MEd in Curriculum and Instruction - Concentration: Art Education

Note: As part of your ASTL application, a visual arts portfolio must be submitted. At the Admissions Session, please provide a CD portfolio (or link to an online portfolio ready for viewing.) This portfolio should include student work accomplished under your direction, as well as a selection of your own in your area of expertise and concentration, along with an artist’s statement about your work.

The 18 credit Art Education Concentration is designed for art teachers with current licensure in Art PK-12. It consists of 6 required courses that address contemporary professional development content areas in art education.

Core Courses (12 credits)

Required for all ASTL M.Ed. students

EDUC 606: Education and Culture (3 credit hours)
EDUC 612: Inquiry into Practice (2 credit hours)
EDUC 613: How Students Learn (3 credit hours)
EDUC 614: Designing and Assessing Teaching and Learning (2 credit hours)
EDUC 615: Educational Change (2 credit hours)

Concentration Courses (18 credits)

AVT 605: Issues and Research in Art Education (3 credit hours)
EDEP 601: Creativity and Cognition in the Arts and Media (3 credit hours)
AVT 694: Advanced Studies in Teaching Critical Response to Art, PK-12 (3 credit hours)
AVT 615: Technology for Art Teachers (3 credit hours)
AVT 697: Seminar: Advanced Strategies and Curricular Innovations in the Visual Arts (2 credit hours)

Select one studio course from below:

AVT 667: Two Dimensional Artmaking: Form, Theme, and Context (4 credit hours)
AVT 668: Three-Dimensional Artmaking Across Cultures (4 credit hours)
AVT 669: 4-Dimensional Artmaking: Technology and New Media (4 credit hours)

ART EDUCATION CONCENTRATION FORM WITHOUT CORE
ART EDUCATION CONCENTRATION FORM WITH CORE
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Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning

MEd in Curriculum and Instruction - Concentration: Art Education

Core Courses (12 credits)

Concentration Courses (18 credits)

Select one studio course from below: