Art & Design Student Learning Goals

Program Learning Goals

All students majoring in Art & Design, regardless of concentration, will demonstrate 
•    A developed visual sensitivity.
•    The technical skills, perceptual development, and understanding of principles of visual organization sufficient to achieve basic visual communication and expression.
•    A developing artistic voice, demonstrating the creation of original work, a command of compositional techniques, and a range of knowledge, technique, and craft.

Students majoring in the concentration in Art will also demonstrate 
•    Some familiarity with the works and intentions of major artists/designers and movements of the past and the present, both in the Western and non-Western worlds.

Students majoring in the concentration in Graphic Design will also demonstrate 
•    Intent, design, and execution in building visual communication materials from goals and images to finished product.

Students majoring in the concentration in Web Design will also demonstrate 
•    Intent, design, and execution in building a website from goals and images to finished product.