Foundation

Our Mission

The Foundation Program at Otis College is a rigorous first-year experience designed to empower a diverse community of makers as they build fundamental skills, critical thinking, problem-solving, research methodologies, social responsibility, and meaningful communication skills in Art and Design. 

Program Learning Outcomes:

Students in the Foundation Program will:

• Develop and apply fundamental skills to employ the elements and principles of art and design. 
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills, including the competency to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize collected information to make conscious decisions. Learning to bridge the connections of observations, perspective, problem-solving, and reflection.
• Understand and express multi-sensory fluency: Discern and discover both conventional and unconventional mediums to create relevant content and construct various expressions through effective research, materials, and methods.
• Build career and life skills: Strengthen understanding of academic culture, learning process, and foundational disciplinary requirements and skills that incorporate notions of integrity, civility, and community. 
• Develop research skills, strategies, and investigation by interpreting and incorporating appropriate visual and textual research information relevant to the course projects and sources for fostering inventiveness. 
• Develop an awareness of social responsibility by working individually and collaboratively to consider the social and environmental impact of art and design. 
• Develop communication skills: The ability to communicate ideas orally, visually, and in writing with clarity as is relevant to project goals, purposes, and contexts. Learn these skills through self-reflection and critique.

Degree Requirements

All programs’ curricula are developed in response to Program Learning Outcomes, which signify what students learn within a degree program or emphasis area. All program learning outcomes respond to overarching Institutional Learning Outcomes. View the BFA in Animation program learning outcomes here or request information.