Students must be prepared to relate their understanding of artistic styles and principles to all major visual art media, and attitudes relating to human, personal considerations, and to social, economic and cultural components that give communities their particular identity. In the arts, the communication skills competency is based on both oral and written experiences. The students ability to verbally express understanding of the art produced, as well as the art produced by peers. This is accomplished through formal critiques, both individual and group, under the direction of one or more faculty members in the School of Art. In the area of written communication skills, students develop an understanding of the common elements and vocabulary of art, place works of art in historical and stylistic context, and form and defend value judgements about art through writing papers in art history, journals in studio courses, and thesis statements in the capstone course.
Problem solving skills in the arts are compatible with every aspect of the creative process.
Students studying art and design create works in the studio setting and use the process of creativity as the method for problem solving. Ability to communicate ideas within a specific art form. A coherent set of artistic goals evident in student work and the ability to achieve those goals as an independent professional. Develop responses to visual phenomena, and organize perceptions and conceptualizations both rationally and intuitively. The assessment activities described below take place in Art 490, the senior capstone course.