Student Learning Outcomes

Discipline: Arts: Fine Arts Unit

Course Name	Course Number	Objectives
Drawing: Life-Intermediate	ARTD 17B	Students will be able to use line to create the illusion of three-dimensional form through use of cross contour and construction. Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate accurate proportion of the figure.
Introduction to the Visual Arts and Art History	ARTB 1	Students will develop an understanding of basic art terminology that coordinates with the ARTB 1 curriculum.
Anatomy for Artists	ARTD 75	Students will successfully identify and name, using appropriate terminology, the origin, insertion and function of the major muscles of the human body
Basic Studio Arts	ARTB 14	ARTB14 students will be able to produce an edition of three block prints. Students will be able to correctly Identify and define value, hue, and intensity.
Beginning Painting I	ARTD 25A	Develop paintings using dynamic compositional elements with appropriate light logic and accurate shapes. Develop paintings focusing on color theory in a painterly or Impressionistic style. Develop paintings focusing on realism with precise shapes and edges through the process of blending. Create well-organized visual compositions in a variety of styles and techniques. Recognize and discuss historical painting styles. Define well-organized visual composition and other formal principles in written and oral form.
Ceramics: Beginning I	ARTS 30A	Students will appropriately apply ceramic knowledge to writing about a ceramic artist. Students will be able to throw and trim four cups that are a minimum of 4" tall and apply handles.
Ceramics: Beginning II	ARTS 30B	Students will be able to create lids that fit a vessel or jar. Students will apply ceramic knowledge and writing skills in writing about ceramics.
Ceramics: Hand Construction	ARTS 33	Students will construct a ceramic, slab built mask inspired by historical reference. Students will be able to utilize wet clay surface treatments. Students will be able to build a coiled vessel.
Ceramics: Intermediate Studio	ARTS 31	Students will integrate hand building and throwing techniques to create a visually unified ceramic set. Students will synthesize design, craftsmanship and function to design and create two functional teapots.
Design: Color and Composition	ARTD 21	Use creative and analytic techniques and strategies in planning and executing original artworks. Make use of critical thinking (reading, writing, listening, speaking, observing and assessing) skills elemental to the problem solving of design and the visual arts. Synthesis visual content, communicative, psychological, and emotional aspects of color harmonies in design projects. Use and recognize historic and modern forms of perspective. Demonstrate the use of color in space informed by light logic. Synthesize basic color harmonies in pigment and demonstrate their relationship to RGB and CMYK pallets. Demonstrate ability to match colors. Apply the formal elements, principles of design, and forms of compositional structure in evaluative oral and written discussions, analysis, critiques and studio problems. Use art terminology in evaluative oral and written discussions, analysis, critiques and studio problems. Students will apply visual arts concepts in oral and written communication. Students will be able to identify 4 color harmonies.
Design: Three Dimensional	ARTS 22	Identify, analyze, and evaluate interrelationships between formal elements, principles of design, materials, technique, function, and cost. Use a variety of hand tools and equipment to manipulate media. Apply molding principles by creating multi-piece molds and cold cast reproductions of three-dimensional objects. Recognize, define, and apply three-dimensional design terminology in evaluative oral and written discussions, analysis and critiques. Define problems, organize information, analyze results, generate creative ideas, and synthesize complex visual, structural and practical considerations to create original solutions to three-dimensional design problems. Students will safely and successfully use a variety of required stationary power tools: Band saw, sanders, lathe. Design and produce projects using a variety of materials.
Design: Two Dimensional	ARTD 20	Use value to describe form and express light logic. Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of color to value by mixing, analyzing, and appraising monochromatic tints and shades relative to the achromatic value scale. Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of color complements by mixing, analyzing and appraising complementary tones (chromatic grays). Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of hues to the conceptual pigment color wheel by mixing, analyzing, appraising, and identifying color correct swatches for Use historic and current forms of abstraction in the visual arts. Recognize, analyze and interpret the expressive and creative qualities of art media in a work of art as it affects elementary compositional decisions. Make use of critical thinking (reading, writing, listening, speaking, observing and assessing) skills elemental to the problem solving of design and the visual arts. Differentiate preferential, factual, and judicious thinking elemental to solving problems in design and visual arts. Two-Dimensional Design students will be able to list all of the elements and principles of design by the eighth week of the semester. Students completing an assignment in Area C (Arts) courses will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression. Students will be able to identify the three basic types of balance/symmetries. Students will accurately identify three different spatial devices Identify, evaluate, discuss, and use the formal elements and principles of design and forms of compositional structure. Perceive and interpret the 3-D world through contour line drawings. Use the formal elements, principles of design, and principles of gestalt to create well-designed studio projects in achromatic value and color.
