance, Music, Theater)
C2 – Humanities (Literature,
Philosophy, Foreign Language)
E. Lifelong Understanding and SelfDevelopment
E1 – Lifelong Understanding
E2 – Self-Development
B. Science and Math
B1 – Physical Science
B2 – Life Science
B3 – Laboratory Activity
B4 – Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning
D. Social, Political, and Economic Institutions
D0 – Sociology and Criminology
D1 – Anthropology and Archeology
D2 – Economics
D3 – Ethnic Studies
D5 – Geography
D6 – History
D7 – Interdisciplinary Social or Behavioral
Science
D8 – Political Science, Government and Legal Institutions
D9 – Psychology
Rationale for inclusion in this General Education category: Same as above
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Proposed Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC)
1A – English Composition
1B – Critical Thinking-English Composition
1C – Oral Communication (CSU requirement only)
2A – Math
3A – Arts
3B – Humanities
4A – Anthropology and Archaeology
4B – Economics
4E – Geography
4F – History
4G – Interdisciplinary, Social & Behavioral Sciences
4H – Political Science, Government & Legal Institutions
4I – Psychology
4J – Sociology & Criminology
5A – Physical Science
5B – Biological Science
6A – Languages Other Than English
Rationale for inclusion in this General Education category:
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PROGRAM AND COURSE NUMBER
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
1. Department: Choose One:
16. CoRequisite Course:
2. Subject:
17. Recommended Prep:
Course No:
3. Credit Type: Choose One:
4. Min/Maximum Units:
18. Maximum Class Size:
to
variable units
19. Repeat/Retake: Choose One:
5. Course Level: Choose One:
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:
23. VATEA Funded Course:
yes
no
9. Long Title:
24. Accounting Method: Choose One:
10. National ID
11. Local ID
25. Disability Status: Choose One:
(CIP):
26. Billing Method: T-Term
(TOPS):
12. Course Types:
 Level One Basic Skills: Choose One:
27. Billing Period: R-Reporting Term
28. Billing Credits:

Level Two Work Experience: Choose One:

Level Three:
29. Purpose: Choose One:
Placeholder for GE OR
30. Articulation No.
(CAN):
Choose One:
31. Articulation Seq.

(CAN):
Level Four: If GE : Choose One:
32. Transfer Status: A Transfers to both UC/CSU
13. Instructional Method: Choose One:
33. Equates to another course? Art 11C@UCLA (course
14. Lec TLUs: 2.25 Contact Hours:
Lab TLUs: 4.5 Contact Hours:
Lecture/Lab TLUs: 6.75 Contact Hours: 6
number).
34. The addition of this course will inactive Art 44 (course
number). Inactive at end of F 07 term.
15. Prerequisite:
Particular Comments for Printed Catalog.
.
Curriculum Approval Date:
Curriculum Proposal (rev. 3.26.07)
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