Program Learning Outcomes
Mission Statement
Integrated Studies (INT) is dedicated to cultivating creative thinkers who use their hands and minds to gain critical tools, technical skills, and the conceptual framework for art and design. INT provides students with a robust foundational program in visual language that emphasizes cross-disciplinary coursework with the essential skills necessary to succeed in their degree-granting department and their careers.
Essential Skills and Competencies
- Students develop a visual vocabulary, core design principles, and the requisite skills necessary across the College-wide curriculum.
Critical Thinking and Creative Process
- Students use, imagine, and articulate research, conceptualization, and problem-solving strategies necessary to the creative process.
Cultural Literacy and Contextual Reference
- Students develop awareness of the context of their creative production and its reception.
Interdisciplinary Experience
- Students learn and work across disciplines with a variety of media, technologies, and research topics that include opportunities for interdisciplinary coursework.
Quality of Execution and Professional Practices
- Students work across a range of disciplines to develop excellence in execution and articulation of craft while developing presentation skills and professional practices.
Professional Ethics
- Students learn professional ethics as part of art practice and design production, in terms of affecting personal / academic integrity, community, environment, sustainability, and social awareness (equity, inclusion, and diversity).