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Ken Scaglia<\/strong>, Chair<\/strong><\/em>
\nscagliak@wcsu.edu<\/a>
\nVPA 150D,\u00a0Westside campus
\n(203) 837-3975
\n(203) 837-8031 (fax)<\/p>\n

Victoria Hunter,<\/strong> Department Secretary<\/strong><\/em>
\nhunterv@wcsu.edu<\/a>
\nVPA 143, Westside campus
\n(203) 837-8404
\n(203) 837-8912 (fax)<\/p>\n

Lori Robeau<\/strong>, Visual Art Assistant<\/strong><\/em>
\nrobeaul@wcsu.edu<\/a>
\nVPA 143E,\u00a0Westside campus
\n(203) 837-8403
\n(203) 837-8031 (fax)<\/p>\n


\nFaculty<\/span><\/p>\n

K. Scaglia, Chair, Foundation<\/em><\/strong>
\nD. Cardonsky,\u00a0MFA Coordinator, MFA
\n<\/em>S. Marques, Studio Art, MFA<\/em>
\nD. Skora, Graphic Design
\n<\/em>J. Tom, Illustration, MFA
\n<\/em>C. Vanaria,\u00a0Photography
\n<\/em>T. Wells, Graphic Design<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n


\nAdjunct Faculty<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

R. Ames, Foundations, Digital Photography<\/em>
\nD. Boyajian, Foundations<\/em>
\nR. Brewster, MFA<\/em>
\nP. Carabell, Art History<\/em>
\nL. Cober-Gentry, Illustration, MFA<\/em>
\nB. Dunbar, Photography
\n<\/em>D. Flook, Foundations<\/em>
\nS. Kolbig, Foundations<\/em>
\nJ. Lanzrein, Ceramics<\/em>
\nT. Laslo, Graphic Design, Digital Technology<\/em>
\nC. McGuire, Painting\/Foundations<\/em>
\nJ. Mueller, Art History<\/em>
\nR. Nadeau, MFA
\n<\/em>F. Patnaude, Foundations<\/em>
\nA. Scoon, MFA\u00a0<\/em>
\nE. Shapiro, Photography
\n<\/em>J. Sullivan, Gallery Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

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Overview<\/span><\/p>\n

The Art major at WCSU provides challenging visual arts training within the context of a liberal arts education. This approach infuses in our students a broad, diverse range of knowledge and experience along with the ability to think critically and analytically. Our highly accomplished and diverse faculty create engaging and challenging learning environments for our students.<\/p>\n

Department of Art faculty are professional art practitioners and nationally exhibiting artists. Their unique backgrounds and experiences create engaging and challenging learning environments for our students.<\/p>\n

Our curriculum incorporates comprehensive instruction integrated with the development, encouragement and increased awareness of the creative process. This ensures that our Visual Art majors become proficient creative problem solvers capable of freely expressing themselves.<\/p>\n

The Gallery at The School of Visual & Performing Arts serves as a venue for a broad range of professional and student exhibitions, while the Visiting Artist Lecture Series features an impressive array of practitioners. Bus trips provide our students the opportunity to visit galleries and museums each semester in the surrounding area, including Manhattan.<\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>Mission<\/span><\/p>\n

Western Connecticut State University\u2019s visual arts curriculum incorporates a structure consistent with C.A.A. guidelines, based on classic design principles inspired by the Bauhaus and the exploration of traditional and emerging media. The areas of concentration are Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography and Studio Arts: Painting. All areas of emphasis share a common two-year foundation program leading into the technical specializations of the final two years. This foundation program is of critical significance as it instills in each student a comprehensive background in aesthetic form, structure and dynamics. Additionally, our students have the opportunity to participate in professional internships and the annual Senior Portfolio Exhibition.<\/p>\n

The liberal arts component is vital; it promotes and develops a set of skills that are of fundamental importance to any citizen and critical for the successful artist or designer. These include the ability to think critically, the development and refinement of verbal and written skills, and the acquisition of a diverse and extensive visual vocabulary and knowledge base.<\/p>\n

This combination of professional artistic training and acquired liberal arts skills enables visual artists to successfully develop, create and articulate their creative visual dialogues.<\/p>\n

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Learning Outcomes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All students pursuing the Bachelor of Arts in Art degree at WCSU will demonstrate the following upon graduation:<\/p>\n

