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• VAFW 138: Table Systems

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This studio course focuses on table design and construction. Students study classical and contemporary shapes and employ construction techniques. Students explore the relationship of structural issues and design. Prerequisite:    VAFW100 (C or better)
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• VAFW 140: Cabinetmaking

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This studio course focuses on the design, construction, and joinery requirements necessary in cabinet construction when using sheet goods for both free-standing and built-in applications. Students work with a variety of materials, including plywood and composite boards. Prerequisite:    VAFW100 or Corequisite:    VAFW100
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• VAFW 145: Conceptual Furniture

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course focuses on designing and planning furniture. Students will explore design possibilities through hand-drawings, model-making, and digital software. Various construction methods will be addressed. The student, through studio experience, will utilize these concepts to design and create a digital 3-D rendering of furniture leading to a realized experimental piece. Prerequisite:    VAFW100 (C or better) or VAFA102 (C or better)
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• VAFW 180: Woodturning

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This studio course explores the historical and contemporary basics of lathe work. This course investigates both spindle (between center) and bowl (faceplate) turning techniques. Students learn how to care for, sharpen, and use a variety of lathe tools. Students design and make a variety of lathe-turned objects.
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• VAFW 181: Woodturning II

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course provides an in-depth exploration of lathe turning in the traditional, as well as the contemporary context. Multi-axis spindle turning, split turning, and turning in conjunction with processes off the lathe, including carving, shaping, surface ornamentation, and joinery are used to create sculptural and functional items. Prerequisite:    VAFW180 (C or better)
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• VAFW 190: History of American Furniture

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  Students analyze American furniture in the context of craft, elements of style, connoisseurship, historical influences, connections to European and Eastern traditions, socio-economics, regionalism, pattern books, and related domestic architecture. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test score of 6 or COMP107 (C or better)
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• VAFW 280: Fine Woodworking Internship

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  On-the-job experience occurs in a field directly related to the student's academic preparation and career objectives. Periodic meetings between the College Coordinator and the student are held to evaluate the student's performance. Prerequisite:    Fine Woodworking major, 30 BCCC credits, a GPA of 2.5 earned in courses offered by the Arts and Communication Department.
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• VAGD 101: Layout and Basic Typography

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  Using manual methods for layout and design, together with current software applications, students explore the relationship between text and image, as well as the design and impact of typography. Students analyze a variety of published materials and complete a series of introductory graphic design projects. Prerequisite:    VAMM100 (C or better)
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• VAGD 102: Illustration - Drawing and Digital

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course introduces drawing strategies, concepts, and specialized illustration techniques used by designers and illustrators. Students create illustrations in both traditional and digital formats. Emphasis is on realistic modeling approaches and rendering skills, as well as expressive and historical perspectives that an illustrator-designer must have. Prerequisite:    VAMM100 (C or better) and VAFA100 (C or better) or the permission of the Arts Department
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• VAGD 190: Graphic Design History

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This graphic design survey course covers visual communication since the Middle Ages, focusing on the period from the Arts & Crafts Movement through Postmodernism. Students gain a formal understanding, and they interpret selected examples using a variety of analytic methodologies, including cultural, religious, social, political, and/or economic context. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test score of 6 or better or COMP107 (C or better)
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