ART& 100 - Art Appreciation

1. Gain proficiency in understanding the relationship between art making, the language of art, and the viewer’s approach to works of art in different traditions.
2. Gain proficiency in understanding the relationship between art and society (socially and politically), to understand the elements and principles of art and society, and to understand the function of art, to clarify, to intensify, or otherwise enlarge our understanding of how art operates- within different traditions.
3. Demonstrate a basic familiarity with differing art-making methods, materials and media and an understanding of the elements and principles of art and an ability to apply these to analyze the compositional structure of art works.

1. Demonstrated by textbook chapter tests, video responses, artist’s studio projects, and the final self portrait which focus on composition.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 105 - Beginning Drawing

1. Show proficiency with hand/eye coordination in relationship to drawing from observation.
2. Apply sighting methods to check proportion, angles, and spatial alignments.
3. Identify and apply atmospheric and linear perspective concepts.
4. Show familiar with a variety of black and white media, including the use of eraser as a drawing tool.
5. Understand the many components of light and shadow, and the descriptive quality of surface texture.
6. Demonstrate the ability to use effective compositions in their drawings.
7. Show proficiency with various drawing techniques, gesture, contour, and tonal.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 106 - Intermediate Drawing

1. Develop observation skills in terms of weight, balance, and gesture of the figure.
2. Explore the various possibilities within the picture plane in a more creative and complex manner.
3. Investigate the abstraction of human form.
4. Explore the use of traditional materials, including mixed media.
5. Apply skills and concepts for creative expression.
6. Analyze the context in a drawing.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 107 - Advanced Drawing

1. Develop observation skills and translating observations into visual expressions.
2. Experiment with a variety of surfaces, drawing media, and collage to investigate line, value, form, and composition.
3. Investigate traditional techniques and contemporary trends.
4. Consider the figure as a vehicle for conveying meaning and as a vital way to invoke associations to culture and history.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 109 - Beginning Design

1. Demonstrate their approach to the creative process by developing and refining ideas, problem solving, working through technical and craftsmanship challenges, and reflecting upon a resolved solution.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the basic elements and principles of design through the completion of creative projects.
3. Participate in critiques and demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate art using reasoned judgment and clear design vocabulary.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 110 - Intermediate Design and Color

1. Demonstrate understanding of the theoretical rules within the additive and subtractive color systems.
2. Mix color and how to use a color wheel.
3. Demonstrate understanding of the basic properties of color; hue, value and saturation.
4. Demonstrate understanding of palette relationships through the use of color harmonies and chords.
5. Create art that demonstrates conceptual understanding of color through color’s expressive and spatial effects. 
6. Demonstrate understanding of local color, subjective color and optical color.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 111 - Painting 1

1. Demonstrate compositional development of objects/shapes in the picture plane.
2. Create simple to involved landscape and still-life assignments. 
3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
4. Demonstrate color evaluation and its relationship to creating depth and volume.
5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 112 - Painting 2

1. Demonstrate advanced compositional development.
2. Create 3-dimensional landscapes on a 2-dimensional surface using traditional perspective theories. 
3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
4. Demonstrate the use of color as a signifier.
5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

ART 113 - Painting 3

1. Demonstrate advanced compositional development.
2. Create 3-dimensional landscapes on a 2-dimensional surface using traditional perspective theories. 
3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
4. Demonstrate the use of color as a signifier.
5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

ART 114 - Pottery 1

1. Demonstrate the fundamental methods of clay construction in pottery and sculpture.
2. Be exposed to the fundamental concerns of clay sculpture and utilitarian pottery.
3. Demonstrate a familiarity with ceramic terminology and process.
4. Demonstrate their concepts based on aesthetic and design principles.
5. Demonstrate their design concepts through sketches and maquettes.
6. Develop an awareness of clays role in society, from a global thematic approach.
7. Demonstrate respect for themselves, fellow students, and the studio environment.
8. Course content learning outcomes will be assessed by the instructor.
    

