Student Learning Outcomes

• Differentiate preferential, factual, and judicious thinking elemental to solving problems in design and visual arts.
• Make use of critical thinking (reading, writing, listening, speaking, observing and assessing) skills elemental to the problem solving of design and 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.
• Use historic and current forms of abstraction in the visual arts.
• Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of hues to the conceptual pigment color wheel by mixing, analyzing, appraising, and identifying color correct swatches for
• Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of color complements by mixing, analyzing and appraising complementary tones (chromatic grays).
• Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of color to value by mixing, analyzing, and appraising monochromatic tints and shades relative to the achromatic value scale.
• Use value to describe form and express light logic.
• Use the formal elements, principles of design, and principles of gestalt to create well-designed studio projects in achromatic value and color.
• Perceive and interpret the 3-D world through contour line drawings.
• Identify, evaluate, discuss, and use the formal elements and principles of design and forms of compositional structure.
• Students will accurately identify three different spatial devices
• Students will be able to identify the three basic types of balance/symmetries.
• Students completing an assignment in Area C (Arts) courses will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression.
• Two-Dimensional Design students will be able to list all of the elements and principles of design by the eighth week of the semester.