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AVANOS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS / SER104 - CERAMICS, GLASS AND TILE

Code: SER104 Course Title: CLAY WHEEL FORMING Theoretical+Practice: 2+1 ECTS: 3
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course Short Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department CERAMICS, GLASS AND TILE
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer BAHADIR CEM ERDEM (bahadirerdem@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To learn the principle of shaping with pottery wheel.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 A ceramic form can design accordance with the principles potter wheel. PO-7 Recognize the techniques which are shaping ceramics and design; practice three-dimensioned workshops; achieve new things by following the reforms in their fields and combining the traditional and contemporary things in terms of design and practice; carry out porcelainization and firing processes; use the technological devices, electrical appliances and machines related to their branch; understand the problems and their solutions.
PO-17 Design form in accordance with the principles of the potter's wheel.
Term Paper
Practice Exam
LO-2 A ceramic form can shape accordance with the principles potter wheel. PO-7 Recognize the techniques which are shaping ceramics and design; practice three-dimensioned workshops; achieve new things by following the reforms in their fields and combining the traditional and contemporary things in terms of design and practice; carry out porcelainization and firing processes; use the technological devices, electrical appliances and machines related to their branch; understand the problems and their solutions.
PO-17 Design form in accordance with the principles of the potter's wheel.
PO-18 The scaling ability, gaining desired extent does the three-dimensional applications.
Term Paper
Practice Exam
LO-3 Can obtain ability to dimensioning. PO-7 Recognize the techniques which are shaping ceramics and design; practice three-dimensioned workshops; achieve new things by following the reforms in their fields and combining the traditional and contemporary things in terms of design and practice; carry out porcelainization and firing processes; use the technological devices, electrical appliances and machines related to their branch; understand the problems and their solutions.
PO-17 Design form in accordance with the principles of the potter's wheel.
PO-18 The scaling ability, gaining desired extent does the three-dimensional applications.
Term Paper
Practice Exam
LO-4 Can make the desired measurement. PO-7 Recognize the techniques which are shaping ceramics and design; practice three-dimensioned workshops; achieve new things by following the reforms in their fields and combining the traditional and contemporary things in terms of design and practice; carry out porcelainization and firing processes; use the technological devices, electrical appliances and machines related to their branch; understand the problems and their solutions.
PO-17 Design form in accordance with the principles of the potter's wheel.
PO-18 The scaling ability, gaining desired extent does the three-dimensional applications.
Term Paper
Practice Exam
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
To make the artistic practices of three-dimensional designs with pottery wheel, tosearch for the aesthetic evaluation of surface analysis. Design and shape of different ceramic forms with pottery wheel. Remove air inside clay, bringing the center, upgrading, refining, correction, making the bottom, making the standard sized cylinder. Making cylindrical forms, bowls, plates, handles, sphere vase. Such as methods of making slip, scraping, tracking, open-work decoration. Create a texture, glazing applications.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Explain a wheel different kinds of clays, kneaded clay and remove air inside clay Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice
2 Obtaining clay to bring the center on the wheel, shaping cylindrical form Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice
3 Certain amounts of the same size and thickness of clay cylinder shaping at wheel Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice
4 Shaping a cylinder vase nd working form, checking for the project Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice, project work
5 Application to vertical form, making the bottom-correction work Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice
6 Working hemispherical and bowl, checking for the project Statement, question and answer, demonstration, practice, project work
7 The opening of the cylinder form, conical form Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice
8 mid-term exam
9 Making medium-sized horizontal shape Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice
10 Making the techniques of foot of glaze Tell,, question and answer, demonstration, practice
11 Different kinds of decoration techniques (slip, scraping, tracking, open-work, texture, colourful glaze and etc.) Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice
12 Making pot, bowl, cup, checking for the project work Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice, project work
13 Making artistic product, checking for the project work Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice, project work
14 filling kiln and biscuit firing (first firing) Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice
15 Glazing, glaze firing (second firing) Tell, question and answer, demonstration, practice
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Clark, Kenneth. (1998). The Potter's Manuel. Little, Brown and Company, London.
2 Peterson, Susan., Peterson , Jan. (2009). Seramik Yapıyoruz. Çev. Çizer, Sevim. Karakalem Kitabevi Basım Yayın, İzmir.
Required Course instruments and materials
Wheel, Clay, Modeling Tools, Overall (studio clothes)

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project 14 1 10
final exam 16 1 50

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 0
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 2 4
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 1 4 4
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 3 5 15
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 3 6 18
final exam 1 1 1
Pottery Studios; Tour-Observe-Practice 1 5 5
0
Total work load; 90