The requirements, reviews, and curriculum for CCA's Jewelry and Metal Arts program are designed such that graduating students successfully achieve the following program learning outcomes:

Jewelry and Metal Arts students can effectively present their work in an artist statement that is specific and relevant to the work presented.

Students can speak clearly and respond effectively to questions about their aesthetic intent, creative process, and the future trajectories of their work.

Students can develop their ideas and make work that expresses themselves with the conceptual, material, and technological skills consistent with expectations for entry-level professional practice.

• Concept
  Student demonstrates the ability to make work that is well researched and conceptually rigorous.
• Material
  Students use materials in consideration of their physical properties as well as their poetic, formal, social, or cultural implications.
• Technique
  Student demonstrates the technical skill necessary to undertake work on the senior level.
• Presentation
  Students have intentionally installed their work to effectively emphasize its visual impact and/or conceptual meaning.

Students combine or synthesize ideas, images, materials, technique, form, color, and/or spatial dynamics to express themselves in original/innovative ways.

Students can apply their knowledge of historical and contemporary art and design practices to contextualize their work within historical landscapes and contemporary dialogues.

Students understand how meaning is formed through the interrelationship between multiple works, and are moving towards building an independent artistic voice and a cohesive body of work.

Students can engage with diverse and global perspectives, histories, and values, including the cultural relevance of larger systems of power and privilege.

Students demonstrate an understanding of sustainability as a global, social, economic, environmental, and practice-based concern.