A case study of technical university students’ perceptionsof campus art in Taiwan

The purpose of the study was to examine technical college students’ perceptions of campus art. The subjects were 384 students from a technical college in southern Taiwan. The instrument was a questionnaire called Campus Art questionnaire consisting of8 items, which can explain 61.76% of variance and the value of Cronbach's Alpha was .836. It took the subjects a few minutes tocomplete Campus Art Questionnaire in spring, 2019; the researchers collected the data from the questionnaire and analyzed the data by descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The results revealed that most of the subjects liked to take art courses, and some of the subjects liked public arts. More than half of the subjects liked the mottos on campus. Near 70% of the subjects liked the graffiti wall on campus. Over three-fourths of the subjects enjoyed the arc-shaped waterfall on campus. About half of the subjects enjoyed visiting the art exhibition on campus. 68% of the subjects agreedthat campus art would promote teachers and students’ culture. Over 75% of the subjects agreed that campus arts was an important design for a school, and more than 60% of the subjects believed that the buildings on campus were a part of arts. The results also showed that female subjects had significantly different perceptions from male ones about art exhibition and buildings on campus. Moreover, the subjects from different programs had significantly different opinions about art exhibition and campus arts. Finally, the researchers drew a conclusion based on the results and provided some teaching and research implications for the future study.