Making Is Thinking

Catalog description

This studio course will introduce students to historic, contemporary and emerging materials through making. This course introduces students to wood shop equipment, machine shop equipment, soft goods lab equipment, thermoforming and the laser cutter. Quality, craftsmanship and shop safety are emphasized. The skills developed will provide students with the opportunity to create professional phototypes and visual tools to aid in their presentation/design development. Materials covered include: wood, metal, plastics, polymers, textiles and ceramics. Through a historic survey of product design, manufacturing will be introduced but is not the main focus of this course. Students will engage in a variety of written assignments and hands-on making projects. Student success in this course requires combination learning consisting of visual, aural, read/write and kinesthetic (VARK) learning in an observational setting.