Student Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes for undergraduate programs

As members of a broader community, students will be able to exhibit community engagement.
As members of a broader community, students will be able to exhibit ethical leadership.
As members of a broader community, students will be able to exhibit cultural competence.

Students will be able to demonstrate fluency with formal vocabulary, artistic techniques and procedures of art practice.
Students will be able to communicate a critical understanding of past and present works of art and visual objects from a diversity of cultures.
As members of a broader community, students will be able to exhibit ethical leadership, community engagement and cultural competence.

Students will be able to communicate their ideas effectively in visual, verbal, and written form.
Students will demonstrate an awareness of the diversity of form, content, and aims of art over time and between cultures.
Students will recognize the value of a range of current and past theoretical discourses applicable to the study of art.
Students will be able to describe and perform competent visual analyses of art and visual culture, while employing disciplinary terminology.
Subdisciplinary outcomes within individual major options:
- Art History and Visual Culture: Students will be able to effectively research art and be able to synthesize and express the resulting knowledge coherently.
- Museum Studies: Students will understand the role and function of museums from a historical perspective as well as in contemporary society and local communities.
- Studio Art: Students will demonstrate proficiency with selected visual media.

Students’ creative work demonstrates visual problem solving through an understanding of the elements and principles of visual organization.
Students demonstrate knowledge of technical and aesthetic issues in their discipline.
Students demonstrate an ability to critically assess works of art in regard to form, content and technical concerns.
Students demonstrate an understanding of historical and contemporary issues within their discipline
Students demonstrate a willingness to explore and innovate personal solutions within their creative work.

Students demonstrate ability in drawing: perception, translation of 3-D into 2-D space, composition, and expression.
Students demonstrate relevant computer skills and proficiencies
Students demonstrate typographic knowledge: rules, hierarchy, organization, expression
Students demonstrate problem solving: systematic, conceptual and expressive
Students demonstrate innovation, imagination, creative thinking
Students demonstrate ability in writing: organization, communication, and clarity of expression

Are able to understand, motivate, and engage K-12 learners in the study and appreciation of visual art
Grow a teaching skillset and receive feedback. Teaching presentations are videotaped and discussed in group settings
Are able to demonstrate teaching proficiencies by meeting state teaching certification requirements.
Are able to demonstrate fluency with formal vocabulary, artistic techniques, and procedures of art practice.
Are able to communicate a critical understanding of past and present works of art and visual objects from a diversity of cultures.
Are able to critically analyze content in their specialty area.
Are able to demonstrate knowledge of global, historic, and cultural perspectives in contemporary art education practices.