Art Department
CSUH
Mission Statement
Creativity in the visual arts is central—but not enough. The successful artist
needs imagination coupled with knowledge, technical skill and discipline.
Providing students with in-depth knowledge and skills in one or more areas, the
Art Program at CSUH offers education in the traditional visual arts and in the new
media arts. The Program fosters the development of creative, self-examined,
ethical, responsible individuals capable of effectively expressing their vision in the
chosen medium. Students develop skills in spatial, pictorial and temporal media
along with knowledge of art history and cultural history.
With its emphasis on content and personal direction, the curriculum fosters not
only technical fluency, but also seriousness, playfulness and fearlessness in
approaching the art-making process. Art courses make art relevant for all
students and provide insights on the multiple relationships between art and its
audience. Students develop an awareness of self within the context of past and
contemporary art in world cultures. The development of verbal/written skills is
integrated with artistic development for critical analysis and for understanding
history’s ongoing relevance to current artistic practices, purposes and values.
The CSUH Art Program provides a sense of community among faculty, staff, and
students—a sense that helps build self-confidence and developmental
momentum. As a final goal, students are encouraged to achieve a strong
engagement with their own art, enabling them to pursue graduate study or to
practice art as professional artists or for personal enrichment.
Art Department Program Goals
These goals are set up into categories, which the department feels help to itemize.
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• Systemic creativity and joy in their work
• Imagination
• Individual sense of self
• Curious confident and participatory
• Original thinkers that approach ideas with innovation
Knowledge
• Base Knowledge of Art History and Cultural History
• Students should have the ability to articulate a response to artwork in any medium.
• Students should have the ability to function in both right and left brains.
• Students should have the firm knowledge of contemporary artistic practices.
Skills
• Students should have the ability to articulate and critique historical work, their peer’s
work and their own work.
• Students should have the ability to conceptualize an idea, and to evolve from concept to
image or extended artwork.
• Students should have a firm grasp of problem solving.
• Students should know effective use of line, color, balance, form and pattern.
• Competence in traditional drawing.
CSUH Art Department
Assessment
Outcomes and Indicators
Overall Outcome Indicator: Student Polls
The CSUH Art Department will initiate an exit poll for all students to be
completed during their grad check with advisor. This will be a scannable
questionnaire filled out anonymously. It will poll their educational experience
within the department, their opinions on artistic development and progress, and
their level of professional preparation.
The Art Department will also initiate a 2-year alumni review. The purpose of this
will be to monitor the effectiveness and meaning of their education by a longterm method. It will include alumni satisfaction and post-graduation professional
activities. These will be conducted in the Spring Quarter with results available in
the following Fall Quarter.
Outcome:
CSUH Art Students should be able to work in an individual style that expresses
their particular view or statement.
Indicator: Participation in regular critiques, passing grades of “C” or
above in Studio Classes.
Portfolio Review by Faculty Member
Outcome:
Student’s artwork should demonstrate commitment in their work and confidence
in their vision.
Indicator: Completion of Senior Project.
Completion of Senior Statement
Outcome:
Should know the connection their work has to work of the past and various
cultural influences.
Indicator: Passing grades in World Art History, Modern Art and one
additional upper division Art History Class.
Completion of Senior Statement
History of Photography
History of Art and Technology
Outcome:
Students are encouraged to produce artwork with a meaningful content and to
form an emotional connection to their work.
Indicator: Participation in required Studio Courses based on their
Option
Completion of Senior Project
Studio Class Critique Dialogues
Exit Poll
Knowledge
Outcome:
Students should be able to discuss artistic trends as they relate to the
development of art.
Indicator: Senior Statement
Completion of assigned written critiques of Museum Shows
assigned in some studio classes
Participation in Senior Seminar
Outcome:
Students should have exposure to and a familiarity of world art.
Indicator: Completion of World Art History course requirement
Senior Statement
Completion of Modern Art History course requirement
Outcome:
Students should be able to discuss artistic developments as general concepts and
as they apply to Modern Art.
Indicator: Participation in Critique process in studio courses.
Senior Statement
Successful Completion of Modern Art History requirement
Outcome:
Students should be able to see their work and the work of their peers as it
relates to culture.
Indicator: Senior Statement
Senior Project
Exposure to cultural arts through World Art History
requirement, and additional choice of upper division Art
History requirement.
Skills
Outcome:
Students should be able to produce written statements about their work.
Indicator: Senior Artist Statement
Outcome:
Students should be able to address artwork by peers with intelligent critical
analysis.
Indicator: Participation in Studio Critiques
Outcome:
Students should be able to work an idea from sketch to completion.
