College of Visual and Performing Arts - Learning Outcomes
Undergraduate Programs:
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Animated Arts (BFA)
- Engage the elements and principles of the animated arts.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the tools and techniques used to create artworks in the animation industry.
- Develop knowledge of the history and critical theory of animation and digital art.
- Execute the stages of the animation production process in professional-level work.
- Engage the elements and principles of the animated arts.
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Art (BFA)
- Demonstrate competency with the elements and principles of visual art.
- Develop knowledge of art history.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency in the production of art.
- Create a professional presentation of artwork.
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Art Education (BS)
- Investigate purposes and practices of art education.
- Apply art processes and practices to make works of art.
- Apply and analyze diverse critical methodologies to the analysis of cultural artifacts.
- Demonstrate dispositions of a professional practitioner.
- Design a curriculum with strategies to deliver instruction and assess learning.
- Deliver art instruction that reflexively assesses teaching and learning.
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Art Education/Alternative Settings (BS)
- Investigate purposes and practices of art education.
- Apply art processes and practices to make works of art.
- Interpret and analyze works of art as they relate to historical and contemporary contexts.
- Demonstrate dispositions of a professional practitioner.
- Design a curriculum with strategies to deliver instruction and assess learning.
- Deliver art instruction that reflexively assesses teaching and learning.
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Art History (BA)
- Critically evaluate cultural artifacts according to the principles of Formal Analysis.
- Employ the language of Art History to communicate effectively.
- Apply diverse critical methodologies to the analysis of cultural artifacts.
- Execute a professional-quality art historical research project.
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Communication Design (BFA)
- Solve communication problems through research and development.
- Describe and respond to the audiences and contexts that shape design decisions.
- Create and develop visual form in response to communication problems.
- Apply tools and technology through the creation, reproduction, and distribution of visual messages.
- Employ professionalism and best business practices through presentation.
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Communication Studies (BA)
- Deliver formal and informal oral presentations within varied contexts.
- Compose written communication appropriate to specific contexts.
- Apply communication concepts to the praxis of communication.
- Create research projects guided by communication theory.
- Analyze communication norms through diverse points of view.
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Cinema, Media, and Television Production (BS)
- CTM students should understand current business practices and their development in the Cinema, Television and Media Production industry.
- CTM students should be able to write quality content that could be produced for various media platforms.
- CTM students should be able to produce a completed work for exhibition and distribution.
- CTM Students should demonstrate proficiency in CTM technical processes
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Music (BA)
- Perform with competence as soloist and ensemble members.
- Identify, define, and engage the elements of music in sound and notation.
- Describe current practices and historical trends in music.
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MUSIC: COMMERCIAL (BA)
- Perform with competence as soloist and ensemble members.
- Identify, define, and engage the elements of music in sound and notation.
- Describe current practices and historical trends in music.
- Demonstrate technology-based skills used in the music industry.
- Describe the management and operating systems of the music industry.
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Music: Music Business (BA)
- Perform with basic competence as soloist and/or ensemble member.
- Identify, define and engage the elements of music in sound and/or notation.
- Describe current practices and historical trends in music.
- Demonstrate technology-based skills used in the music industry.
- Describe management and operating systems of the music industry.
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Music: Performance (BA)
- Perform with competence as soloist and ensemble members, and self-assess performance for continued improvement.
- Identify, define, and engage the elements of music in sound and notation.
- Describe current practices and historical trends in music.
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Music Education (BS)
- Perform with competence as soloist and ensemble members.
- Identify, define, and engage the elements of music in sound and notation.
- Describe current practices and historical trends in music.
- Demonstrate current pedagogical practices.
- Conduct musical groups with attention to artistic concerns.
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Social Media Theory and Strategy (BS)
- Analyze appropriate social media use for different communication goals and contexts.
- Design and create effective social media strategies, campaigns, and content for a variety of media platforms.
- Analyze and interpret patterns and trends in social media data for decision-making and problem-solving applications.
- Apply theoretical and ethical approaches in analyzing social media content and structures.
Graduate Programs:
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Arts Administration (MA)
- Explain the administrative complexities of arts organizations in public, private, and non-profit sectors.
- Analyze financial management and effective fundraising practices of arts organizations.
- Assess the civic engagement and impact of arts organizations on communities.
- Evaluate and apply research methodologies.
- Analyze the ethical and legal responsibilities governing and impacting arts organizations.
- Develop a personal philosophy based on historical, theoretical, and cultural influences in the arts.
- Explain the administrative complexities of arts organizations in public, private, and non-profit sectors.
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Art Education (M.Ed.)
- Analyze historical, theoretical, and philosophical issues in art education.
- Develop a philosophical, historical, theoretical, and culturally competent understanding of art education.
- Evaluate and apply research methods and methodologies.
- Demonstrate knowledge of curriculum and pedagogical practices.
- Identify how research informs advocacy, policy and one's artistic and pedagogical practices.
- Analyze historical, theoretical, and philosophical issues in art education.
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Communication Design (MFA)
- Solve communication challenges by identifying the issues, targeting audience, researching, and/or developing innovative solutions.
- Create and develop visual solutions in response to communication challenges.
- Determine audience objectives based on a spectrum of human factors; test audience response; and/or assess the outcomes.
- Apply the contexts of past, current, and future design.
- Communicate with other creative professionals through research-based, cohesive, and persuasive rhetoric.
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Music Education (M.Ed.)
- Articulate, reflect upon and implement knowledge of historical and contemporary trends in the development of music education.
- Articulate current developments and changes in the field of Music Education.
- Apply research and data-gathering tools to assess teaching and learning.
- Analyze musical compositions in the context of historical periods or current trend.