In General Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The ability to think, speak, and write clearly and effectively, and to communicate with precision, cogency, and rhetorical force.<\/li>\n
  2. An informed acquaintance with the mathematical and experimental methods of the physical and biological sciences, and with the main forms of analysis the historical and quantitative techniques needed for investigating the workings and developments of modern society.<\/li>\n
  3. An ability to address culture and history from a variety of perspectives.<\/li>\n
  4. Understanding of, and experience in thinking about, moral and ethical problems.<\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0The ability to respect, understand, and evaluate work in a variety of disciplines.<\/li>\n
  6. The capacity to explain and defend views effectively and rationally.<\/li>\n
  7. Understanding of and experience in one or more art forms other than the visual arts and design.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/a>General Education for new students starting Fall 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

    All degrees require the completion of the university’s general education curriculum.\u00a0 For a complete description follow this link here.<\/a><\/p>\n

    Studies in the Visual Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Acquisition of a comprehensive set of technical, creative, and conceptual skills, along with an ability to make connections between them. Students will have an understanding of scale, perspective, tone, color, line, form, light, texture, pattern, balance, and tension.<\/li>\n
    2. Development and creation of a significant body of work along with the ability to understand and evaluate works of art.<\/li>\n
    3. Capacity to be conversant with the historical record of art history and the works and philosophies of major artists\/designers, and the ability to summarize contemporary thinking on art and design.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Graduating majors participate in the annual Portfolio Exhibition, which serves as the capstone event, showcasing their acquired skill sets.<\/p>\n

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      Core Portfolio Assessment Process<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

      The Portfolio Assessment Process is implemented at the start of each spring semester to assure that art majors have attained an appropriate level of proficiency for their area of concentration and to ensure that the level of standards established by the Department of Art is maintained. The assessment process is faculty-monitored for all 2nd-semester sophomores prior to the fall course registration period. Faculty may confer regarding the student’s ability to proceed to the junior level courses for each concentration. An assessment matrix is used to monitor students’ progress in these categories: quality of concept, compositional skills, problem-solving ability, quality of craft, and quality of presentation. An individual assessment option by faculty will be implemented if warranted by the failure of the student to meet the criteria of the matrix. Students identified by faculty who fail to meet the assessment criteria must meet with the coordinator of their chosen area of concentration to develop a remedial solution.<\/p>\n

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      Transfer Course Credits<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

      All students wishing to transfer into the Art program at Western must meet the criteria listed for the program, including those currently attending institutions holding articulation agreements with Western.<\/p>\n

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      Transfer Review Process and Transfer Articulation Policy (TAP)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

      Western Connecticut State University, as part of the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities (CSCU), accepts credits for non-art courses as per the Transfer Articulation Policy for students with an earned Associates Degree. Information regarding this specific classification of transfer credits can be found at the CSCU<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

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      Advanced Placement (AP) Credit<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

      AP credits for Art courses are accepted by the Department of Art.<\/p>\n

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      Awarding of Credit<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

      Credit Hour: A semester hour of credit is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. One hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a\u00a0minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work each week for approximately 15 weeks;<\/li>\n
      2. or the equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time;<\/li>\n
      3. or at least an equivalent amount of work as required in paragraph 1 of this definition for other academic activities as established by\u00a0the institution including laboratory work, internships, practica,\u00a0studio work, and other academic work leading to the award of credit hours.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        <\/a>
        \nDegree Programs in Art<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

        BA in Visual Arts<\/strong>
        \nOptions:
        \n        Graphic Design<\/a>
        \n        Illustration<\/a>
        \n        Painting<\/a>
        \n        Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

        Minor Programs<\/strong>
        \n        Art<\/a>
        \n        Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

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        <\/a>BA\u00a0Art: Graphic Design Option<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

        Description<\/span><\/b>: Western Connecticut State University\u2019s visual arts curriculum incorporates a structure consistent with C.A.A. guidelines, based on classic design principles inspired by the Bauhaus and through exploration of traditional and emerging media. The areas of concentration are Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography and Studio Arts-Painting. Each option\u2019s objective is to develop technical knowledge and expertise appropriate to each medium.\u00a0All areas of emphasis share a common two-year foundation program leading into the technical specializations of the final two years. This foundation program is of critical significance as it instills in each student a comprehensive background in aesthetic form, structure and dynamics. Additionally, our students have the opportunity to participate in professional internships and the annual Senior Portfolio Exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n

        The Graphic Design option is a comprehensive program that serves to foster growth in an intuitive, conceptual approach to visual communication problem solving. Our students learn that graphic design is not technology, but is, and always has been, the convergence of art, business, and technology to produce meaningful, successful visual communication.<\/p>\n

        After freshman and sophomore foundation courses, Graphic Design students embark on a two-year experience in specific concentration courses. The curriculum includes typography and creative problem solving, along with the application of both traditional and digital processes and techniques. Juniors and seniors participate in a rigorous program through direct engagement. The process of design encompasses:<\/p>\n