Art and Design (BA, Minor)

The Art and Design program is committed to an undergraduate education that gives students life-long skills as artists and designers while preparing them for public lives as active members of communities and professionals in society. Strong faculty mentorship guides students through the conceptualization, production, and critique of their creative works. Beginning with essential foundational coursework, students progress into a series of upper division courses that support the development of a professional portfolio and the production of a Thesis Exhibition in Dominican’s Barbara D Goodman Gallery. Students also utilize the arts-rich resources of the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in local arts communities and forums.

The Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art and Design degree places students in the center of the creative process to solve problems, communicate ideas, and enhance the human experience. In a liberal arts setting the Art and Design major engages with interdisciplinary studies and acquires important civic professional skills that encourage students to approach creative challenges with broad critical thinking and a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual influences. .

Program Learning Outcomes (BA, Minor)

Upon graduation the student will:

Create works of art that demonstrate sufficient technical skills, perceptual development, and understanding of principles of visual organization to achieve basic visual communication and expression in one or more media.
Make workable connections between concept and media in order to devise a methodology to create original artwork.
Identify works and intentions of artists and art movements of the past and the present from a diversity of global contexts.
Describe their creative work in relationship to contemporary thinking in art and design.
Formulate and create a body of work that is based on an original concept and demonstrates a developed technical ability and visual acuity.