Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
Wood Working
Wood Working explores wood as a medium for constructing creative and functional three-dimensional forms.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Develop an understanding and a "material empathy" for wood. Knowing how to best carve, shape and build basic forms with it, including the most common frame or box construction joints.
Understand when and how to employ different processes and techniques, based on what your project or idea needs: structurally, conceptually, and aesthetically.
Develop knowledge of woodworking terms to make discussing projects/ideas and buying materials easier.
Demonstrate safe and efficient use of the machine and hand tools commonly used in woodworking.
Develop an understanding of the baggage that comes with working with wood, from historical, cultural, and environmental viewpoints, as well as others.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
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Prerequisites
Course map(ART 104, 112, 212, 214, 224, 244, 354 or DS 220) or declared in an Art graduate program
“Used by” includes alternatives; linked courses may have other requirements. This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.
Professors
Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
KATIE HUDNALL is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAB 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 10 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
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Topics
- Constructing creative and functional three-dimensional forms using wood.
- Historical, cultural, and environmental contexts of working with wood.
Skills
- Carve, shape, and build basic forms in wood, including frame or box construction joints.
- Employ woodworking processes and techniques based on structural, conceptual, and aesthetic needs.
- Use machine and hand tools safely and efficiently.
- Apply woodworking terminology for project discussion and material selection.
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
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Wood Working
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Model & dataset provenance
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