Course Descriptions

ARE 2045 Introduction to Teaching Art
This course provides an overview of the art teaching field with particular emphases on rationales for teaching art, contemporary art teaching practices, community art experiences, and alternative career options. Students begin to engage in personal reflection and critical analysis of the teaching/learning process through journal-keeping, teacher portfolio development, writing reaction papers and by participating in group discussions of selected readings and field experiences in local public schools.

ART 2456 Computers in Art Education
This course is designed to introduce students to applications of computers in the field of art education. Emphasis is on the use of computer hardware and software for individual creative expression. The use of the Internet as a teaching and learning tool is also explored.

ARE 4242 Teaching Art: The Study of Practice
This course is designed to assist pre-service art teachers in developing confidence, knowledge and skills in the practice of teaching art in schools. Course topics include art curriculum planning, motivational strategies, artroom management, and alternative methods of evaluation in art.

ARE 4243 The Principles of Teaching Art
This course addresses the foundations of art teaching, including aesthetics, art criticism, art history, the psychology of art, child growth in art, the history of art teaching, and research in art education.

ARE 4244 Experiences in Teaching Art
Experience in teaching art to children, adolescents, and adults in the Saturday morning art school. Students will write lesson plans, analyze art expression problems of their students, analyze the learning process of students, and evaluate students.

ART 4314 Art Education for Elementary Schools
The purpose of this course is to prepare preservice classroom teachers in teach art in elementary schools. Course lectures and assignments focus on such topics as comprehensive art education, curricular integration, various art educational philosophies and theories, developmental theories in art, instructional strategies involving art production and dialogue, alternative assessment strategies, and the role and importance of art in the elementary school curriculum.

ART 4900 Teaching Art: Field Experience
Open to Art Education majors only.

ART 4940 Student Teaching in Art Education