This course focuses on specific learning goals that contribute to your overall learning at Pacific University. Goals for courses and programs are formulated, not only to help you succeed in a specific discipline, but also to help you be a productive member of society regardless of your program of study. Art program outcomes were formulated with transferability in mind – we believe that the skills and behaviors we’ve laid out will be useful no matter what career path you choose. The ability to think creatively, produce a realistic plan, carry that plan through to completion, and learn from the process are desirable attributes in every field.
The links in the list below will take you to a detailed explanation of each outcome. For the DVD assignments, scan through the lists and choose the ones that seem most appropriate to the movie you watched. Choose different lists for each movie so you have a chance to review them all by the end of the semester.
Role of the course for the general student population:
- Introduces the role of design and designers in our society
- Provides a basis for making informed decisions about sustainable lifestyle practices and community development
- Provides opportunity to develop communication and team working skills
- Provides opportunity to interact with real-world problems in service to the common good
- Provides an opportunity to interact with the community
- Completes the Civic Engagement core requirement
Role of the course in fulfilling the Civic Engagement requirement
- Serve the common good
- Involve students in experiential learning outside the classroom and the teaching lab
- Engage students with the campus community or the broader world
- Offer appropriate orientation, preparation for the project, and opportunity for thoughtful reflection
- Provide opportunity to share the results of the project with the campus community through appropriate means devised in consultation with the Center for Civic Engagement
Role of the course for students interested in Design and Sustainability
- Introduces permaculture as an example of an ecologically-based design framework
- Explores Design activity in relation to individual and cultural values and ethics
- Explores Design activity in relation to the concept of sustainability
- Completes the first half of the permaculture design certification
- Fulfills the Sustainability core requirement
Role of the course for students in the Art program:
- Introduces the design method, vocabulary, and concepts
- Introduces the design method as an integrative problem-solving process
- Introduces project management skills
- Develops capacity for describing and justifying context in relation to concept
- Offers opportunities to explore and develop hand skills with a varietdey of materials
- Introduces the e-portfolio and documentation of work
College of Arts and Sciences: Outcomes for all majors
Breadth of Knowledge and Integration of Learning
- Demonstrate synthesis and advanced accomplishment in a discipline using appropriate modes of inquiry.
- Take appropriate steps toward a productive and meaningful professional life and life-long learning.
Intellectual and Practical Skills
- Communicate effectively the results of focused inquiry within the discipline using multiple modes of communication appropriate to the discipline.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the application of the skills, technologies, methods, and evaluative criteria of the discipline.
- Collaborate effectively with others in a manner appropriate to the discipline.
Personal and Social Responsibility
- Engage responsibly in the practice of the discipline in accordance with its professional standards
College of Arts and Sciences: Core Outcomes
This course fulfills the “Creative Process and Artistic Practice,” “Civic Engagement,” and “Sustainability” core requirements.
Creative Process and Artistic Practice Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
- Convey meaning through the presentation of their own artistic work.
- Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
- Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
Civic Engagement Outcomes
Upon completion of this requirement students will be able to:
- Connect and extend knowledge (facts, theories, etc.) from one’s own academic study to civic engagement and to one’s own participation in civic life, politics, and government.
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively express, listen, and adapt to others and communicate ideas in a civil manner when establishing and/or maintaining relationships to further civic action.
- Demonstrate attitudes in line with the democratic aspirations of equality, liberty, and justice, and democratic practices of social responsibility and inclusion of diverse perspectives in civic processes and community life.
- Plan, carry out, and critically reflect upon civic action to address a public problem in a manner that demonstrates personal integrity and ethical conduct.
Sustainability Outcomes:
Upon completion of this requirement students will be able to:
- Evaluate sustainability issues and solutions using an approach that focuses on the intersections between complex human and natural systems.
- Describe the three aspects of sustainability (environmental, economic and social) and give examples of how at least two of the three are interrelated.
- Articulate how sustainability relates to their lives as community members, workers and individuals and how their actions impact sustainability.
Art Program Outcomes
Outcome 1: The Creative Process
Students will be able to use a variety of brainstorming techniques to generate novel ideas of value to solve problems
Outcome 2: Development of Context and Concept
Students will be able to develop ideas that are relevant and responsive to the world around them.
Outcome 3: Development of Skill and Technique
Students will have sufficient mastery of one or more media to complete the technical and formal challenges pertinent to a body of original work.
Outcome 4: Communication of Ideas and Context
Students will be able to clearly communicate the content, context, and process of their work visually, orally and in writing.
Outcome 5: Development of Deliberate Practice
Students will demonstrate behaviors, such as curiosity, initiative, and persistence, that will help them engage with the world in productive ways. Students will be able to work independently or collaboratively to achieve stated goals
See more detail on art program outcomes
Outcomes for Design Foundations courses
This course fulfills the Design Foundations requirement for the Design Track of the Art major. Upon completion of this requirement students will be able to:
- Produce a proposal for a project that includes a rationale, concept, timeline, and budget
- Describe relationships between the elements in a design according to principles specific to a particular design framework
- Demonstrate knowledge of vocabulary and relevant design concepts through participation in group reviews, in-class dialogues and written assignments
Outcomes for Civic Engagement courses
This course fulfills the Civic Engagement (CE) core requirement. Upon completion of this requirement students will be able to:
- connect and extend knowledge (facts, theories, etc.) from one’s own academic study to civic engagement and to one’s own participation in civic life, politics, and government.
- demonstrate the ability to effectively express, listen, and adapt to others and communicate ideas in a civil manner
- demonstrate attitudes in line with democratic aspirations (e.g., equality, liberty, and justice) and practices (e.g., social responsibility and inclusion of diverse perspectives in civic processes and community life)
- prepare for, carry out, and critically reflect upon civic action to address a public problem in a manner that demonstrates personal integrity and ethical conduct.
Outcomes for Sustainability courses
This course fulfills the Sustainability core requirement. Upon completion of this requirement students will be able to:
- Evaluate sustainability issues and solutions using a transdisciplinary approach that focuses on the intersections between complex human and natural systems
- Describe the environmental integrity, economic vitality and social equity aspects of sustainability and give examples of how they are interrelated.
- Articulate how sustainability relates to their lives as community members, workers and individuals and how their actions impact sustainability.
See more detail on learning outcomes for the Sustainable Design concentration of the PCS major
Outcomes for the Permaculture Design Certificate
This course partially fulfills the requirements for the Permaculture Design Certificate. (to complete the certificate, take ARTST 307 Leadership through Design) At the end of this course, students will be able to::
- Provide a concise definition for the term “Permaculture”
- Describe permaculture ethics, discuss why they are relevant, and give examples of how they can influence design decisions
- Describe how permaculture principles reflect ecological patterns
- Refer to principles while describing relationships between elements in their own designs
- Read landscapes and describe how that information applies to their own designs
- Select and justify appropriate design elements in relation to local context and desired outcomes in their own designs
- Apply permaculture principles to land and community development in small and large-scale designs
- Describer a “domain” for permaculture practice that is specifically relevant to individual interests