11/7/2019 Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art Faculty Senate Meeting Attachment: FS 19/20-66 ProgramNovember Change 21, 2019 Request New Program Proposal In Workflow Date Submied: 03/27/19 3:24 pm 1. ART Commiee Viewing: Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art Chair 2. ART Chair Last edit: 10/03/19 4:27 pm 3. ALS College Changes proposed by: Andrew Connelly (102010595) Commiee Chair 4. ALS Dean Academic Group: (College) Arts & Leers 5. Academic Services Academic Organizaon: (Department) Art 6. Senate Curriculum Subcommiee Catalog Year Effecve: 2020-2021 Catalog Chair NOTE: This degree major program will be subject to program review evaluaon within six years aer implementaon. 7. Faculty Senate Execuve Individual(s) primarily responsible for draing the proposed degree major program: Commiee Chair Name (First Last) Email Phone 999-999-9999 8. Faculty Senate Chair 9. Dean of Andrew Connelly [email protected] 916-278-7514 Undergraduate 10. Dean of Graduate Type of Program Proposal: Major 11. President 12. Provost Is this a pilot program? No 13. Chancellor's Office 14. Board of Trustees Is this a Fast Track program? No 15. WASC Does this major plan to include any formal opons, concentraons, or special emphases? 16. Catalog Editor No Title of the Program: Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art Approval Path https://nextcatalog.csus.edu/courseleaf/approve/ 1/40 11/7/2019 Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art Designaon: (degree terminology) Master of Fine Arts 1. 02/11/19 9:37 am Ian Harvey Abstract of the proposal: (iharvey): Rollback The Department of Art at Sacramento State is proposing to offer a graduate professional Masters of Fine Art to Iniator in Studio Art degree (60-unit degree) starng in the Fall of 2020. The Masters of Fine Art is the standard 2. 03/27/19 3:28 pm graduate terminal degree in the U.S. and Canada for those seeking a professional educaon in the fine arts. Ian Harvey The program will prepare students to work as professional arsts who exhibit comprehensive experse in (iharvey): Approved studio art skills and pracces, broad knowledge of art and art history, ability to arculate their posion for ART Commiee relang to both tradional and contemporary art, and insight into the role of art in human experience. Chair Briefly describe the program proposal (new or change) and provide a jusficaon: 3. 03/27/19 3:29 pm The proposed Masters of Fine Art Degree is a two-year 60-unit, mul-disciplinary and interdisciplinary Carolyn Gibbs program in the visual arts with studies in ceramics, drawing, painng, new media art, printmaking and (carolyng): sculpture. This professional terminal degree offers opportunies for solo and group exhibion, curatorial Approved for ART collaboraon, exhibion catalogue producon and wrien thesis. The curriculum encourages an integraon Chair of art theory, art history and art studio pracce. Students will be expected to demonstrate an advanced 4. 04/04/19 10:59 am level of professional studio competence developed through a significant body of work that is contextualized Robin Fisher in contemporary culture. Special emphasis is placed on the development of individuality, depth, and (rfisher): Rollback to professional competence in both art technique and concepts. ART Chair for ALS College Commiee The Program prepares students to enter the profession by providing experiences with exhibion of their Chair work and community engagement experiences. The program also offers assistantship opportunies in 5. 04/16/19 9:43 am teaching, art technician work and gallery operaons. The MFA is considered the terminal degree in studio Carolyn Gibbs art and graduates would qualify for higher level posions and be eligible to apply for a full-me university (carolyng): teaching posion. Approved for ART Chair Currently, the Department of Art offers a Masters of Art in Studio Art – a 30-unit degree. The 30-unit MA 6. 04/17/19 12:23 pm degree has been in place since Sacramento State was established and has funconed as a degree that Robin Fisher provides extended study for art students to pursue their studio pracce post baccalaureate. With the (rfisher): Rollback to steady increase of Masters of Fine Arts programs, students who are interested in pursuing careers in art find ART Chair for ALS themselves compeng with those who have had a broader and more concentrated educaonal College Commiee experience.The nearest CSU M.F.A. degrees in studio art are offered at CSU Chico, CSU San Francisco and Chair https://nextcatalog.csus.edu/courseleaf/approve/ 2/40 11/7/2019 Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art CSU San Jose. The nearest in the UC system is Davis. Other than UC Davis all other instuons represent a 7. 