Course Descriptions
Creative Art Activities in the Elementary Classroom
ARTED-GE 2002 30 hours: 2 points
Planning and organizing classroom experiences in creative art; developing aesthetic, expressive possibilities in all of children’s learning. Individual and group studio experience, observation, and reading.
Supervised Student Teaching in Art in Elementary Schools
ARTED-GE 2901 A minimum of 20 days; 180 hours: 3 points
Registration by permission of program coordinator. Enrollment limited to art education majors.
Supervised student teaching in elementary classroom settings, followed by scheduled conference with field supervisor. Seminar addresses formal and informal methods of assessing student learning and develops skills to analyze information gathered through assessment in order to plan and or modify their teaching practices. Through a systematic approach such as action research, students reflect on and analyze their own teaching practices and develop a portfolio of their student teaching experience, thereby learning to be reflective practitioners.
Supervised Student Teaching in Art in Secondary Schools
ARTED-GE 2902 A minimum of 20 days; 180 hours: 3 points
Registration by permission of program coordinator. Enrollment limited to art education majors.
Supervised student teaching in secondary classroom settings, grades 7 to 12, followed by scheduled conference with field supervisor. Seminar addresses formal and informal methods of assessing student learning and develops skills to analyze information gathered through assessment in order to plan and or modify their teaching practices. Through a systematic approach such as action research, students reflect on and analyze their own teaching practices and develop a portfolio of their student-teaching experience, thereby learning to be reflective practitioners.
Research in Art Education
ARTED-GE 2299 30 hours: 2 points
Understanding research as disciplined inquiry by focusing on theoretical concepts, primary issues, and techniques of research in art education with specific emphasis on qualitative research methods. Examinations of the social, political, philosophical, and ethical issues involved in doing research.
Current Issues in Art Education
ARTED-GE 2070 30 hours: 3 points
Close critical examination of art education and its relationship to social, cultural, economic, and political processes based on an introduction to critical theory. Understanding the transformation in contemporary art and its challenges to notions of originality, creativity, and aesthetic formalism in order to envision ways of rethinking art education curricula and pedagogy in schools, museums, and other institutional art programs.
School Art: Issues in Pedagogy and Curriculum I
ARTED-GE 2271 60 hours (45 hours fieldwork): 3 points.
School Art is a two-part introductory art education course.
Understanding art pedagogy in preschools and elementary schools as ‘situated practice’ that is both teaching and learning and takes place within particular historical and social contexts. Developing knowledge and skills to plan, organize, and facilitate meaningful art curricula for students encompassing a range of needs and abilities, with attention to learning processes, motivation, communication, classroom management and the interrelationship of art to speaking, critical thinking, writing, reading, and other curricular subjects.
School Art: Issues in Pedagogy and Curriculum II
ARTED-GE 2272 60 hours (45 hours fieldwork): 3 points
School Art is a two-part introductory art education course.
Integration of art education theory and practice in secondary school art classrooms that address the question of the role of art in our democratic society. Developing socially and culturally relevant curricula. Researching and planning appropriate instructional strategies that address student interests and issues, including motivation and classroom management. Understanding the interconnection between art and writing, critical thinking, listening, speaking, reading, and other subject areas such as history and social studies.
Contemporary Art and Critical Pedagogy: Identity, Representation, and Multiculturalism
ARTED-GE 2015 45 hours: 3 points
This course addresses philosophical, historical, and sociopolitical contexts of multiculturalism in the United States, with an emphasis on relationship to critical pedagogy and contemporary art practices. Current ideas about representation and identity are considered specifically in relation to a critique of mainstream notions of multiculturalism and art. Topics may include the history of multiculturalism. The course addresses pedagogy and curriculum in a variety of educational settings, including schools, museums, and alternative spaces.
Art Education in Alternative Settings: Museums, Community-Based Organizations, and Experimental Spaces
ARTED-GE 2276 45 hours (30 hours fieldwork): 3 points
This course examines theoretical issues and educational practices as they are implemented in non-school settings, specifically museums, alternative arts venues, and community-based organizations. The course provides an introduction to a range of art education in programs in the above settings. Pedagogical theories relevant to the implementation of art education in programs in these settings are discussed. Course topics include exploration of traditional and innovative modes of teaching art, the history of museums, and the emergence and role of contemporary community-based organizations and alternative art venues in art education.
Media Literacy and Art in the Classroom
ARTED-GE 2277 45 hours: 3 points
This course focuses on enhancing classroom practice through exploration of the uses of media and technology. The course addresses the development of media literacy skills, with an added focus on developing methods to utilize media as a tool to enhance content in the art classroom. The potential of media and technology to assist in the development of innovative curricula in all content areas is examined, with attention to interdisciplinary curricula integrating the arts. There is a substantial lab component to this course, providing extensive hands-on experience in available technologies. Additional topics include the changing classroom in the information age; visual literacy; the role of media technologies for communication in a diverse, democratic society; authenticity and reproduction; inquiry-based learning and technology.