Lassen Community College Approved Course Student Learning Outcomes
Course
Course Title
Art 1A
Fundamentals of 2-Dimensional
Design
Art 1B
Fundamentals of 3-Dimensional
Design
Art 2
Drawing
Course Student Learning Outcomes
1. Solve basic problems of visual expression, using formal
2-dimensional design principles and the six-step design
process
2. Describe 2-dimension design productions, using
appropriate terminology.
3. Demonstrate basic knowledge of 2-dimensional design
(past and present) used in European and Asian societies.
1. Solve basic problems of visual expression, using formal
3-dimensional design principles to
2. Describe 3-dimension design productions, using
appropriate terminology to.
3. Demonstrate basic knowledge of 3-dimensional design
used in past and non-European societies.
First Enrollment:
1. Produce basic realistic drawings of various subjects,
using basic right brain perceptual skills.
2. Produce non-realistic drawings, using alternate styles
(non-realism, non-European societies).
Second Enrollment:
1. Produce more sophisticated realistic drawings of various
subjects, using right brain perceptual skills.
2. Produce drawings of various subjects in various styles,
using various drawing media.
3. Describe drawings using appropriate terminology.
Third Enrollment:
1. Produce drawings that demonstrate the beginnings of
personal style, using preferred techniques, styles and
media.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of drawings of past and nonEuropean societies and how they relate to the beginning
personal style.
Approval
Date
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12, 2008
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15, 2011
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3. Prepare drawings for exhibition using presentation
techniques.
Beginning Life Drawing
1. Produce drawings of the human figure, nude and
clothed, from live models.
2. Demonstrate understand of the importance of the
human figure as a stand-alone subject.
3. Achieve a likeness and convincing illusion of the
human body in various poses and environments.
Beginning Photography
1. Use basic composition and exposure principles to
capture images of various subject matter on film and
correctly process the film.
2. Use basic darkroom techniques to produce technically
presentable prints.
Intermediate Photography
1. Use exposure techniques to creatively use depth of
field and shutter speed in capturing images with black
and white and color film.
2. Use darkroom techniques such as variable contrast
printing, burning, dodging and toning to produce prints
of a selection of subjects.
3. Use various mounting techniques to prepare prints for
presentation in critiques.
Advanced Photography
1. Use alternative products such as infrared film.
2. Use exposure techniques to begin to develop a
personal photographic aesthetic by capturing series of
images and images with a theme.
3. Use darkroom techniques such as split printing and
split toning to enhance expressiveness of images
captured on film and use appropriate terminology in
discussing the images.
Portfolio Photography
1. Produce a portfolio of at least twelve prints suitable
for presentation.
2. Discuss and/or write using appropriate terminology
during the presentation of the portfolio for a job
interview or further education.
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12, 2008
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Survey of Art History, Prehistoric
1. Use appropriate terminology in comparing and
to Renaissance
contrasting works of art of the various historical
periods, styles, and cultures.
2. Describe how works of art from the past reveal the
cultures that produced them and how the works are
relevant today.
3. Describe the criteria used to judge works of art using
the appropriate terminology.
Survey of Art History,
1. Use appropriate terminology in comparing and
Renaissance through
contrasting works of art of the various historical
Contemporary
periods, styles, and cultures.
2. Describe how works of art from the past reveal the
cultures that produced them and how the works are
relevant today.
3. Describe the criteria used to judge works of art using
the appropriate terminology.
Art Appreciation
1. Demonstrate basic knowledge of visual elements,
principles of design, style and content of visual arts.
2. Describe and analyze works of visual art, using
appropriate terminology.
3. Demonstrate basic knowledge of visual art media.
4. Demonstrate basic knowledge of periods of art history
of various societies.
History of Asian Art
1. Use appropriate terminology in comparing and
contrasting works of art of the various historical
periods, styles, and cultures.
2. Describe how works of art from the past reveal the
cultures that produced them and how the works are
relevant today.
3. Describe the criteria used to judge works of art
using the appropriate terminology.
Beginning Painting
1. Choose among oil, acrylic, or watercolor mediums, the
preferred medium for future artistic technique
development.
2. Use basic blending techniques to produce a convincing
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illusion of three dimensions on the painting surface.
3. Use basic painting equipment and techniques to
produce images of various subject matter such as
wildlife, still life, landscape, figurative.
Art 10B Intermediate Painting
1. Use equipment and techniques in the chosen medium
(oil, acrylic, or water color) to produce images in
alternative methods of visual expression such as
cubism and nonrepresentationalism.
2. Use alternate techniques such as glazing, additives,
etc, in the chosen medium to visually express selected
subject matter.
3. Use appropriate terminology in choosing the subject
matter and describing the painting style to use.
