Undergraduate Programs
Student Learning Outcomes
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
Graduates of a Fine Arts* program will achieve the following:
- Students will develop a personal aesthetic that will be demonstrated in the characteristics of their artwork, writings, and speech.
- Students will demonstrate a mastery of visual thinking and the technical demands and craft appropriate to their discipline and artwork.
- Students will be able to describe historic and contemporary art directions, movements, and theory and place their own artwork in a contemporary context.
- Students will write and speak effectively about their artwork and ideas.
- Students will do research and construct their own aesthetic problems utilizing creative process strategies and critical thinking to provide multiple solutions to the problems.
- Students will exhibit an openness to different or new ideas and a willingness to examine and reconsider familiar ways of thinking.
- Students will be able to critique their own and others’ art work in a theoretically and historically informed manner.
- Students will apply ideas and methods of thinking from a range of disciplines to problems in their artwork and their lives.
- Students will be able to engage with diverse communities through personal and creative activities.
- Students will apply their knowledge of art in a professional context, and will utilize the best practices and ethics held by their profession.
*Includes Ceramics, General Fine Arts, Painting, Furniture Design, Printmaking, Sculpture, Photography