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Graduates of a Fine Arts program will achieve the following:

  1. Students will develop a personal aesthetic that will be demonstrated in the characteristics of their artwork, writings, and speech.
  2. Students will demonstrate a mastery of visual thinking and the technical demands and craft appropriate to their discipline and artwork.
  3. Students will be able to describe historic and contemporary art directions, movements, and theory and place their own artwork in a contemporary context.
  4. Students will write and speak effectively about their artwork and ideas.
  5. Students will do research and construct their own aesthetic problems utilizing creative process strategies and critical thinking to provide multiple solutions to the problems.
  6. Students will exhibit an openness to different or new ideas and a willingness to examine and reconsider familiar ways of thinking.
  7. Students will be able to critique their own and others art work in a theoretically and historically informed manner.
  8. Students will apply ideas and methods of thinking from a range of disciplines to problems in their artwork and their lives.
  9. Students will be able to engage with diverse communities through personal and creative activities.
  10. 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, Drawing and Illustration, Integrative Studio Practice, Painting, Furniture Design, Printmaking, Sculpture, Photography