san antonio college

Fine Arts: The primary mission of the Fine Arts program is to educate our students through academic, pragmatic and aesthetic investigations of the disciplines of art history, drawing, design, sculpture, ceramics, painting, photography, printmaking, and art metals.

• Our academic mission is to provide visual art education as a means for the development of aesthetic sensibility and visual literacy, and to provide access for visual learners to higher education. Our comprehensive approach includes a synthesis of the multicultural history of visual expression, contemporary issues, the acknowledgment of the interdisciplinary academic nature of art, and individual aesthetic investigations through research and hands-on media involvement. Course offerings are in accord with the Visual Arts Transfer Curriculum recommended by the Texas Association of Schools of Art and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. New 2 + 2 agreements with area and state institutions and perennial scholarships designated by our faculty to national art institutes prove the currency of the fine arts curriculum.
• Our aesthetic mission is to help students gain experience and develop confidence in engaging individual creative processes, making judgments that require critical thinking skills, and understanding these means of individual empowerment as a life-long developmental process.
• Our pragmatic mission is to provide an intellectually stimulating , healthy, secure, and well equipped learning environment that includes state of the art image technology. The physical plant, built in 1991, has improved the overall efficacy of our mission. This evolution along with the continued up-dating and refinement of our curriculum has positioned the Fine-Arts program in a leadership role in the academic community and community at large as we meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Digital Design: The primary mission of the Digital Design Program (formerly Graphic Arts - 2007) is to educate our students through academic, pragmatic and aesthetic investigations of the disciplines of print and electronic graphics, which include: history of communication graphics, graphic technologies, typography, graphic design, illustration, art direction, photography, digital imaging, computer animation, multimedia, audio-video production, web design and cooperative education. Student entry-level job portfolios, competitions and exhibition of student works in the Visual Arts & Technology Center gallery amplify and manifest these studies.

• Our academic mission is to provide visual art education as a means for the development of aesthetic sensibility and visual literacy, and to provide access for visual learners to higher education. Our comprehensive approach includes a synthesis of the multi- cultural history of visual expression, contemporary issues, the acknowledgment of the interdisciplinary academic nature of art, and individual aesthetic investigations with hands-on media involvement.The Digital Design Program provides technical multi-track career opportunities that are directly linked to business and industry.
• Course offerings are in accord with the Visual Arts Transfer Curriculum recommended by the Texas Association of Schools of Art and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. New 2 + 2 agreements with area and state institutions and perennial scholarships designated by our faculty to major national institutes of higher learning have proven the currency of the Digital Design curriculum. Opportunities for transferability will soon exist for students with the development of a 2+2 program with the University of theIncarnate Word.
• Our pragmatic mission is to provide an intellectually stimulating, healthy, secure and well equipped learning environment and to facilitate the development of skills as dictated by the demands of a rapidly evolving industry. Students become qualified for entry level positions in the fields of print, sequential and interactive graphics. We seek equitable allocation of funds to enable the sustained advancement of the Digital Design Program.
• Our aesthetic mission is to help students gain experience and develop confidence in engaging individual creative processes, making aesthetic judgments that require critical thinking skills, and understanding these means of individual empowerment as a life-long developmental process.
• We serve a culturally diverse student constituency by offering the highest quality academic, technical, and aesthetic education that enables our students to compete at the regional, national and international level for admission and for scholarships to major institutions of higher learning.
• Our physical plant, which opened in 1992, has improved the overall efficacy of our mission. This evolution along with the continued up-dating and refinement of our curriculum has positioned the Digital Design Program in a leadership role in the academic community and community at large as we meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.