Pictorial Arts: Painting

This program is designed to serve as preparation for transfer to a four-year college or university, as well as enable the student to acquire skills in producing marketable fine art for gallery exhibition and commissions, or to enter into the commercial area.

The required courses for this degree transfer as lower division credits into participating CSU programs.

Transfer students are encouraged to consult Assist.org and four-year college or university catalogs for specific requirements, as well as see a Palomar College counselor.

Learning Outcome(s):

1. Research, document, present, and relate to aesthetic as well as contextual source material and influences through the presentation of sketchbooks, journals or digital presentations.
2. Evaluate and explain the personal, conceptual, cultural or historical context of their original painting projects.
3. Manifest the proper relationship of narrative, metaphor, abstraction, representation, composition and technique as they relate to students' original painting projects.
4. Use program specific language during the presentation and discussion of students' own, as well as other students', drawings and paintings.
5. Use the drawing and painting media, methods and procedures outlined in Course SLOs to communicate visual ideas and concepts.
6. Utilize the formal elements and principles of two-dimensional design and composition to communicate visual concepts in drawing and painting.