Courses

Post-Fire: Raku, Pit, & Obvara is a summer ceramics studio course designed to serve as a hands-on participatory overview of a wide variety of low temperature post-fire surface techniques not comprehensively covered in the general Ceramics curriculum.

This course is designed to certify students with Avid Media Composer User Certification. This certification is recognized worldwide as the industry standard for assistant editors in feature films and broadcast television. This course will equip students with a unique skillset and knowledge of industry standard digital imaging, editorial process and story forging on both motion picture and episodic nonlinear productions.

The course will introduce students to intermediate and advanced techniques for post-production audio for film and video using specialized software such as Adobe Audition or Pro-Tools. Students will learn the concept of sound design and use techniques such as rerecording dialogue and creating Foley to enrich the sound of finished projects. Students will also learn mixing techniques to ensure that all elements are audible final projects.

Pottery Techniques is a process premised intermediate course that provides students with the opportunity to expand their technical skills, experience, and critical thinking skills through the completion of a series of wheel-thrown and hand-built vessel specific projects.

This course will cover sources of energy production and how that energy is transported across complex power grids and networks. It will include aspects of geography and environmental discussions.

This course provides students with knowledge, risk management, and skills associated with ignition and starting systems. Topics include reciprocating and turbine engine ignition and starting systems.

Banking and Finance

Allows opportunities to demonstrate critical thinking skills and assessment based management techniques through competency based evaluations relevant to the practice of a Paramedic. Topics include: Assessment Based Management for Paramedics.

A hands-on introduction to the use of personal computers and software: input/output devices, graphical user interfaces, terminology, and software.

Emphasizes study of government and politics in the United States. The focus of the course will provide an overview of the Constitutional foundations of the American political processes with a focus on government institutions and political procedures. The course will examine the constitutional framework, federalism, civil liberties and civil rights, public opinion, the media, interest groups, political parties, and the election process along with the three branches of government.