FINE ARTS PROGRAM SUMMARY FORM: ART
Mission Statement
Completion of the Art Program gives students the theoretical and practical foundation necessary to move into the final two years of a
Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual arts. Art majors often seek employment in art education, museum
exhibition, and art restoration, in addition to working as studio artists and using their knowledge and skills for personal enrichment.
Program Description
The Art Program is designed to result in an Associate of Arts degree in General Art, Commercial Art, or Photography, and meets the
general education requirements for students who choose to transfer to any Idaho public university. In order to ensure transferability of
coursework, students should coordinate course selection with the requirements of the institution to which they intend to transfer.
Art Program: Program Outcomes
PROGRAM
GOAL
Program graduates
will be able to
transfer to four-year
programs with which
the College of
Southern Idaho has
articulation
agreements as easily
as possible.
Program graduates
will have the
academic background
necessary to succeed
in four-year programs
(primarily those with
whom CSI has
articulation
agreements).
PROGRAM
OBJECTIVES
METHODS OF
ASSESSMENT
Post-graduate student
surveys
Art program graduates will
transfer successfully.
Annual department
assessment of course
offerings to ensure
alignment with fouryear institutions.
Art program graduates will be
academically successful in fouryear art programs.
IDEAS FOR
TIMELINE/
OUTCOME
ACCOMPLISHING RESPONSIBLE
Will be mailed to
students based on data
gathered from ARTS
280 courses one year
after graduation and
then 2 years later.
Mailings will go out in
January.
August In Service
Each year
Students will fill out an
exit survey
Filled out during
ARTS 280 Course
Post-graduate student
surveys
Will be mailed to
students based on data
gathered from ARTS
280 courses one year
after graduation and
then 2 years later.
Mailings will go out in
January.
Surveys of four-year
institutions to which the
largest number of
program graduates
transfer.
Annual visits to area
student shows to
determine how current
and former CSI students
compare.
Every semester. Mike
Youngman will
compile results and
present to faculty at
May outcomes
meeting.
Increase program
enrollment
Program enrollment will increase at
a rate commensurate with college
growth
To better understand
who is taking art
classes and why.
Identify alternative learners, and
clarify why groups of people who
have no interest in transferring to
four year schools, sign up for art
classes.
Review of institutional data
and compare to recruitment
plan.
November In
service
Make a yearly summary of
enrollment statistics for
these and maybe other
groups, and include the
summaries in outcomes
folder, in order to clarify
growth of art major
enrollment and the more
fertile category of art
instruction for non-majors.
Compiled the end of
each academic year
by Bill West and
present at August in
service.
General Art Program: Student Learning Outcomes
PROGRAM
GOAL
STUDENT LEARNING
OUTCOME
Students will be able to display
knowledge of art history and
contemporary trends.
METHOD OF
ASSESSMENT
Instruction in the arts
is physical and
intellectual education.
Students learn by
making things. We
want students to learn
the techniques of art
making, the
considerations of how
work is organized
formally, and
ultimately, that art is a
language with an
infinite range of
inflection and
expressive power.
Students will be able to
demonstrate creativity and problem
solving skills.
Students will be able to
demonstrate openness to new ideas,
methodologies, and philosophies.
Students will develop critical skills
in evaluating artwork in terms of
formal issues, iconography, and
cultural context.
TIMELINE
In a one-credit portfolio
defense, art majors will be
responsible for:

Students will be able to
demonstrate technical skills within
each foundation discipline and
demonstrates a fundamental
understanding of the elements of
art and the principles of design.
IDEAS FOR
ACCOMPLISHING




Defending a portfolio
of work from their
program experience
including assessment
based on the
following questions:
questions that
determine the
student’s grasp of art
history, and its
influence on the work
displayed.
questions on how a
piece was made, and
on how design
choices were made.
questions on how
many times ideas
changed in the
process of making the
work
questions on new
ideas and methods of
making art crept into
the process of making
the art
Will be offered
beginning in fall
2007
Will be assessed
during May and
January inservice
OUTCOME

questions about how
critical analysis
might be brought to
bear on the images,
expressions, and
iconography of the
work.
Defense will take place in
front of Art Department
faculty at the end of each
academic year.