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In helping students discover and develop their perceptions of the visual world around them, the Art Department helps students develop an integrated Christian personality characterized by wholeness. By helping our students work with the process of creation, we attempt to instill within them an appreciation for, and a reverence for their Creator. Some of us do this by beginning our classes with prayer and/or meditation. We also do this by counseling our students during personal crises in a Christian manner.
The Art Department also attempts to help students develop a method of critical judgment by which they can evaluate visual works of art and visual phenomena in the world around them, and by which they can ascertain how these phenomena promote or inhibit a life characterized by wholeness.
The Art Department seeks to instill in students a knowledge and appreciation of the Western intellectual, cultural, and religious heritage, as well as the intellectual, cultural, and religious heritage of those parts of the world with which we in the West are coming into contact more and more frequently.
The Art Department also attempts to help students develop a more sensitive awareness of the world and society in which they live and work by teaching them how their decisions and manipulations of the visual world can either promote or inhibit a life characterized by wholeness.
Why Should I Study Art?
One of the perennial questions asked by students is “Why study Graphic Design or Studio Art?” Here are a number of reasons to consider:
- All of our full-time faculty have worked in the Graphic Design or Studio Art fields at one time or another and all of our full-time faculty continue to be productive in their fields.
- Our state of the art Graphic Design Computer Lab has been designed to enhance and maximize the learning process. The students learn by doing. As the students work at their computers, they can see what the professor is doing as his computer is projected on a large screen in the front of the room.
- Several of our students have received acceptance into well known graduate programs.
- The last time our alumni were surveyed, approximately 70% had secured positions in their fields within six months of graduation. At that time (1990), the average time for our graduates to find employment in their field was 3 months.
What can I do with a degree in Art?
Graphic Design
The analytical skills and knowledge gained through the study of Graphic Design may lead to an exciting career in a wide variety of professions. Here is a sample:
- Graphic Designer
- Web Designer
- Art Director
- Publications Designer
Studio Art
The analytical skills and knowledge gained through the study of Studio Art may lead to an exciting career in a wide variety of professions. Here is a sample:
- A career as a practicing artist
- The museum field
- Graduate work in any of the fine art or design professions
- Graduate work in Art History, Studio Art, or Art Education
Ways we help you achieve success
We attempt to ensure student success through Internships and attempting to replicate the situations they will face after graduation. We do the latter through student projects, mentoring, encouraging students to exhibit their artwork, and the assignment of projects that are used in the “real world,” i.e; posters for the plays put on by the Campbell University Department of Theatre Arts.
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