COURSE SYLLABUS: PRINTMAKING

Location: Oaxaca City, Mexico

Partner Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Benito Juárez de Oaxaca (UABJO)

Schools of Record (transcript issued by): Universidad Autónoma de Benito Juárez de Oaxaca (UABJO)

Course Title: Printmaking

Course Title (Spanish): Litografìa

Sessions offered: summer, winter, semester, spring break, intensive sessions

Instructional language: Spanish or English

Classroom Contact Hours: 45 contact hours

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 4 quarter units

Pre-requisites: no language requirement (can be taught in English)

Local Department: Español para Extranjeros

Course Code: SP- PRI 255

Course Description

Acquire knowledge about printmaking, lithographs and engravings.

Program

• Assessment of the students' drawings, lecture on printmaking.
• Start drawing with models. This will last throughout the course alternating with printmaking.
• Introduction to etching, and lithography. Use of materials and security measures.
• Preparation of wood and copper plates. Grinding and polishing of plates. Four of each per student - cleared and leveled lithographic plates.
• Evaluation of drawings and start working on prints.
• Woodcut work.
• Lectures on the history of drawing.
• Work in pairs on printing processes.
• Techniques for etching aquatint, burnishing and varnishing.
• Lecture on printmaking and lithography.
• Pencil techniques and lithography inks.
• Development of a portfolio of engravings and lithographs.
• Print techniques.
• Selection of student works that will form a collective exhibition.

Course Evaluation

Participation: 15 %

Assignments: 20 %

Exam: 30 %

Essay or research project: 25 %

Attendance: 10 %

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