Learning Outcomes

Otis students will demonstrate:

• Disciplinary knowledge and skills
• Proficiency in industry-standard skills, technologies, and processes
• Cross-disciplinary awareness and practice
• Audience-focused research, historical context and field-specific discourse
• Capacity to identify and solve creative problems

Otis students will demonstrate:

• Innovation
• Experimentation and play
• Challenge to the status quo 
• Bravery in their work and their interactions with others

Otis students will demonstrate:

• Self-awareness
• Capacity to communicate (orally, written, and/or visually) about their practice
• Capacity to seek, assemble, evaluate, and ethically apply information and ideas from diverse sources
• Analysis of both ethical and aesthetic impacts of art and design

Otis students will demonstrate:

• Understanding of themselves as parts of a larger whole made up of human and non-human beings 
• Awareness of positionality – in the world, their field, their communities
• Ability to work well, collaborate, and build relationships across differences in identity, perspective, aesthetics, and disciplines
• Integration of skills, information, and concepts

Otis students will demonstrate:

• Ability to define aspirations, future goals and their role within the creative economy 
• Awareness of audience and ability to cultivate relationships with others in their chosen fields 
• Compelling presentation and exhibition skills, through Annual Exhibition, Capstone, and portfolios

• Proficiency in time and project management 
• Career readiness, as evidenced by strong interpersonal skills, self-advocacy, adaptation, autonomy, initiative, and willingness to both receive and offer feedback