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 115 - Pottery 2

1. Demonstrate proficiency in the use of ceramic terminology and process.
2. Demonstrate the development of their sensibilities to the forming process of art making.
3. Demonstrate the visual, tactile, and intellectual possibilities of clay.
4. Explore the historical context from which their concepts develop.
5. Demonstrate respect for themselves, fellow students, and the studio environment.
6. Course content learning outcomes will be assessed by the instructor and the student peers.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 119 - 3-Dimensional Design

1. Develop techniques of research and idea development through sketchbook project requirements.
2. Demonstrate three-dimensional processes through visual problem solving through the carving and building projects.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of creativity in the context of three-dimensional structures by creative problem-solving of the requirements in the assemblage and form over function projects.
4. Demonstrate the value of good craftsmanship through skill development and the relationship of appropriate materials to the idea by overall neatness and effective construction skills in all free-standing projects.
5. Participate in critiques and demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate art using reasoned judgment by participation in and preparedness for the projects’ critiques.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 120 - Introduction to Graphic Design

1. Practice the creative process by developing a concept map, gathering source materials, creating process thumbnail sketches and workup models, finalizing a solution and reflecting upon the process.
2. Communicate an idea and problem solve using the elements and principles of design with a particular focus on typography, color, layout concepts and visual organization.
3. Identify and use the characteristics and terminology of basic typography.
4. Demonstrate how imagery and typography in combination function as a catalyst for dynamic visual communication.
5. Create a graphic design portfolio.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 130 - Watercolor Painting

1. Mix colors using watercolor media.
2. Manipulate the paper for special effects.
3. Learn watercolor techniques: wet into wet, glazing, direct painting, transparent and opaque washes, and dry brush.
4. Incorporate drawing into a watercolor painting.
5. Demonstrate the ability to use effective compositions in their paintings.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of the dimensional qualities of light and shadow within a painting.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the dimensional qualities of light and shadow within a painting.
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 135 - Introduction to Screen Printing

1. Demonstrate the process of creation from initial design to the final product. 
2. Create design sketches and refine on the computer.
3. Translate a design onto the screen mesh for printing. 
4. Screenprint design considering form, color, and tone.
5. Practice various methods of application, color mixing, and surface preparation.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

ART 139 - Introduction to Digital Illustration

Credits: 3
Introduces students to the process of creating narrative illustrations through digital media. Focus is on creative development of a theme, storyboarding techniques, and the use of digital media for drawing and painting. 

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Establish a working productive creative process and will demonstrate this process from sketch to finished illustration through clear and efficient workflow and consistent participation.
2. Research storytelling and narrative art in order to gain an understanding of create their own compelling narrative illustrations.
3. Illustrate clear and appropriate mood to fit a narrative which specifically addresses color use and shape design.
4. Apply basic compositional principles and techniques.
5. Communicate ideas and narratives through the use of sequential images (storyboarding).
6. Develop and strengthen their design vocabulary through the critique process.
7. Demonstrate basic technical skills using the digital lab software.
Program Outcomes

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 140 - Introduction to Animation

1. Demonstrate conceptual understanding of narrative through the process of story-boarding and reflection.
2. Demonstrate understanding of the structure of stop-motion animation by creating still imagery via photography, drawing and digital stills.
3. Create animations digitally.
4. Edit movies by adding audio soundtracks and titles.
5. Work on a creative team.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 150 - Espial Journal Design and Publication

1. Practice leadership and conflict resolution skills.
2. Strengthen and reinforce the values of teamwork, communication and problem solving as a team endeavor.
3. Manage goals and a project timeline as a team.
4. Critically evaluate art and literature in terms of form, quality and suitability for use in a student journal.
5. Collaboratively establish criteria for book layout, editing and production.
6. Create cohesive content.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

ART 177 - Art Work Experience 1

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 178 - Art Work Experience 2

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 179 - Art Work Experience 3

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 180 - The Artist’s Portfolio

1. Develop the skills to create and present an art portfolio.
2. Critically evaluate technique, form and content in the artwork of a portfolio.
3. Assemble a package of materials that supports the portfolio artwork.
4. Display various techniques of documenting artwork.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 199 - Independent Study-Design

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 212 - History of Art 1

1. Discuss understand the relationship between art and society in the Prehistoric to the Gothic Periods.
2. Define the function of art, to clarify, intensify, or otherwise enlarge our experience of life in the Prehistoric to the Gothic Periods.
3. Discern styles in western art history from Prehistoric Periods to Gothic Periods.
4. Trace the centuries of change, a topical record describing how things, places and people lived as recorded in their art in the Prehistoric to Gothic Periods.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 213 - History of Art 2

1. Discuss understand the relationship between art and society in the Gothic to Romantic Periods.
2. Define the function of art, to clarify, intensify, or otherwise enlarge our experience of life in the Gothic to Romantic Periods.
3. Discern styles in western art history from the Gothic to Romantic Periods.
4. Trace the centuries of change, a topical record describing how things, places and people lived as recorded in their art in the Gothic to Romantic Periods.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 214 - History of Art 3