Art 10C Advanced Painting
1. Use alternate techniques such as monoprint in the
chosen medium (oil, acrylic, or watercolor) to visually
express selected subject matter.
2. Express a subject more thoroughly through the use of
a series of paintings and use appropriate terminology
to critique the paintings
3. Exhibit the beginnings of a personal style of painting
style.
Art 10D Portfolio Painting
1. Produce a portfolio of paintings suitable for
presentation.
2. Discuss and/or write using appropriate terminology
during the presentation of the portfolio for display or
further education.
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Advanced Life Drawing
1. Develop in writing an exhibition proposal using
appropriate terminology
2. Assemble, organize and install an exhibit of visual art.
3. Demonstrate appropriate speaking skills and
vocabulary in verbal presentations defending artistic
styles.
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Digital Layout: Design for
1. Organize a given area of two-dimensional space with
Publication
respect to specified audiences and purposes.
2. Use digital imaging and layout software to create a
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variety of publications.
Art 18
Advanced Life Drawing
1. Produce increasingly sophisticated realistic drawings
from live models using right brain perceptual skills.
2. Produce realistic drawings from live models using
various media.
3. Produce drawings in non-realistic/non-European styles
using chosen media.
4. Describe life drawings using appropriate terminology.
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Art 19A
Digital Photography
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12, 2008
Art 19B
Intermediate Digital Photography
Art 19C
Advanced Digital Photography
1. Capture images with correct exposure, using basic digital
photographic tools.
2. Manipulate images, using basic software techniques.
1. Use digital photographic tools and techniques to
capture images that have personal meaning.
2. Use software tools and techniques to enhance the
expression of personal ideas and feelings, beginning to
explore the development of a personal style.
1. Use advanced digital photographic image capture to
express their photographic style to the viewer.
2. Use advanced digital tools and techniques in Adobe
Photoshop/Elements to enhance the expression of
personal ideas and feelings into a coherent personal
style/aesthetic using properly prepared prints.
1. Produce a body of work that effectively expresses a
personal photographic style.
2. Prepare work suitable for presentation to an
institution for further photographic education, an
entry-level job in the photographic field, or a
commercial gallery for show.
1. Produce increasingly sophisticated realistic drawings
from live models using right brain perceptual skills.
2. Produce realistic drawings from live models using
various media.
3. Produce drawings in non-realistic/non-European styles
using chosen media.
Art 19D Portfolio Digital Photography
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Beginning Printing
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4. Describe life drawings using appropriate terminology.
Art 25
Introduction to Computer Art
Art 28
Introduction to Website Design
Art 30
Introduction to Sculpture
Art 35
Glass Design
Art 36A
Beginning Ceramics
5. Solve visual problems using design principles and basic
techniques in Adobe CS 2/3.
6. Discuss and analyze digital graphics, using appropriate
terminology.
7. Demonstrate basic knowledge of career opportunities in
digital graphics.
1. Design an efficient and aesthetically effective
website using basic principles of design.
2. Construct a website using industry standards
software Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
3. Maintain, update and revise a basic “static” web
page.
February
12, 2008
1. Design and produce a work in stained glass using basic
design principles and basic stained glass techniques.
2. Design and produce glass pieces using basic design
principles and glass fusing and slumping techniques.
3. Describe and analyze works of glass, using appropriate
terminology.
1. Use hand-building techniques to produce slab, coil, and
pinch pot pieces.
2. Use wheel-throwing techniques to throw a cylinder
using two pounds of clay.
3. Use single glazing and texture techniques to enhance
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12, 2008
1. Use basic 3-dimensional design principles and basic
sculpture techniques to design and produce additive
and subtractive sculpture.
2. Conceptualize, and interpret ides in works,
drawings, and sculptural form.
3. Solve basic problems of visual expression, by using
formal 3-dimensional design principles.
4. Construct using basic building materials objects
having expressive, aesthetic and functional value.
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12, 2008
Art 36B
Intermediate Ceramics
Art 36C
Advanced Ceramics
Art 36D Portfolio Ceramics
Art 43A
Beginning Jewelry and
Metalsmithing
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pieces.
4. Use appropriate terminology to describe ceramics.
1. Use hand-building techniques to produce altered pieces.
2. Use increasingly complex hand building techniques to
produce pieces.
3. Combine hand built and wheel thrown pieces.
4. Use layer/wax resist/airbrush glazing techniques
5. Demonstrate knowledge of ceramics produced by past
and non-European cultures.
1. Use advanced techniques to produce pieces that
demonstrate the beginnings of a personal style.
2. Use appropriate language to describe and explain your
emerging style.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of current trends in
contemporary ceramics.
