Art education

College of Education and Human Development
Curriculum & Instruction

Fall 2009: CI 5008—Theory and Practice of Teaching Art in Elementary Schools

Art concepts, skills, and processes appropriate for elementary school. Methods of art instruction. Children's production of/responses to art.

Fall 2009: CI 5050—Issues in Art Education

Issues/trends, current practices, recent research.

Fall 2009: CI 5065—Improving Art Programs in the Schools

Issues of art instruction, including teaching methods and evaluation, philosophical frameworks of pedagogy, and institutional issues concerning art programs in primary and secondary schools; social and cultural structures of schooling, practical issues of teaching art.

Fall 2009: CI 5069—Curriculum Innovations in Art Education

Study and analysis of innovations; evaluation of materials for teaching units and projects.

Fall 2009: CI 5075—The Social and Historical Foundations of Art Education

Issues of culture in education; examination of various forms of art as representations of knowledge, belief, and cultural capital. Epistemology, the meaning of function, and the conceptual location of visual culture in education and general culture. Seminar discussions include problems of cross-cultural and multicultural art education.

Fall 2009: CI 5096—Art Education: Practicum

Issues of art instruction, including teaching methods and evaluation, philosophical frameworks of pedagogy, and institutional issues concerning art programs in primary and secondary schools. Practicum requiring students to work in a public school setting.

Fall 2009: CI 8095—Problems: Art Education

Independent research under faculty guidance; may include advanced studio practice and educational issues requiring a research methodology.