Indicator: Passing Grade of C or better in at least one of the following:
Drawing I requirement
Introduction to Electronic Art, Introduction to Digital Design,
and Art for the Web, Digital Graphics III: Advanced Graphic
Design
Outcome:
Students should be able to produce a coherent body of work.
Indicator: Passing Grade of C or better in at least one of the following:
Multimedia V: Portfolio Project
Digital Graphics V: Portfolio Project
Senior Portfolio
Problem Solving
Outcome:
Students should know how to find information to solve a problem, list and test
solutions.
Indicator: Passing grade in Creative Process
Outcome:
Students should be able to use line in an effective appropriate and meaningful
way.
Indicator: Passing Grade of C or better in at least two of the following:
Drawing I
Senior Portfolio
Introduction to Electronic Art
Introduction to Digital Design
Multimedia V: Portfolio Project
Digital Graphics V: Portfolio Project
Outcome:
Should have knowledge of color theory: laws of contrast, basic color wheel
knowledge including compliments, secondaries, tertiaries, and harmonies.
Indicator: Grade of C or above in one of the following:
Basics of Electronic Art
Introduction to Digital Graphics
Color Photography
Painting II
Outcome:
Students should be exposed to and have some knowledge of two-dimensional,
three dimensional and time-based artwork.
Indicator: (At least two of the following):
Creative Process - Project in 2-dimensional design, project in
3-dimensional design
CSUH Art Department Assessment Documents
Outcome Assessment:
Method:
Capstone Classes: the production of a body of cohesive artwork
When/Where Course/Time
Senior Year Class
Electronic Art Students:
Either Multimedia V: Portfolio Project or Digital Graphics V: Portfolio Project and
Senior Seminar in Electronic Arts
Traditional Art Students: Senior Thesis, Senior Seminar and Senior Thesis
Faculty member instructing the course assesses the students and feedback is in the form of a
grade. This data could be collected and reported to faculty by an Assessment Coordinator.
Method:
Exit Survey to be conducted by Faculty Advisor during Grad Check. (bubble form) Regular Faculty
will review the results of these at the start of Fall Quarter each year for departmental feedback.
The data will be collated as a scan-tron and reviewed by regular tenured and tenure track faculty.
We will also conduct an alumni poll on a two year cycle. The data would be collated by the
administrative staff. The Assessment coordinator would collect it for review by Faculty in the Fall
Quarter.
Midway Assessment Review:
Each student will have their work reviewed by a Faculty Member in their Option area in the class
they are taking at the end of their Junior Year. This class varies in each Option but represents a
midway point for all art students. Students will get the feedback directly and a review of the data
can be reported to the Assessment Coordinator.
Incoming Assessment
Method:
Upon declaring Art as a major, all students would be sent by the office staff a questionaire. The
questionaire would review previous instructional experience, artisitic skill level as percieved by the
student in key areas (as outlined in the goals and Indicators), and educational expectations.
This data would be collected by Administrative Staff and assessed by the Assessment Coodinator
and Department Chair with a review given to Faculty at the end of the quarter. (Entering students
enter all year) For Student feedback, a copy of the collated data would be posted in the
department.
ASSESSMENT 2001-2002
DEPARTMENT OF ART OUTCOMES ANALYSIS
Outcome Key Coding
DEPT.
LEARNING OUTCOME DESCRIPTION
ART
Address artwork by peers with intelligent critical analysis and see their
work and the work of their peers as it relates to culture.
ART
Know how to find information to solve a problem, list and test solutions.
ART
Produce written statements about their work.
ART
Discuss artistic trends as they relate to the development of world art and
artistic developments as general concepts and as they apply to Modern
Art.
Primary
Key Code
Secondary
Key Code
Outcomes
Knowledge
Skill
AGE-CT
S
AGE-IL
S
AGE-W
S
CA
K
Knowledge of color theory: laws of contrast, basic color wheel knowledge
including compliments, secondaries, tertiaries, and harmonies.
DK
K
ART
Be exposed to and have some knowledge of two dimensional, three
dimensional and time-based artwork.
DK
K
ART
Should know the connection their work has to work of the past and various
cultural influences.
DK
K
ART
ART
Work an idea from sketch to completion.
Produce a coherent body of work.
EXPR
S
EXPR
S
ART
Use line in an effective appropriate and meaningful way.
EXPR
S
ART
Produce artwork with a meaningful content and to form an emotional
connection to their work.
EXPR
S
ART
Artwork should demonstrate commitment in their work,confidence in their
vision and the ability to work in an individual style that expresses their
particular view or statement.
