2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Fine Arts (AA.ART)


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Program Description 

The Associate of Arts in Fine Arts program at Vermont State University offers a foundation in a variety of artistic disciplines, including drawing, painting, media arts, art history and sculpture.   

The program offers a strongly humanistic course of study in the arts. Through creative inquiry, complex problem-solving, organizational skills and diverse methods of expression, students in the Fine Arts program will become immersed in a community of innovative artists.  

Through studio experiments, students will learn to sharpen their senses of perception. Creating artwork means distilling observations, ideas, and dreams into a physical form. Along the way, the materials, technologies, and methods students use will challenge them to make complex decisions and come up with original solutions.

Program Outcomes  

  1. Conceptualize personal or group vision into creative works of art.  

  1. Use elements of art and principles of design to create visually expressive artwork.   

  1. Utilize either a specific or a variety of mediums to present realized artist vision.  

  1. Critically analyze artwork by intent and execution.  

  1. Develop an effective studio practice and effectively present artwork 

Credits Required for Major: 27


Graduation Requirements


To obtain a degree, students must fulfill the major-specific requirements as well as satisfy all other Degree Requirements  including the Connections General Education Program Requirements .

Sample Degree Map


Degree Map (Sample) - AA.ART  

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