Visual Arts, B.A.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the program of Visual Arts with concentrations in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking, Sculpture and Installation, and Photography will be able to:

1. Apply the art elements and design principles to two-and/or three-dimensional visual art forms to critically analyze works of art.
2. Create original works of art that demonstrate a contemporary approach to theory, media, and technology.
3. Write and speak knowledgeably and critically about issues relevant to historically important artists, art styles, and art movements.
4. Write and speak with coherency and self-awareness about their own artwork or research, and its relationship to contemporary culture and art history.
5. Pursue graduate or artist/scholars-in-residency programs, gallery and museum exhibitions, and public art commissions.

Students who complete the program in Visual Art with a concentration in Art History will be able to:

1. Recognize a wide range of artists, visual art forms, and cultures from the history of Western and Non-Western art.
2. Create original, contemporary artworks in studio and/or design that illustrate current skills and techniques in selected art media and technologies.
3. Use the elements of art and principles of design to critically analyze and interpret historical and contemporary art forms.

Students who complete the program in Visual Art with a concentration in Video, Performance, and Interactive Media will be able to:

1. Perform technological skills and techniques to produce time-based artworks in video, performance, or interactive media.
2. Use the elements of art and principles of design to describe, analyze, and evaluate works of time-based art.
3. Apply historical and contemporary art forms and theories to time-based media.

Concentrations