PROGRAM OUTCOMES AND COURSE MATRIX
A.S. Visual and Performing Arts with a Concentration in Art and Design
SP
211
Program Outcomes
1. Students will demonstrate a progressive understanding of the various
elements and basic interrelated processes of creation, interpretation, and
execution within their discipline.
2. In written work, discussion and creation of art, students will
appropriately utilize the vocabulary of their respective discipline.
3. In discussion and written assignments, students will observe, analyze
and critique works of art.
4. Students will be able to place works of art and/or performances in
historical and stylistic contexts and demonstrate appreciation of the
cultural milieu in which they were created.
5. Students will integrate personal observation and objective criticism in
the evolution of their artistic work.
6. Students will form and defend fundamental value judgments about
works of art within their major area of concentration.
7. Employing creative abstraction, metaphor and imagination, students will
create art which clearly articulates their evolving artistic vision, and satisfies
their drive toward expression.
Specific Disciplinary Outcomes
8. Use the principles inherent in form, function and expression at various
levels of experience to deconstruct, construct and reconstruct aesthetic
product
9. Apply increasingly sophisticated design principles to various media and
visual forms
10. Exercise a value judgment about the works of individual photographers
HE
101
or
HE
102
Major Courses (Note course prefixes and numbers updated for Fall 2014)
PE
Concentration 21-23 Credits
400,
500
Series,
DAN
100
Series
*Six credits from Art History courses
below:
15-18 cr. from any other ARTH or
ARTS courses: CONT. BELOW
ARTH 100,
101, 202
(AR 310,
311, 312)
ARTS
121
AR
121)
ARTS
122
(AR
122)
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
ARTH 115,
116, 117
(AR 315,
316, 317)
ARTH
120
(AR
320)
ARTH
126
(AR
326)
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
ARTS 182,
186, 286
(AR 230,
231, 232)
X
X
X
X
ARTS
221
(AR
148)
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
11. Examine different manifestations of cultural symbolism within a work
of art in relation to geographic, historical and cultural contexts
12. Recognize and discuss the social, psychological, emotional and
aesthetic implications of works of art in our culture, as well as other
cultures and times.
13. Use design principles, theories and practice, and art historical analysis
to approach and apprehend the diversity of human culture and expression
in theory and life.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
*Students may fulfill one or two of these requirements as part of the Common Core; in that case they can take three to six additional credits among the ARTH and ARTS offerings.
Concentration (see above) and 15-18 credits from any other ARTH or ARTS courses:
CONCENTRATION CONTINUED:
Program Outcomes
1. Students will demonstrate a progressive understanding of the various
elements and basic interrelated processes of creation, interpretation, and
execution within their discipline.
2. In written work, discussion and creation of art, students will
appropriately utilize the vocabulary of their respective discipline.
3. In discussion and written assignments, students will observe, analyze
and critique works of art.
4. Students will be able to place works of art and/or performances in
historical and stylistic contexts and demonstrate appreciation of the
cultural milieu in which they were created.
5. Students will integrate personal observation and objective criticism in
the evolution of their artistic work.
6. Students will form and defend fundamental value judgments about
works of art within their major area of concentration.
7. Employing creative abstraction, metaphor and imagination, students will
create art which clearly articulates their evolving artistic vision, and satisfies
their drive toward expression.
Specific Disciplinary Outcomes
8. Use the principles inherent in form, function and expression at various
levels of experience to deconstruct, construct and reconstruct aesthetic
product
ARTS 262,
263,
130,131,
132(AR-262,
263, 271,
272, 280)
ARTS 141,
242, 343,
344 (AR
461, 462,
463, 464)
ARTS
345
(AR
465)
ARTS
346,
348
(AR
466,
468)
ARTS
349
(AR
469)
ARTS 291,
243
(AR 473,
474)
ARTS 271,
272
(AR 510,
511)
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
ARTS
151
(AR
251)
ARTS
252, 253
(AR 252,
253)
X
X
X
X
ARTS
161
(AR
261)
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
9. Apply increasingly sophisticated design principles to various media and
visual forms
10. Exercise a value judgment about the works of individual photographers
11. Examine different manifestations of cultural symbolism within a work
of art in relation to geographic, historical and cultural contexts
12. Recognize and discuss the social, psychological, emotional and
aesthetic implications of works of art in our culture, as well as other
cultures and times.
13. Use design principles, theories and practice, and art historical analysis
to approach and apprehend the diversity of human culture and expression
in theory and life.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X