EXPR
ART
Disposition
CONTENT KEY CODE
DEFINITION
Advanced General Education
Critical Thinking
Advanced General Education
Information Literacy
Advanced General Education
Writing
Creativity/Aesthtics
Discipline Knowledge
Expression/Production
D
ART MM MA
Understanding of meaning and media: the evolution of information
across a variety of media types.
AK
K
ART MM MA
Students should have knowledge of application development for
multimedia and telecommunications.
AK
K
ART MM MA Students should have the knowledge of current trends and
practices in multimedia.
AK
K
AK
K
CA
K
Creativity/Aesthtics
DK
K
Discipline Knowledge
ART MM MA Students should have the ability to demonstrate a variety of production
skills in imaging, interactivity, audio production and network distribution.
EXPR
S
Students will produce an interactive thesis project that demonstrates a novel
ART MM MA and/or creative use of a single or combination of interactive technologies
within a team.
EXPR
S
ART MM MA Students will create a written documentation of the Thesis Project and
process that conforms to the guidelines of the department.
EXPR
S
ART MM MA
Students should have the knowledge of learning theories as they apply to
multimedia and interactive design.
ART MM MA Students should have good content aesthetics.
ART MM MA
Students should have knowledge of basic business practices such as the
ability to go from idea to business plan.
Area Knolwedge
Expression/Production
Assessment Summary
California State University, Hayward
Art Department
Summary: Spring Quarter, 2002
Entrance Poll and Exit Poll
Questions for each poll were developed and edited. Care was taken not to
focus on the program but the student’s disposition both when entering the
program and after completing the program. The poll questions were
designed to be distributed online due to the large number of majors and
the impracticality of staffing a survey in person. They were also
designed in a multiple-choice format to again facilitate the numbers
while still giving results.
There were some initial problems with the distribution. Blackboard is
designed for either a graded survey (online quiz) or an anonymous survey.
We needed a non-graded but traceable survey. Michael Strait helped to
set this up in a program he was testing on other departments. This
survey was up and tested during the end of Spring quarter on a small
group of entering students. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the
send in coding and none of the students testing it were able to send
their data in. Since then, the problem has been repaired and the
students were emailed to volunteer to take the survey again.
The exit poll was put online but this poll is designed to be completed
during the “Grad Check” process. As most of our students complete their
grad checks in the Fall and Winter quarters, this survey will be tested
in Fall 2002.
Redesign/ Plans for 2002/2003
The poll questions are relevant and can be redesigned after more use and
evaluation. The data structure needs to be developed. The database used
is and unknown experimental database that is linked to through
Blackboard. The department would like to see a program that is local.
The retrieval of the results currently must be done by request to Michael
Strait. This is an impractical procedure long term both for the
retrieval of data and the editing of the polls themselves.
We would
like to see a database developed that could be accessed by members of the
Departmental Assessment Committee directly in 2002-2003.
Rubrics for Senior Portfolio Projects
The Rubrics for evaluating the Senior Portfolio Project were also
developed in Spring Quarter. This proved to be challenging as there are
several Option areas in the Art Department and the rubrics had to address
all of the Options and Mediums. Essentially, they had to be broad enough
to be useful to all but specific enough to be understandable. The rubrics
were broken up into four basic areas: Skill Mastery of the Medium,
Quality of Presentation, Cohesive Quality, and Level of Creative
Expression.
Redesign/ Plans for 2002/2003
It is difficult to define by word what visual imagery communicates and
conveys. The Rubrics are an Outline but should be supplemented by
examples of professional work related to the specific medium by the
faculty instructing the course. The department will continue to work on
the rubrics. They have been distributed for feedback and will be further
edited in the Fall of 2002.
ePortfolios
The midyear assessment will be developed using online Portfolios residing
in Blackboard. Although there is yet to be a full plan for the use of
online portfolios, the Blackboard staff (Anne Judd) feels that they can
easily accommodate the space needed for each of the Department’s majors
to have an online portfolio. The use of this falls into the area of
“Reflection” as categorized by the American Association of Higher
Education. The development of online portfolios will need funds for
photographing and digitally preparing traditional media for online
presentation. This would require the purchasing of a digital camera for
use by all students and the purchase of a computer and slide scanner that
could be available for any of our majors. It will also require the
training of the traditional students as to how to properly photograph
artwork. (Instruction on traditional slide photography is give in the
Senior Seminar but this is too late for the mid-year Assessment
requirement and the portfolios should be developed in an ongoing manner,
not at the end of the Senior Year). This could be done through a short
workshop within, for example, Art 1020: Creative Process. This course is
required of all of the option students.