Drawing: Beginning	ARTD 15A	Create original drawings, which demonstrate the capacity to perceive, comprehend, and interpret the three-dimensional visual world using dry media in a variety of techniques, which include stipple, line, and hatching. Students will demonstrate their understanding of fundamental illusions of three dimensional forms on a two dimensional plane by locating the eye level and vanishing points in examples of perspective boxes. Discuss, analyze, and evaluate personal works of art and that of contemporary and historical artists by using appropriate art-specific terminology for content, technique, and style in both written and oral critiques. Utilize the principles of composition in objective and subjective analysis of historical and contemporary works of visual art. Utilize quick study techniques to develop extended drawings. Utilize quick study drawing skills through visual notes and personal studies as a basis for planning larger extended works of art. Utilize original and creative thinking in projects and writings. Students will successfully demonstrate the application of measuring/sighting from observation to solve creating the illusion of a three dimensional still life on two dimensional surface Synthesize the formal art elements and principles with the observed world in varying compositional formats.
Drawing: Head and Hands	ARTD 23A	Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate two-dimensionally the proportions of the figure through gesture drawing. Students will be able to use line to create the illusion of three-dimensional form through use of cross contour and construction. Students will be able to assess and communicate accurate proportions of the head.
Drawing: Intermediate	ARTD 15B	Students will be able to identify similarities and differences in colors using proper terminology.
Drawing: Intermediate Heads and Hands	ARTD 23B	Students will be able to use line to create the illusion of three-dimensional form through use of cross contour and construction. Students will be able to assess and communicate proportions of the head.
Drawing: Life	ARTD 17A	Students will be able to use line to create the illusion of three-dimensional form through use of cross contour and construction. Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate accurate proportion of the figure. Create drawings of the human body using drawing principles and techniques. Develop and use original and creative thinking in drawing the human body. Work from a general visual shorthand to more specific studies that result in finished art. Create the illusion of three-dimensional form using various media and techniques based on formal art principles. Evaluate and discuss historical and contemporary art/artists through written and oral critiques using appropriate art-specific terminology.
Drawing: Perspective	ARTD 16	Use perspective in a variety of quick freehand sketches/drawings for visual notes, extended personal studies, and as a basis for planning larger extended works of art. MO 5. Analyze objectively and subjectively historical and contemporary works of visual art for their use of linear and atmospheric perspectives to organize subject, form and compositional elements of drawing and painting. Outcome/Objective Students will be able to create drawings using techniques that demonstrate a clear understanding of atmospheric perspective. Create original drawings that interpret organic forms using perspective principles and techniques. Create original drawings using rendering techniques including lighting, shade and shadow, and texture. Create original drawings that interpret three-dimensional objects and space using perspective principles and techniques. Identify and discuss perspective techniques and drawing terminology in evaluative oral and written discussions, analysis and critiques.
Figure Drawing Special Studies	ARTD 99	Improved Skills-Students completing a Special Studio-Art Studies course will feel that they have improved their skills in the selected area of study.
Introduction to Printmaking	ARTD 43A	96% meets or exceeds expectations from an assessment of 26 printed editions by 13 students from three recent semesters. Students will learn techniques to translate original or existing imagery to the particulars of the printmaking processes. Student will acquire knowledge of printmaking terminology which coordinates with the ARTD 43A curriculum. 26 projects were evaluated over three semesters with a 96% meets or exceeds the expectations.
Letterpress Book Arts	ARTD 48A	Students will be capable of creating a stab-bound sample book with wrapped covers. Students will have a fundamental understanding of the history of letters and typography. Students will be able to compose multiple lines of letterpress type using a "type stick"
Painting: Watercolor	ARTD 27	Students will create 3 color scales applying concepts of warm -cool, value and intensity.
