Ms. J. Steensma Hoag. This course explores the role and function of jewelry in culture. When making jewelry students consider the three-dimensional design, technical, and expressive qualities as sculpture. Class time involves exploring metalsmithing techniques like forging, cold joining, soldering, and casting. Students are required to make six pieces of jewelry, successfully pass written quizzes, and present a paper to the class on a historical or contemporary style in jewelry, a well-known contemporary jeweler, or the philosophy of jewelry.
Methodology includes lectures, demonstrations, slides, a guest lecturer, and a field trip.
Art 209 or permission of the instructor. Ms. H. Bonzelaar. Pencils, zipdisks, and coke cans-all things humanly produced are born of imagination. This course introduces the process of product design in the automotive interior industry from research to visual imaging, engineering, production, marketing, and use. JCI, a leading firm in the design and production of automotive interiors serving both national and international clients, provides paradigms that can be applied broadly to product development within contemporary culture.