Learning Outcomes

All Fine Arts Undergraduates Majors and Minors

Students will demonstrate ability to:

• Demonstrate proficiency in various processes/techniques, and skills/methods in creative media.
• Identify and apply underlying aesthetic principles in the study, critique, and creation and/or performance of works of art.
• Analyze the broader social/historical contexts of works of art.

Learning Outcomes for the Visual Arts Major

Thinking Critically:

• Analyze and critique the artworks of others and their own creative process
• Develop a visual vocabulary through the process of discussion and critique
• Self-assess work, and the progression of individual output and growth
• Synthesize experience and techniques learned in the major
• Identify, measure, and develop aesthetics to form
• Develop an integrated perspective on the arts in conjunction to historic and contemporary issues

Communicating Effectively:

• Communicate through oral presentation and writing using the visual vocabulary of the arts
• Develop visual literacy by reading and interpreting texts associated with the arts
• Refine oral presentation via presentations and class critique
• Refine writing skills through analysis and interpretation of artworks
• Identify works (historic and contemporary) and learn how such works have shaped visual communication

Understanding Context:

• Introduce historical, social and environmental context of individual artists
• Explore personal expression of an artwork, dance, or music composition
• Discuss family, social, historical, political or environmental issues related to the arts
• Study aesthetics and accumulated knowledge in the context of contemporary issues in the arts

Appreciating Aesthetic Experience:

• Perceive and express an aesthetic experience through verbal and visual communication
• Define the experience with an informed perception of the arts
• Develop one's individual unique pace and pattern for the conceptual development, creation and perception of works
• Discover the aesthetic experience as personally meaningful
• Assimilate the aesthetic experience as having social and historical relevance

Defining a Personal Identity:

• Identify one's strengths and weaknesses as learners
• Develop one's self-direction and discipline, and demonstrate these qualities in the classroom
• Demonstrate awareness of physical, social, psychological, and spiritual identity
• Develop a personal artistic style and vision
• Conceptualize and create work from idea to physical form
• Develop mutual respect for others via an articulate and informed critique process
• Prepare students using best practices for the demands of working in the professional world

Examining Value Systems:

• Appreciate the diversity of aesthetic expression in the environment
• Study value systems that have shaped the aesthetic of a diversity of cultures
• Study the evolving value systems of aesthetic history of their own culture

Adapting and Innovating:

• Access verbal and visual information from a variety of sources
• Integrate processes for adapting and advancing within the constantly changing art world