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

Students develop a rigorous, conceptually-driven artistic practice that effectively communicates ideas through diverse methodologies including materiality, space, imagery, form, movement, performance, social engagement, sensory perceptions, and/or technology. They demonstrate facility with artistic inquiry and the ability to rigorously experiment in their work, navigating failure and success.

Students understand and develop approaches to an artist's career through models and methods of professional commitment, ethics, and presentation, including identifying professional standards that surround the production, exhibition, context, and promotion of their work.

Students can organize, analyze, and interpret visual information in global artistic and cultural contexts.

Students can interpret significant historical and contemporary movements, works, and theories, and locate their own artistic production within those contexts.

Students can consider non visual audiences, non auditory audiences and how they might engage their work.

Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical and contemporary contexts of artistic production.

Students demonstrate proficiency in manners of engaged, rigorous, and careful evaluation, interpretation, and explication. They demonstrate capability in information gathering, investigation, analysis and discernment, critical thinking, documentation, interpretation, including the interrogation and uses of Artificial Intelligence.

Students effectively address their lines of inquiry, research, and reflection evident in the content of their work through artistic statements and a written thesis.

Students demonstrate capability in verbally presenting their work through reflection and critical analysis to an audience.

Students recognize, formulate, question, and apply ethical questions and principles including critical thinking of contested global issues. They demonstrate the ability to draw from multiple fields of study or to define new fields, expand and bridge disciplines, and transgress boundaries.

Students demonstrate skill in team-building, the exchange of ideas in group endeavors, and actively participate in a common enterprise. They recognize and respond to cultural differences through their work, engaging with diverse and global perspectives, histories, and values, including the cultural relevance of larger systems of power and privilege.

Students are adept at initiating or originating independent judgment and innovative contributions to discourse or practice, uniting others around shared goals while incorporating multiple perspectives.

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