Program Review for

Art (M.S.)

2005-2006 Recommendations

I. Strengths:

1. Faculty-provided individual studies to meet the students’ demands.

2. Non-traditional instruction formats.

II. Weaknesses:

1. Recent decrease in enrollment

2. Insufficient number of full-time, tenure/track faculty to teach graduate courses, such as 3D course.

3. Insufficient research facilities and spaces.

III. Recommendations:

1. Further development of non-traditional format courses, such as distance-learning courses, would help to increase the current enrollment

2. The graduate program needs to acquire additional full-time, tenure track faculty to support innovative programs such as distance-learning.

3. This program needs more operating budgets and spaces to meet student’s demands. Faculties may need to submit research proposals to get funding from NSF, THECB, etc.

Program Recommendation: Program recommended for continuation

Dean’s Comment: The department should incorporate many, if not most, of the suggestions made by the consultant who reviewed programs in the department. In addition, the department should set enrollment and graduation targets for the next three years. The targets should be based on the enrollment and graduation figures of peer institutions.

Outcome Assessment

Master’s Program in Art

Spring 2007

Dean’s Comments:

1 Further development of non-traditional format courses.

Online Course:

Though not directly related to the graduate program, Todd Lucas has undergone

Jump Start training, and has subsequently developed the department’s first online

course. This is ART 1311 (Design) which is a basic BFA foundation course, as

well as, a General Education Fine Arts core course. Though, this course is not a

graduate course it will serve as a working prototype for the development of online

graduate experiences. Art 1311 will go online Fall Term 2007.

1-Credit Courses Modules:

The department has begun work on a series of 1-credit modules that will

initially include 3 modules pertaining to the profession of art. And 3 modules of

ceramics. These should be submitted to the curriculum committee Fall Term

2007

Foreign Professor:

Summer Session 2006 The Department brought a foreign artist (Sevim Cizer)

a professor from 9 Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. She worked with both

undergraduate and graduate students bring a new perspective and processes

to the students. The department plans to expand this sort of involvement.

Engagement Activities:

Students, including Masters Candidates have participated in numerous

engagement activities including:

- Exhibitions in Brownsville; Port Isabel, Mc Allen, Corpus Christi, Alice,

Progresso, Oaxaco and Austin.

- The Docents program at the South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus

Christi; 3 students have thus far taken advantage of this opportunity. No

Graduate students have participated to date.

- Art installation project in Austin

- Recruitment presentations at schools in the region

2 Acquisition of additional full-time tenure track faculty

No funds have been made available to support hiring additional faculty.

3 Additional operating budgets and spaces made available

The department has gained no additional funds or space to support the graduate program.