Produce artworks with media and techniques that support well-developed concepts, and that represent the student’s original work.
Create works that integrate a broad knowledge of artistic cultures, while at the same time, acknowledging any debt to those cultures.
Demonstrate an awareness of the diversity of one’s audience and of ways in which diversity shapes audience reception.
Craft artists’ statements that reflect an understanding of broader artistic practices and of the impact of social identity on one’s artwork and career.
Listen carefully to others’ discussions of their artworks and critique those works in respectful and constructive ways.
II. ARTISTIC SKILL AND PRESENTATION
Create a portfolio that meets current disciplinary standards and practices.
Develop a body of artwork suitable for public exhibition.
Present one’s work using appropriate language, documentation, and installation methods.
Art History Courses: Student Learning Objectives
I. GRASP OF CONTENT; SKILLS IN VISUAL LITERACY AND PERCEPTION
Familiarity with artists, works, movements, and historical/cultural contexts foregrounded in our Art History courses.
An understanding of principles of composition, including color, shape, linear configurations, etc., with an awareness of the psychological impact of visual form.
An understanding of the rhetorical functions of imagery, both historically and in contemporary culture, with particular attention to how visual rhetoric serves to reinforce or to challenge systems of power.
II. CRITICAL THINKING AND READING SKILLS
The ability to distinguish fact from conjecture and interpretation.
The ability to assess the validity of theories and arguments.
The ability to analyze the ways in which differing arguments and viewpoints (of artists, patrons, and historians/critics) reflect different and often unequal social positioning in relation to systems of class, race, gender, sexuality, and other forms of social identity; to evaluate such arguments and viewpoints, and to formulate individual, well-informed perspectives.
The ability to approach issues from multiple critical perspectives, and to appreciate the reasons for more than one point of view.
III. RESEARCH SKILLS
The ability to find information on any given topic, and to be discriminating about the source and quality of that information.
The ability to distinguish between what one brings to a topic and what comes from other sources, and to make proper acknowledgment of those sources.
IV. WRITTEN AND ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS
The ability to formulate clear arguments, supported by evidence.
Control of the elements of grammar, syntax, word choice, and punctuation.
The ability to write skillfully for a broad range of audiences, both academic and general, using the appropriate voices, formats, and levels of formality.
