Mission, Vision and Scope
Vision
The College of Fine Arts and Humanities educates the global citizen in communication, visual and performing arts, education and business.
Mission
The College of Fine Arts and Humanities offers general education opportunities, major and minor courses of study, and professional and graduate programs in nine departments and over twenty disciplines. The faculty and staff of the college strive to understand and respect the common needs of our diverse community and the skills and abilities sought by regional, national, and international employers, as well as to foster a humane environment for minds and bodies.
Scope
Through art, St. Cloud State University is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. In addition, the College of Fine Arts and Humanities offers nationally accredited programs in music, theatre, communication disorders, and mass communications. Our programs in English, communication studies, philosophy, foreign languages, and film studies are all recognized for their quality - as are our facilities, some of the finest in the upper midwest. The highly professional faculty and staff are committed to providing personal attention to every student, and thorough advising and thoughtful mentoring afford students excellent academic and career preparation.
The departments in the College of Fine Arts and Humanities share a respect for communicative and expressive abilities, diversity and ambiguity, creativity, critical thinking and abstract reasoning, performance and production of meaning, and expertise in the creation and manipulation of symbols. The disciplines in the Fine Arts and Humanities:
- have been at the core of the university education since universities were first imagined
- are in a unique position to remember and preserve the intellectual traditions as well as to design and drive new literacies, new knowledge, new arts, and new humanities
- actively participate in the construction of the cultural life of the institution and the community
- are for many people the point of contact between the university and the public
- educate the people who will be teaching fine arts and humanities, whether as a large, general topic or in one of its many specializations
- encourage practical application of the principles of our disciplines with internships or study abroad in England, Germany, France, Costa Rica, Japan, Chile, the Czech Republic and China.
Our students are our greatest resource. Their talents and education will lead them to be successful "knowledge workers" of the future, people able to create and manipulate symbols, identify and solve problems, and broker strategies of expression and communications - in a wide variety of media.
The college promotes:
- Intercultural communication and global programs
- New Media and web-technologies
- Expression through art, music, speech, theatre and dance
- Creation and interpretation of new processes and symbols
- Minors, majors, graduate studies and applied doctoral programs
- Service to campus constituents across the curriculum
- Partnership with off-campus constituents
- Preparing students for changing careers
- Updating our knowledge base and adjusting curriculum and methods
- Responsible citizenship
- Fulfilled lives