1. Produce a body (“portfolio”) of ceramics showing a
personal style emphasis suitable for exhibition.
2. Use appropriate terminology to make oral and written
presentations of the work for exhibition or further
education.
1. Properly use hand and power tools common to
jewelry production including saw, file, snips, rolling
mill, soldering torch and polishing tools, and
hammer and anvil.
2.
3.
Art 43B
Beginning Jewelry DesignCasting
Design jewelry pieces using formal design principles with
reference from the student’s personal sense of aesthetics
Demonstrate knowledge of and analyze works of jewelry, both
contemporary and historic using appropriate and relevant
terminology
1. Properly use hand and power tools common to jewelry
production by casting including centrifuge, vacuum
machine, polishing tools, etc.
2. Use common contemporary techniques of casting
sterling silver. Techniques will include pouring,
centrifuge, vacuum casting, etc.
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17, 2009
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3. Use rock saws and polishers to cut and set a cabochon
stone.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of body ornamentation and
jewelry design in western and non-western cultures.
Art 43C Intermediate Jewelry Design
1. Design and produce a piece of jewelry based on
research of body ornamentation of an indigenous
culture.
2. Use processes such as inlaying, repousse and
patination.
3. Fabricate jewelry using “cold connection” methods.
4. Incorporate non-precious materials and found objects
in a finished piece.
Art 43D Advanced Jewelry
1. Adhere to professional expectations in quality of
design and production of jewelry pieces.
2. Produce working drawings.
3. Continue to develop a personal style.
4. Produce a formal portfolio of finished pieces.
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Art Education Methods
First Enrollment:
1. Use visual elements of art and basic principles of design
to solve basic visual problems.
2. Use appropriate terminology to describe visual works of
art.
3. Design and present a lesson for visual art education
Second Enrollment:
1. Use style, content, and various media to solve visual
problems.
2. Use appropriate terminology to describe visual works of
art in terms of # 1 above.
3. Design and present a three-lesson unit for visual art
education.
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Lettering Design/Topography
1. Use the principles of typography to create a visual
design that utilizes text to effectively “sell” a product.
2. Creatively use text to express a personal idea/emotion
in an individual manner.
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17, 2009
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12, 2008
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2007
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Marketing for the Artist/Designer
1. Create a portfolio of work suitable for presentation
to: an institution of continuing education, a potential
employer, or a gallery.
2. Present themselves and their work in a professional
business-like manner to continue their progress in
the visual arts field
3. Demonstrate understanding of the basic steps
necessary for self-employment.
Art 60B
Advance Production Graphics
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Digital Illustration
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Production Graphics
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2007
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15, 2011
1. Create product graphics for clients in the campus
community, using the six-step design process,
design principles and processes with Adobe CS
software.
2. Discuss and analyze commercial applications of
digital graphics using appropriate terminology.
3. Demonstrate professional commercial artist/client
relationships working with clients.
4. Organize time and workspace to meet a deadline.
November
15, 2011
1. Solve visual problems using design principles and
special effects techniques in Adobe Photoshop and
Illustrator.
2. Discuss and analyze color, value contrast, depth
perception, composition, and conceptual elements,
lighting, etc. with use of appropriate terminology.
December
20, 2011
1. Direct and assist apprentice design students
2. Manage and direct a job from start to finish use the
six step design process.
3. Create product graphics for clients in the campus
community, using design principles and processes
with Adobe CS software.
4. Discuss and analyze commercial applications of
digital graphics using appropriate terminology.
5. Demonstrate professional commercial artist/client
relationships working with clients.
6. Organize time and workspace to meet a deadline.
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15, 2011
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3. Produce conceptual based two-dimensional imagery
that merges both the fine arts and commercial needs
of artist, graphic designers, media artist and character
animators.
Art 65
Advanced We Page Design
Art 130
Mural Painting Workshop
1. Design a dynamic, efficient, and aesthetically
effective website using basic principles of Design.
2. Construct a website using industry standard Adobe
CS software.
3. Upload a website to the World Wide Web, maintain,
update and revise it.
First Enrollment:
1. Working in a group, design a mural using design
principles.
2. Prepare a mural surface.
3. Working in a group, execute a mural using basic
techniques.
Second Enrollment:
1. Prepare a basic budget for a proposed mural project.
2. Design a mural for a commission.
3. Working in a group, enlarge the design on to the mural
surface.
4. Working in a group, execute a mural using intermediate
techniques.
Third Enrollment:
1. Develop and research community restriction easement
issues and for a specific mural location.
2. Develop a plan utilizing the available work force to
execute a mural.
3. Research and describe methods for preserving finished
murals.
December
20, 2011
February
12, 2008