Students enrolled in this course will pursue a more advanced level of work, exploring a variety of techniques, clays and firings within the framework of class assignments that challenge their conceptual and aesthetic abilities. Exposure to contemporary trends in the field will be introduced and discussed through the Galen Ceramics Lecture Series, field trips to exhibitions, video and PowerPoint presentations, and directed readings. Students participate in class discussion on readings and critiques of assigned work in which they are expected to clearly articulate the basis of their own work.