Fine Arts, Associate of Arts
(97-98 credits)
The SKC Art Department, embedded in an indigenous worldview, provides a solid foundation for students desiring to pursue a career in Fine Arts. The diversity of this unique program, with its rich cultural foundation and nationally and internationally recognized faculty, provides one of the most dynamic Native American and Studio Arts facilities in Montana. The Fine Arts Degree at Salish Kootenai College will provide a quality professional post-secondary art experience in fundamental skill development, appreciation, and creation of art in various art medias. Students will have the ability to develop their creative ideas into quality art forms, as they increase their technical and conceptual expertise. The traditional Native American Art classes will also provide students with the knowledge and techniques for building skills that will allow them to produce original art items, while promoting and encouraging the preservation of our rich Salish and Kootenai Traditional Arts.
Program Objectives
The Fine Arts Degree is designed to:
- Prepare students to enter into higher degree programs in their area of interest, including transfer into a Bachelor of Fine Arts Program.
- Perpetuate the arts of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and other Native American tribes.
- Introduce students to a range of art media and creative techniques.
- Introduce Salish Kootenai and other indigenous arts through studio and lecture courses.
- Increase knowledge and awareness of art and its importance in world history.
- Prepare student to market their work or apply to other art programs through completion of an art portfolio.
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Associate Degree, students will be prepared to:
- Investigate and apply a variety of art techniques in their creative work.
- Develop technical, conceptual, and design art skills.
- Communicate thoughtfully and knowledgeably about personal art and the art of others.
- Support, promote, and participate in community art.
- Understand expressive and conceptual uses of community and tribal art.
- Develop initial plans for marketing their work as artists.
- Achieve visual interpretation, development, and presentation of Native American art.
Curriculum
Fall (First Year)
Winter (First Year)
Spring (First Year)
| ARTD145 | Beginning Printmaking | 3 |
| ARTD111 | Fundamentals of Art and Design | 3 |
| OR | |
| FTVP102 | Introduction to Photography | 2 |
| GEOG100 | Introduction to Geography | 5 |
| OR | |
| GEOL101 | Physical Geology | 4 |
| AND | |
| GEOL102 | Physical Geology Lab | 1 |
NASL
| Any Native American Language Course | 3 |
| ARTD115 | Painting | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16-17 |
Fall (Second Year)
Winter (Second Year)
Spring (Second Year)
| BUMG152 | Creative Marketing for Small Business | 3 |
| NASD176 | Introduction to Traditional Tool Making | 3 |
| OR | |
| NASD292 | Encampment | 4 |
| ARTD275 | Artist Portfolio II | 1 |
ELECTIVE
| NASD Art Elective | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16-17 |
Total Credit Hours: 97-98