30-34 Total Credits Required
The MA in Art, Education, and Community Practice provides a hands-on and theoretical investigation through 3 core modules leading to a capstone project. You will take one required foundational course in each program module and then choose electives from across the university to customize their degree focus and experiences.
Requirements
12-13 Credits
ARTCR-GE 2451
3 - 4 Credits
ARTED-GE 2070
3 - 4 Credits
ARTED-GE 2301
1 - 3 Credits
ARTCR-GE 2461
ART-GE 2102
2 Credits
Guided Electives
18-21 Credits
Students take one required foundational course in each program module and then choose electives from across the university in each module to customize their degree focus and experiences.
This module addresses the expanding field of socially engaged art in the US and internationally: its history, current practices, and conceptual understandings of art, politics, public sphere, activism, and democracy. Students learn first-hand from socially engaged artists locally and globally.
Foundational Course
ARTCR-GE 2459
3 - 6 Credits
Providing a firm grounding in popular education and social justice education that is inspired by Paulo Freire, students explore the educational function of socially engaged art: learning about critical pedagogy in public, community-based, informal, and virtual/media-based contexts, both locally and globally.
Foundational Course
ARTED-GE 2070
3 - 4 Credits
Overlaying the artistic and educational modules is a focus on social activism and community engagement that explores the history, politics, and ethics of working in local, global, and virtual contexts. Within this module students learn about methods, tactics, and strategies of engagement from social movements and community organizing to create artistic interventions in public and community spaces.
Foundational Course
ARTCR-GE 2461
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