Learning Outcomes for Creative Media

At Champlain, you can apply your creative work to a variety of different career paths.

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Through collaborations with other students, classroom teaching, and hands-on experience, you’ll hone your artistic practice and gain a solid understanding of the business of interdisciplinary artistic endeavor.

This deep set of proficiencies in multiple areas will increase your marketability in a variety of dynamic creative industries. You will graduate from this program as a confident, articulate professional with the ability to express your process, your artistic voice, and your personal brand.

Students in the Creative Media program will develop these abilities and competencies:

  • Context
    Identify, compare, and contrast theoretical, critical, and historical approaches to art and aesthetics and apply these to your own work and the work of others.
  • Proficiency
    Acquire proficiency in the technical processes, tools, workflow, and design considerations in multiple media.
  • Experimentalism
    Identify experimental approaches from fine art and popular media and apply them to your own creative productions in order to create more effective, meaningful, or original work; experiment with materials, design principles, and work processes.
  • Hybridity
    Draw on an understanding of the properties of a variety of distinct media in order to create works that productively combine, hybridize, or “mash up” media forms.
  • Expression
    Create artworks that are expressive of your personal values, feelings, and intellectual interests and articulate (in writing and verbally) these intentions; produce creative works that demonstrate your own aesthetic sensibility (“voice”).
  • Analysis
    Articulate (in writing and verbally) the ways that meaning is generated through combinations of aesthetic and material choices, content, and the context and/or manner in which works of art are presented; use these insights to make considered choices in the creation and presentation of your own work.
  • Engagement
    Identify and evaluate ways in which artists engage with social discourse at local, national, or global scales; use research techniques and relevant theoretical frameworks to inquire into topics of importance to society and apply this insight to the creation of artworks that respond to contemporary social issues.
  • Process
    Employ strategies for setting goals, managing time, delivering milestones according to schedule, taking and giving feedback, collaboration, and the iterative development of creative works.
  • Professionalization
    Demonstrate skills in interpersonal communication and self-presentation; identify and evaluate exhibition, employment, and entrepreneurial opportunities; identify and articulate your own transferable skills; and critically evaluate how professional identities are culturally constructed.