Student Learning Outcomes for the Dual MA (in Critical Studies) + MFA (in Printmaking)
Master Advanced Inquiry: Go beyond surface-level analysis. You will cultivate deep research skills and specialized expertise, culminating in a thesis project that contributes original thought to the field. Your work will engage the global, historical, and multicultural contexts of culture, applying evidence-based methods alongside creative risk-taking to devise complex solutions. (PNCA CLO 1, 3)
Communicate with Impact: Learning to think is only half the battle—you must also be heard. You will refine your ability to convey complex theoretical concepts across multiple platforms, from traditional writing and public speaking to visual and digital media. Your work will demonstrate cultural inclusion and a clear understanding of form and audience, ensuring your ideas resonate with diverse stakeholders. (PNCA CLO 2, 4)
Connect Theory to Culture: Theory isn't abstract—it's a tool for understanding the world. You will learn to apply critical frameworks to contemporary social, civic, and global issues, using your research to challenge assumptions and advocate for equity. As a critical thinker and informed global citizen, you will evaluate information ethically and recognize how media shapes both personal practice and public discourse. (PNCA CLO 3, 4, 6)
Build a Resilient Professional Practice: Prepare for a sustainable career in the arts, academia, or cultural sectors. You will develop collaborative skills, ethical grounding, and professional adaptability necessary to navigate the modern creative economy. Through an understanding of professional practice and diverse employment models, you will build the foundation for a resilient and meaningful career. (PNCA CLO 1, 7)
Printmaking MFA students will demonstrate expertise in printmaking through knowledge of the global, historical, and multi-cultural contexts, through industry-standard technical making skills, and through the use of methods and materials necessary to maintain a professional practice in printmaking. (PNCA CLO 1, 2)
Printmaking students will analyze their own creative work and that of others, formulate lines of critical inquiry, apply an equitable world-view and multiple ways of knowing to devise complex solutions using evidence and creative risk-taking. (PNCA CLO 3)
Printmaking students will comprehend contemporary global social, civic and community issues, connect these issues to their professional practice, and demonstrate personal and professional skills to take meaningful action as a global citizen. (PNCA CLO 4)
Identify and pursue their professional goals, represent themselves and their artwork well and accurately to diverse audiences, and create and maintain a robust network of people within and without the artistic fields that will support their practice and, in turn, they can support. (PNCA CLO 7)
Student Learning Outcomes for the Dual MA (in Visual Studies) + MFA (in Critical Studies)
Master Advanced Inquiry: Go beyond surface-level analysis. You will cultivate deep research skills and specialized expertise, culminating in a thesis project that contributes original thought to the field. Your work will engage the global, historical, and multicultural contexts of culture, applying evidence-based methods alongside creative risk-taking to devise complex solutions. (PNCA CLO 1, 3)
Communicate with Impact: Learning to think is only half the battle—you must also be heard. You will refine your ability to convey complex theoretical concepts across multiple platforms, from traditional writing and public speaking to visual and digital media. Your work will demonstrate cultural inclusion and a clear understanding of form and audience, ensuring your ideas resonate with diverse stakeholders. (PNCA CLO 2, 4)
Connect Theory to Culture: Theory isn't abstract—it's a tool for understanding the world. You will learn to apply critical frameworks to contemporary social, civic, and global issues, using your research to challenge assumptions and advocate for equity. As a critical thinker and informed global citizen, you will evaluate information ethically and recognize how media shapes both personal practice and public discourse. (PNCA CLO 3, 4, 6)
Build a Resilient Professional Practice: Prepare for a sustainable career in the arts, academia, or cultural sectors. You will develop collaborative skills, ethical grounding, and professional adaptability necessary to navigate the modern creative economy. Through an understanding of professional practice and diverse employment models, you will build the foundation for a resilient and meaningful career. (PNCA CLO 1, 7)
Demonstrate expertise in their field through a self-directed creative practice focused on ideas, materials, and a process of making that is responsive to a global, historic, multi-cultural context. (PNCA CLO 1)
Identify paradigms and evaluate levels of meaning within contemporary art. Situate their creative practice in a way that considers the intended audience and ethical implications of their chosen media and strategies of communication. (PNCA CLO 2, 3, 4)
Expand their understanding of art and culture in local, regional, and global contexts through a data-based analysis of professional trends. (PNCA CLO 5,6,7)
Articulate aesthetic inclinations within clearly delineated historical, political, cultural, and power relations. (6)
Develop a sustained model for professional-level research, production, promotion, communication, and writing skills to support a resilient career. (PNCA CLO 7)