Your program curriculum is designed to ensure graduates acquire the essential skills, knowledge, and attitudes appropriate and relevant to both the needs of students and employers.

Program Vocational Learning Outcomes

Program vocational learning outcomes describe what graduates of the program have demonstrated they can do with the knowledge and skills they have achieved during their studies. The outcomes are closely tied to the needs of the workplace. Through assessment (e.g., assignments and tests), students verify their ability to reliably perform these outcomes before graduating.

The program vocational learning outcomes for this program are

• Create two and three-dimensional designs using a wide range of materials, processes and techniques.
• Apply various strategies for idea generation to identify and solve visual problems in a design process.
• Apply the formal elements and principals of design to create effective compositions.
• Utilize a variety of presentation skills to exhibit portfolios and creative work in both public and private venues.
• Develop a professional art and design portfolio through studio-based projects in a variety of media.
• Apply art concepts and history in critiques of artworks in their social context.
• Apply basic entrepreneurial principles to professional practice in the field of art and design.

Essential Employability Skills Outcomes

Essential Employable Skills (EES) are skills that, regardless of a student’s program or discipline, are critical for success in the workplace, in day-to-day living, and for lifelong learning. Graduates will reliably demonstrate abilities in six skill categories:

• communicate clearly, concisely and correctly in the written, spoken, and visual form that fulfills the purpose and meets the needs of the audience.
• respond to written, spoken, or visual messages in a manner that ensures effective communication.
• execute mathematical operations accurately.
• apply a systematic approach to solve problems.
• use a variety of thinking skills to anticipate and solve problems.
• locate, select, organize, and document information using appropriate technology and information systems.
• analyze, evaluate, and apply relevant information from a variety of sources.
• show respect for the diverse opinions, values, belief systems, and contributions of others.
• interact with others in groups or teams in ways that contribute to effective working relationships and the achievement of goals.
• manage the use of time and other resources to complete projects.
• take responsibility for one’s own actions, decisions, and consequences.

Global Citizenship and Equity Learning Outcomes

There are six Global Citizenship and Equity (GCE) learning outcomes integrated into Diploma and Advanced Diploma programs as a component of Centennial’s Signature Learning Experience (SLE). The SLE reflects the College’s promise to provide students with a distinctive and inclusive educational experience that builds on a foundation of global citizenship, equity, and social justice. Certificate and Graduate Certificates also include at least two GCE learning outcomes. The GCE learning outcomes are:

1. Identify one’s role and responsibilities as a global citizen in personal and professional life.
2. Identify beliefs, values and behaviours that form individual and community identities and the basis for respectful relationships.
3. Analyze issues of equity at the personal, professional, and global level.
4. Analyze the use of the world’s resources to achieve sustainability and equitable distribution at the personal, professional, and global level.
5. Identify and challenge unjust practices in local and global systems.
6. Support personal and social responsibility initiatives at the local, national, and global level.

Global Citizenship and Equity Portfolio

As a component of the SLE, Diploma and Advanced Diploma program students will complete the Global Citizenship and Equity (GCE) Portfolio. Building the GCE Portfolio is a process of documenting your GCE learning. Each item selected for inclusion in the portfolio demonstrates growth and understanding of Global Citizenship and Equity within your program of study.

Students are encouraged to develop their GCE Portfolio beginning in their first semester. You will add artifacts from coursework and accompanying reflections as well as artifacts arising from co-curricular activities, volunteering, etc. to your portfolio as you progress through the program. You are encouraged to use the ePortfolio tools available on eCentennial, as well as to develop an online professional portfolio presence through LinkedIn and/or other personal websites/blogs.

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