1. Discuss understand the relationship between art and society in the Romantic period to the present.
2. Define the function of art, to clarify, intensify, or otherwise enlarge our experience of life in the Romantic period to the present.
3. Discern styles in western art history from the Romantic period to the present.
4. Trace the centuries of change, a topical record describing how things, places and people lived as recorded in their art in the Romantic period to the present.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 219 - Advanced 3-Dimensional Design

1. Develop ideas for 3-dimensional projects through research of historical context.
2. Develop visual problem solving skills by rendering ideas with a variety of drawing media.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of orchestrating space through the concerns of placement and locations.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of creativity in the context of 3-dimensional structures.
5. Demonstrate the value of good craftsmanship through skill development and the relationship of appropriate materials to the idea.
6. Evaluate art and respond to art critique using reasoned judgment.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 240 - History of Art and Feminism

1. Identify key 20th and 21st century female-identified artists, using the 1970s North American feminist movement as a benchmark.
2. Define and utilize art historical terminology as it relates to the art produced by female-identified artists.
3. Analyze the relationship between art created by female-identified artists and the social, cultural and historical contexts, including hetero-patriarchy and Eurocentrism.
4. Identify and define various feminist theories, and practice a feminist approach to analyzing art. 
5. Explain how artistic images shape our understanding of gender roles, morality, and power with an emphasis on an intersectional approach, including attention to race, sexuality, class, and disability.
6. Demonstrate competency in research and visual analysis skills through written and oral forms of communication.
7. Develop collaboration and presentation skills.
8. Create artistic expressions (painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, performance) in response to various feminist theories.

1. Demonstrate the elements and principles of visual arts.
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 251 - Ceramics 1

1. Demonstrate their familiarity of ceramic terminology and process.
2. Complete assignments based on specific or collective narratives.
3. Take part in alternative firing processes: Raku, Horse Hair, Saggar, Salt, and/or Pit- Firing.
4. Learn how the material used to create an object may be part of its content
5. Use alternative surface treatments.
6. Demonstrate familiarity with intermediate glazing techniques.
7. Produce sketches and writings to show the development of their concepts.
    

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 252 - Ceramics 2

1. Demonstrate their familiarity with the ceramic process: from clay to ceramic.
2. Demonstrate their understanding of how to load, fire, and unload kilns.
3. Demonstrate their understanding of reduction/ oxidation kiln atmospheres and how the different atmospheres may affect their work. 
4. Demonstrate their ability to work with kiln equipment in an appropriate safe manner.
5. Demonstrate a complete understanding of the health hazards related to some ceramic materials and learn to handle, work, and dispose of them in a safe and environmentally conscious manner.
6. Learn the benefits of keeping kiln logs/charts for documentation and assessment.
7. Develop the sensibilities to work more independently- to cultivate an individual approach in clay.
    

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 253 - Ceramics 3

1. Demonstrate the different strategies of clay construction and firing.
2. Demonstrate a full integration of ideas, materials, and process.
3. Demonstrate and record anticipated results of clay construction and firing.
4. Demonstrate the ability to function independently in the ceramics studio.
5. Demonstrate a complete understanding of how the ceramic studio operates.
6. Document growth through completed drawings, maquettes, kiln firing charts, clay and glaze-test results.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 255 - Advanced Painting 1

1. Demonstrate compositional development of objects/shapes in the picture plane.
2. Create simple to involved landscape and still-life assignments. 
3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
4. Demonstrate color evaluation and its relationship to creating depth and volume.
5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

ART 256 - Advanced Painting 2

1. Demonstrate advanced compositional development.
2. Create 3-dimensional landscapes on a 2-dimensional surface using traditional perspective theories. 
3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
4. Demonstrate the use of color as a signifier.
5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

ART 257 - Advanced Painting 3

1. Demonstrate advanced compositional development.
2. Create 3-dimensional landscapes on a 2-dimensional surface using traditional perspective theories. 
3. Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
4. Demonstrate the use of color as a signifier.
5. Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
6. Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
7. Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
8. Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts. 
2. Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects. 

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

ART 275 - Independent Study-Ceramics 1

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 276 - Independent Study-Ceramics 2

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 277 - Independent Study-Ceramics 3

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 294 - Independent Study-Painting 1

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

ART 297 - Independent Study-Advanced Drawing 1

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.