Printmaking: Intermediate Screenprinting	ARTD 45B	Students will demonstrate their ability to produce color separated films for a multi-color print project Student will acquire knowledge of silkscreen printmaking terminology which coordinates with the ARTD 45B curriculum. Students will create editions of multi-color screen prints
Printmaking: Introduction to Lithography I	ARTD 44A	Students will learn techniques to directly create or transfer existing original imagery to matrices used in the lithography printmaking process. Students will understand the concept of planographic printing in lithography.
Printmaking: Introduction to Monotype	ARTD 46A	Students will create reductive method monotype prints.
Printmaking: Introduction to Screenprinting	ARTD 45A	75% meets or exceeds expectations from an assessment of 16 printed editions by 8 students from one recent semester. Each student had two editions assessed. Compare and contrast fine art screen printing. Use color theory to mix custom color inks for assigned course projects. Select appropriate studio practices, technologies, methods and materials to solve specific problems arising in the creation of multiple print editions in screen printing. Devise methods of transforming tonal images to graphic delineations. Discuss, analyze, and evaluate personal printed works of art as well as historic and contemporary examples using art-specific vocabulary for content, technique, and style in written and oral critiques. Document development stages of visual ideas for course assignments in a notebook. Students will understand the use of stencils of different kinds in silkscreen printmaking. Students will learn techniques to directly create or transfer original or existing imagery to the particulars of the silkscreen printmaking process. Students will acquire knowledge of silkscreen printmaking terminology which coordinates with the ARTD 45A curriculum. Examine the role screen printing plays in contemporary visual art. Analyze contemporary and historic screen printing images as inspiration for course assignments. Analyze the social impact of repeatable multiple images of screen printing on contemporary society. Synthesize personal imagery with basic key elements of design (line, color, shape, texture, space, form).
Printmaking: Photo and Alternative Processes	ARTD 47A	Students will produce printable photo polymer plates. 65% will score a grade of 75% or better.
Sculpture Special Studies	ARTS 99	Improved Skills-Students completing a Special Studio-Art Studies course will feel that they have improved their skills in the selected area of study.
Sculpture: Intermediate	ARTS 40B	Utilize a working knowledge of a sculptural medium, and show skill in the use of hand tools and equipment used to manipulate these media in completed project.
Sculpture: Beginning	ARTS 40A	Students will be able to replicate and enlarge a form by modeling it in clay. Students will safely and successfully use a variety of required stationary power tools: Band saw, sanders, lathe.
Sculpture: Carving	ARTS 40C	Students will maintain proportional relationships while using the reductive process. Students will control form while using the reductive process to create original sculptures
Sculpture: Intermediate Life	ARTS 41B	Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate three-dimensionally the action of the figure through gestural modeling. Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate three-dimensionally the form of the figure.
Sculpture: Life	ARTS 41A	Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate three-dimensionally the action of the figure through gestural modeling. Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate three-dimensionally the form of the figure.
Sculpture: Mold Making	ARTS 42	Students will understand and are able to apply the concept of draft and undercuts in mold-making Students will be able to create uniform clay shim walls at the parting lines.
Sculpture: Special Effects Makeup	ARTS 46A	Students will be able to mold an extremity using industry standard flexible molding materials.
Sculpture: Special Effects Makeup	ARTS 46B	Students will be able to create a three dimensional character preparatory to creating a head mask of the character Student will apply modeling, molding and casting processes to create a full latex head mask.
Sculpture: Special Effects Makeup	ARTS 46A	Students will be able to cast a plaster reference copy of an extremity from flexible mold.
Specialist Studio-Art Studies	ARTZ 50	Students will appreciate the necessity of self motivation and self discipline for the practice of art. Students completing a Special Studio-Art Studies course will feel that they have improved their skills in the selected area of study.
The Sculptural Vessel	ARTS 34	Students will be able to construct a sculptural vessel with an architectural reference after researching a variety of architects' work and types of architecture. Students will use an organic reference to construct a group of 5 vessels, each under 5" that relate to each other in form and surface.

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