- CRF 90 - Coordinated Internship
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Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.
Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 95 - Topics In
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Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students.
May be used also for special honors courses. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 96 - On-Site Training
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Specializes in career orientation and training program without pay in selected businesses and industry, supervised and coordinated by the college.
Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 97 - Cooperative Education
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Supervises in on-the-job training for pay in approved business, industrial and service firms, coordinated by the college's cooperative education office. Is applicable to all occupational- technical curricula at the discretion of the college.
Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 98 - Seminar and Project
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Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student's occupational objectives and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field.
May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 99 - Supervised Study
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Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor.
May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 100 - Survey of Hand Crafts
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Surveys traditional and contemporary American hand crafts.
Lecture 2 hours. Studio instruction 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 101 - Hand Built Pottery
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Introduces fundamental concepts and skills related to hand crafted hand-built pottery.
Lecture 1 hour. Studio instruction 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 102 - Wheel-Thrown Pottery
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Introduces fundamental concepts and skills related to hand crafted wheel-thrown pottery.
Lecture 1 hour. Studio instruction 4 hours Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 105 - Introduction to Pottery
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Introduces art and design related to pottery. Teaches techniques of hand-building, throwing on the potter's wheel, glaze techniques and experimental firing.
Lecture 1 hour. Studio instruction 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 106 - Pottery Glazing and Decorating
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Explores the various techniques of decorating and glazing pottery including the use of texture, colored slips and engobes, wax resist, sgraffito, and glaze experimentation. Prerequisite
CRF 105.
Lecture 1 hour. Studio instruction 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 107 - Hand Crafted Leather Work
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Introduces fundamental concepts and skills related to hand crafted leather work.
Lecture 1 hour. Studio instruction 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 109 - Special Techniques in Pottery
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Explores specialized forms of ceramics such as sawdust firing, Raku, and Egyptian paste. Presents these techniques in a simplified form using limited equipment.
Lecture 1 hour.Studio instruction 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 110 - Introduction to Crafts
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Focuses on an understanding of art and design related to crafts, and of craft media other than the student's craft major. Provides practical training in combining two or more media to produce a good craft item.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 114 - Quilting I
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Surveys a history of the art and technique of quilting while learning various methods of the craft, including piecing, patching, and hand applique.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 115 - Quilting II
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Teaches students how to enrich quilts and sewing projects with gree-form machine quilting and embroidery, fabric manipulation, applique and other techniques. Students will craft several small quilts using techniques covered in class. Prerequisite:
CRF 114.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 116 - Arts and Crafts
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Provides an opportunity to learn and teach in the following forms: clay, cloth, leather, crayon, metals, paper, print, wood, yarn, natural and scrap material. Emphasizes creativity and the use of common inexpensive and readily available materials with special consideration for the needs and limitations of the elderly.
Lecture 1 hour. Studio instruction 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 126 - Ceramic Design
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Studies functional design of ceramics. Gives a foundation in two- and three-dimensional design.
Lecture 1 hour. Studio instruction 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 127 - Ceramic Sculpture
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Explores the materials and processes used in producing various types of ceramic sculpture including portraits, figures, garden sculptures, and ceramic murals. Gives attention to design appropriate to these forms. Prerequisite
CRF 105.
Lecture 1 hour. Studio instruction 4 hours.Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 130 - Glass Blowing I
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Introduces a variety of techniques for manipulating molten "hot glass" into vessel or sculptural forms. Teaches studio safety, equipment operation, techniques of forming molten glass, annealing and cold working techniques.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 4 hours. Total 6 hours per week.
4 credits
- CRF 131 - Glass Blowing II
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Introduces intermediate glass blowing techniques using progressively more complex forms. Emphasis on design and working from prepared drawings. Prerequisite:
CRF 130.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 4 hours. Total 6 hours per week.
4 credits
- CRF 140 - Studio Production Pottery I
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Introduces design and development of studio production prototypes. Teaches techniques of drawing, hand building and throwing on the potter's wheel for production.
Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
2 credits
- CRF 141 - Studio Production Pottery II
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Continues teaching development of production prototypes, design, techniques of drawing, hand building, and throwing on the potter's wheel for production pottery. Prerequisite:
CRF 140.
Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
2 credits
- CRF 142 - Studio Production Pottery III
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Continues design and production prototypes. Introduces studio pottery production methods and continues techniques of drawing, hand building, throwing on the potter's wheel for production pottery. Prerequisite:
CRF 141.
Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
2 credits
- CRF 146 - Studio Production Pottery IV
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Continues production methods, design, production prototypes. Introduces glazing research and firing principles for studio production pottery. Continues techniques of drawing, hand building, throwing on the potter's wheel for production pottery. Prerequisite:
CRF 142.
Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
2 credits
- CRF 147 - Studio Production Pottery V
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Continues teaching glazing research, firing principles, production methods, design, and production prototypes. Introduces sudio production pottery finishing. Continues teaching techniques of drawing, hand building, and throwing on the potter's wheel for production pottery. Prerequisite:
CRF 146.
Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
2 credits
- CRF 148 - Studio Production Pottery VI
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Continues teaching production finishes, glazing research, firing principles, production methods, design, production prototypes, techniques of drawing, hand building, and throwing on the potter's wheel for production pottery. Introduces marketing techniques. Prerequisite:
CRF 147.
Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
2 credits
- CRF 149 - Basic Woodturning
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Introduces the student to woodturning techniques including spindle and faceplate turning, tool sharpening techniques and accessories.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 151 - Glass Fusing and Painting
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Introduces basic glass fusing, slumping, and painting techniques used to make vessels, fused, and painted glass items. Progresses with more difficult assignments that develop skill and concepts. Discusses historical and contemporary glass techniques, designs, and applications and incorporates into student stained glass work.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 152 - Historical Decorative Art
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Provides an overview of historical Early American and European decorative art. Includes techniques such as Rosemaling, Bavarian folk art, Dutch Florals, Swedish Dalmailing, Regency Classicism, Chinoiserie, Delft tiles and Italian faux finishes. Explores adaptations of historical art techniques in today's market.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 153 - Artisan Entrepreneurship
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Provides students with the tools to establish and operate successful crafts related businesses within their communities. Students will write an actual business plan while learning to research markets, access industry resources, and build the foundation for developing effective business strategies. Students who would prefer to seek employment will also gain a better understanding of the industry's infrastructure and operations, allowing them to market their skills more effectively. Prerequisites:
ENG 03 and
ENG 05.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 155 - Wearable Art
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Explores the techniques of applique, piecing, and machine embroidery to create garments. Prerequisite:
CRF 114 and
CRF 115.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 159 - Introduction to Fine Woodworking
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Introduces wood as a medium for realizing their designs. Includes the milling technique, mortise and tenon joinery, surface preparation, and application of oil finishes. Students learn safe use of the radial arm saw, jointer, planer, table saw, band saw, drill press, horzontal boring machine, and router.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 160 - Stained Glass
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Explores the history and techniques of stained glass. Produces stained glass samples using traditional joining techniques.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 165 - Advanced Stained Glass
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Develops ideas introduced in Beginning Stained Glass (CRF 160). Includes additional techniques of plating, painting, gold staining, etching, and slumping. Students will continue to concentrate on the production of architectural stained glass windows. Prerequisite:
CRF 160.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 180 - Foundations of Decorative Painting
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Introduces vocabulary, tools, and surfaces used in decorative painting. Includes color theory, strokework, color washes, landscape painting, and stenciling, glass and fabric painting. Covers copywright issues.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 181 - Decorative Painting and Design I
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Builds on knowledcge learned in the Foundations of Decorative Painting (CRF 180). Continues to develop skills in color and value studies. Introduces realism, sophisticated stroke design, advanced landscapes, floral and still life. Students will create paintings that will introduce value studies, re-emphasis of brush control, three-dimensional form, wet on wet and refined blending techniques. Explores transferring skills learned to murals. Prerequisite:
CRF 180.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 182 - Decorative Painting and Design II
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Continues the exploration of color, including intensity and the relationship between colors and their background and reinforce understanding of values. Introduces more advanced designs with greater detail with Historical decorative art designs of Swedish Dalamaling, Regency Classicism and Dutch Florals. Includes skills including glazing, transparent strokes, and faux woodgraining. Covers design principles including center of interest, complementary toning, lost & found edges, shape, form, perspective, ellipse, cast and resting shadows. Introduces Trompe L'oeill. Prerequisites:
CRF 180 and
CRF 181.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits
- CRF 190 - Coordinated Internship
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Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.
Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 193 - Studies In
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Covers new content not covered in existing courses in the discipline. Allows instuctor to explore content and instructional methods to assess the course's viability as a permanent offering.
Variable hours per week.
1-5 credits
- CRF 195 - Topics In
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Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students.
May be used also for special honors courses. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 196 - On-Site Training
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Specializes in career orientation and training program without pay in selected businesses and industry, supervised and coordinated by the college.
Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 197 - Cooperative Education
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Supervises in on-the-job training for pay in approved business, industrial and service firms, coordinated by the college's cooperative education office. Is applicable to all occupational- technical curricula at the discretion of the college.
Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 198 - Seminar and Project
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Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student's occupational objectives and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field.
May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 199 - Supervised Study
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Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor.
May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 230 - Glass Blowing III
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Introduces advanced techniques of producing blown glass pieces with multiple blown forms. Explores advanced design problems and the development of individual styles. Prerequisite:
CRF 131.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 4 hours. Total 6 hours per week.
4 credits
- CRF 290 - Coordinated Internship
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Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.
Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 295 - Topics In
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Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students.
May be used also for special honors courses. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 296 - On-Site Training
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Specializes in career orientation and training program without pay in selected businesses and industry, supervised and coordinated by the college.
Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 297 - Cooperative Education
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Supervises in on-the-job training for pay in approved business, industrial and service firms, coordinated by the college's cooperative education office. Is applicable to all occupational- technical curricula at the discretion of the college.
Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 298 - Seminar and Project
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Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student's occupational objectives and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field.
May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- CRF 299 - Supervised Study
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Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor.
May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
