Program Overview

Associate in Fine Arts
(Art) (A10200)

The Associate of Fine Arts degree program prepares students for many career options in art. Each participant receives training for entry into a career as an art professional.  This major requires coursework in art foundations and general education courses as well as electives in a variety of studio art classes. 

Students may chose from course offerings in drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, computer art, and jewelry. 

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Career Outline

Upon completion of an A.F.A degree, our students usually transfer into a Bachelor of Fine Arts program at a four-year university. 

Program Outcomes

Gaston College graduates receiving an Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, or Associate of Fine Arts degree will be able to:

• Use computers and other educational technologies to achieve academic and work-related goals.
• Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the role and function of computers and use the computer to solve problems.
• Students should be able to integrate the use of a calculator or Excel to construct, analyze, solve and graph solutions to problems.
• Communicate non-verbally by reading analytically and writing fluently.
• Students should be able to demonstrate the ability to organize, plan and execute the college level expository essay.
• Students should be able to comprehend and analyze college level reading material.
• Analyze problems and make logical decisions.
  Students will meet this outcome by doing at least one of the following:
• Students should be able to synthesize given information and use this knowledge to make rational decisions.
• Students should be able to synthesize mathematical criteria to determine an appropriate solution to satisfy the given conditions of a problem.
• Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the empirical nature of science and the scientific method and use this knowledge to analyze problems and make rational decisions.
• Students should be able to be able to identify and analyze arguments.
• Students should be able to develop a logically structured expository essay for an academic audience.
• Examine the arts/humanities and social behavioral sciences from cultural and historic perspectives.

Students will meet this outcome by doing at least one of the following:

• Students should be able to evaluate and explain patterns in human political, cultural, and economic life and their impact on human societies.
• Students should be able to differentiate and discuss how cultural groups express themselves through the humanities/arts.
• Students should be able to evaluate and explain patterns in various human social groups and their interrelatedness.
• Analyze, manipulate, and interpret quantitative data.
• Students should be able to demonstrate the ability to perform fundamental algebraic concepts and skills to analyze and interpret quantitative data.
• Given relevant information and practicing math skills necessary for the sciences, students should be able to be able to analyze, manipulate, and interpret quantitative data.

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