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Assessment

Mount St. Mary’s College has a culture of assessment.  This means

  • Community members share a common commitment to improving student learning and a common language to guide this work
  • Students know at the outset what their expected learning outcomes are for the course, the major or program, and the general studies curriculum.
  • Faculty and staff continually assess the nature and extent of student learning.
  • Lessons about student learning inform curricular, pedagogical, and administrative decisions.
  • The goal of assessment efforts at MSMC is to improve teaching and learning.
  • The overall results of student performance will be available to students, faculty, staff and other interested parties on College webpages

Goal

Outcome

Drawing and Painting

  1. Use still life format to produce compositions

  2. Demonstrate skill and ability at chiaroscuro (light logic)

  3. Experience with a range of forms representational, abstract and non-objective

Design

  1. Have experience with elements and principles of design in creative work.

  2. Knowledge of elements and principals (visual language) in analyzing the visual world

Art History

  1. Working knowledge of art history, especially contemporary art

3D Design/Sculpture and Graphics

  1. Ability to use additive and subtractive processes in 3-D form (Fine Arts Majors Only)

  2. Produce graphics that are production-ready (do not need any printer changes) (Graphics Majors Only)

Senior Portfolio

  1. Produce a mature (young professional), sequential/ conceptually, coherent body of work

  2. Write a coherent thesis about ones own work.