By the end of the Foundation Year, student learning outcomes will demonstrate that students have acquired and understand the following:

• Fundamental Skills
  Mindful making and improving of work by manipulation of art & design media.
• Thinking Skills
  The ability to distinguish between rational, intuitive, and critical thinking processes.
• Visual Quality
  The ability to identify visual strengths and weaknesses to promote aesthetic resolution and clarity of intention.
• Professionalism
  Strategies for success such as attentiveness, time-management skills, and the ability to commit to a personal vision in the endeavor of art making.
• Inventiveness
  Using problem-defining processes to complement problem-solving skills.
• Spirit of Investigation
  Visual and idea oriented research, the spirit of play, and delay of closure.
• Community as Resource
  Accessing the larger metropolitan community as a creative and learning resource.
• Preparation
  Identifying technical and conceptual needs of the art and design departments and integrating them into the Foundation curriculum.
  

Complete Foundation Department Mission and Goals