2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Mar 13, 2025  
2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook
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FUNS 293 - Restorative Art and Modeling


Credits: 3
Description
The restorative arts focus on the reconstruction and restoration of a decedent’s features in an attempt to make them appear as they did pre-mortem. Using a variety of techniques including clay, fillings, cosmetics, photographs, solvents, anatomical modeling, and lighting, this course will allow the student to understand the use of these items to reconstruct and restore the features of the decedent.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Define the terminology and vocabulary used in the restorative arts.
  2. Recognize the major bone structures of the skull, muscles of the face, facial proportions, and the natural and acquired facial markings on the face and neck.
  3. Explain the importance of and how to obtain written or oral permission to perform restorative procedures.
  4. Utilize color theory and the use of color in cosmetic compounds when applied to a decedent for restoration.
  5. Demonstrate basic hair styling techniques, wax and/or clay modeling of facial features, and the application of cosmetics on a model or mannequin.
  6. Argue a case to not provide reconstructive services and propose alternatives to full reconstruction.
  7. Describe the interdependence and differences of restorative arts and embalming procedures.
  8. Build a model of cranial and facial features using a picture as reference assuring scale, proportion, form, coloring, and skin texture from both a direct and profile view.

Prerequisite: Instructor approval
Corequisite: None
Graded: Letter Grade



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