This assessment deals with student experiences in introductory courses. Issues discussed are to include preparation for advanced course work, contribution to general education, and contributions to the University mission. The purpose of this assessment is the improvement of service to majors, related majors, and non-major preparation. Students should gain a working knowledge of vocabulary used to describe movements and periods. An ability to discuss art works and to place them in a chronology is expected.
Drawing is considered a universal element in working toward a career in the arts.
Organizational elements of two and three dimensional art work are be confidently and accurately discussed by students entering upper division course work. From foundation level course in art history students should be able to place major monuments of art within cultures and within periods. In establishing skills necessary to move forward in the major, students are expected to focus on good working habits and self discipline . Risk taking, and invention of idiosyncratic approaches to art making is not expected of introductory level students. Proper seminar size in the undergraduate curriculum is assumed to be fifteen and it should be possible to have classes of that size.