04/17/19 12:43 pm considerable and/or congested commute for students living in the Sacramento region whether going east Carolyn Gibbs towards the Sierra or west towards San Francisco. An M.F.A. in Studio Art degree from Sacramento State (carolyng): would have a posive impact on the cultural community within the University and in the surrounding Approved for ART Sacramento area. The Sacramento region has been determined to have one of the most culturally diverse Chair populaons in the naon. The region has been growing since the 1990’s and will connue to do so with 8. 04/17/19 1:15 pm increasing industry and jobs due to its relave affordability. Robin Fisher (rfisher): Approved The art studio faculty have created new BA and BFA programs that clarify educaonal experience for our for ALS College students and for our accreditors, The Naonal Associaon of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). In Commiee Chair December 2017, the College of Arts & Leers dedicated resources to hire an outside consultant, Robert 9. 04/30/19 1:31 pm Milnes, to help the department with this effort. Robert Milnes has served as a consultant or evaluator for Melinda Wilson more than fiy universies, colleges, and independent schools of art, chairing 33 accreditaon teams for Ramey (mwilson): NASAD since 1990. Robert Milnes spent three days on campus meeng with studio faculty, students, the Approved for ALS Chair of Art, and the Dean of Arts & Leers. In his January 5th Consultant’s Report Milnes states, Dean 10. 04/30/19 1:42 pm “The faculty proposal to drop the MA program and move to a 212408496: MFA program therefore makes sense both within the context of graduates of the Rollback to ALS BFA proposal, who would no longer need it, and as a service to the region and Dean for Academic hopefully beyond as it would provide a new terminal degree qualifying the recipients Services for teaching posions and ideally, more substanal studio professional pracce.” Page 17 11. 05/01/19 8:28 am Melinda Wilson Objecves of the degree program: Ramey (mwilson): Below are the Master of Fine Arts Program Learning Outcomes and how the proposed program meets the Approved for ALS University's mission and strategic goals. See aachment in "addional files" Dean "PLO_and_Assessment_plan_MFA" and "Course_Plan_MFA_Roadmaps". 12. 05/01/19 9:34 am 212408496: MFA Program Learning Outcomes: Rollback to ALS Dean for Academic 1. Students will produce a significant body of work that contributes to contemporary arsc Services pracce and discourse. https://nextcatalog.csus.edu/courseleaf/approve/ 3/40 11/7/2019 Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art 13. 05/01/19 9:36 am 2. Students will complete original research that relates to their body of work. This research may Melinda Wilson include invesgaons of historical and contemporary arsts, as well as research relang to the Ramey (mwilson): content and process of the student’s work. Rollback to ART Chair for ALS Dean 3. Students will arculate their work’s contribuon to contemporary arsc pracce and 14. 05/01/19 1:34 pm discourse, as well as the relaonship between their research and the body of work produced. Carolyn Gibbs (carolyng): 4. Students will professionally present a cohesive body of work for public exhibion. Approved for ART Chair 5. Students will demonstrate their preparaon for professional engagement in the arts. 15. 05/01/19 2:42 pm 212408496: The proposed Masters of Fine Art in Studio Art degree program is aligned with both the university’s mission Approved for ALS and strategic goals. The Department of Art recognizes the importance of Sacramento State as California's College Commiee capital university by providing a professional art degree program for the students in this region. Chair 16. 05/01/19 2:45 pm MFA Strategic Goals (aligned with University’s goals) Melinda Wilson Ramey (mwilson): • Provide a student orientaon that serves as a guide for success in the graduate program. Approved for ALS • Provide guidance with key milestones throughout students’ tenure, reinforcing each semester’s Dean goals and expectaons, while supporng student engagement in graduate campus acvies. 17. 05/08/19 8:07 am • Support a vital learning environment that prepares students for professional engagement in the 212408496: arts. Approved for • Provide opportunies for high impact pracces such as community engagement through Academic Services exhibions, public art projects, internships and club acvies. 18. 05/15/19 10:57 am • Engage in student community-based, hands-on learning opportunies with art professionals and Katherine Chalmers assistantship/teaching opportunies. (chalmers): • Integrate opportunies for collecve problem solving, documentaon, and Approved for exhibions that are unique to Sacramento State, such as professional and or cross-disciplinary Senate Curriculum opportunies with both the campus and region of Sacramento. Subcommiee Chair The proposed MFA curriculum is structured to have a core curriculum that builds sequenally through the https://nextcatalog.csus.edu/courseleaf/approve/ 4/40 11/7/2019 Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art The proposed MFA curriculum is structured to have a core curriculum that builds sequenally through the program.