12 courses with the subject WOOD, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
WOOD 211Woodworking Exploration Projects3
90.0 hours 200 level undergraduate course Introduction to basic woodworking skills and processes, including sharpening and setting up hand tools and machinery, theory of solid wood joinery, and construction. In addition to building technical skills, emphasis is on contemporary and historical furniture design issues. Requires completion of 30 credits. This course is not repeatable for credit.
90.0 hours 200 level undergraduate course A continued exploration of furniture and the wooden object as vehicles for personal expression. This freestanding course also serves as a companion to CRWD 211. Materials addressed will be at a beginning level-more experienced students taking the class will explore the topics in more depth. This course is not repeatable for credit.
45.0 hours 200 level undergraduate course An introductory course focused on the development of technical skills. A survey of historical and contemporary precedents exposes the student to the potential wood carving has as a vehicle for artistic expression. The class covers the selection, use, and sharpening of tools, materials and choice of woods, lamination and joinery used for carving, finishing techniques, and letter carving. Students provide their own carving tools. This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
WOOD 225Making and Playing: Improvisational Musical Instruments3
90.0 hours 200 level undergraduate course The course will serve as an introduction to essential principals of sound mechanics and simple musical instrument design and building. Using essential materials and basic woodworking processes, these principals will be investigated in a manner that encourages spontaneity, critical awareness, and collaboration in design, making, and use. The goal is an integration of personal studio practice with the social environment of music and sound. The teaching method will combine lectures covering historical, cultural, and technical information with demonstrations of tool and material use. The importance of temporal and haptic experience in developing an appropriate level of workmanship will be stressed. Much student/faculty contact will be one on one and students will be expected to actively share critical input with each other. Students will learn to make simple musical instruments/sound objects that demonstrate the several basics means of sound production. A series of didactic demonstrations of mechanics, material possibilities, and techniques will be accompanied by presentations of ethnographic instruments, music, and social environments. Three projects of increasing complexity will ask for responses to this introductory material. Students will research and develop concept proposals for each assignment, working initially “solo” and later within the context of “duets” and “ensembles.” Within these varied contexts designs will be tested and implemented refining structure, material use, acoustic response, function relative to the body, and aesthetic content. Requires completion of 30 credits. This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
undefined hours 200 level undergraduate course This course allows for the presentation of one-time, unique studio experiences involving either specialized themes, media, classroom structures, or teaching and learning formats, for the development of projects relevant to contemporary Wood issues. Requires completion of 30 credits. This course may be completed 4 times for credit.
90.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course Covers tools, joinery, methods, and materials. Content progresses with increasing complexity, involving machining, hand tools, finishing, and surface treatments. Senior Crafts majors taking this course may choose to spend all or part of their time producing thesis work to supplement the thesis component of Crafts Projects III. Prerequisites WOOD*211 and WOOD*212 This course is not repeatable for credit.
90.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course A continuation of CRWD 311. In preparation for the senior thesis, students take on increased responsibility for the form and content of their work. Prerequisites Complete 6 credits from WOOD*211 and WOOD*212
90.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course A continuation of CRWD 311. In preparation for the senior thesis, students take on increased responsibility for the form and content of their work. Prerequisites Complete 6 credits from WOOD*211 and WOOD*212
90.0 hours 400 level undergraduate course In consultation with faculty, students question and refine their interests and begin production of a cohesive body of work for their thesis exhibition. Faculty presentations are complemented by student research and investigation. Prerequisites WOOD*211 and WOOD*212 This course is not repeatable for credit.
90.0 hours 400 level undergraduate course Production of work for the thesis exhibition continues. In preparation for leaving the academic environment, students complete work for their portfolio. Though development of technical skills continues, the emphasis is on having students articulate their ideas and understand the content of their work. Prerequisites WOOD*211 and WOOD*212 This course is not repeatable for credit.
90.0 hours 400 level undergraduate course A continuation of CRWD 313. Problems become more complex as students acquire a level of technical mastery appropriate to their ideas. Emphasis is placed on the student’s conceptual development. Prerequisites SOAC*301
undefined hours 400 level undergraduate course Independent Study offers a matriculated student the opportunity to initiate individual research or advanced projects that are beyond the limits of the standard curriculum. This course requires permission by the offering program office. This course may not be audited. This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
