Art Education Major All Grade

(57 credits)

The Art Education program seeks to develop students’ capacities in becoming successful art educators by focusing both on general teaching and specific art education skills. Students gain a grounding in the historical, philosophical, and critical bases for viewing art and in the necessary skills, concepts, and technical proficiencies of producing art.

(ART) Core Curriculum:

(18 credits) The core curriculum is a prescribed program of study required of all studio art, art history, and art education majors and is basic to a student’s choice of an area of concentration.

ARTH 271 - Survey of Art History I 3 credits
ARTH 272 - Survey of Art History II 3 credits
ARTP 170 - Introduction to the Visual Arts 3 credits
ARTS 101 - Fundamentals of Drawing 3 credits
ARTS 102 - Fundamentals of Two-Dimensional Design and Color 3 credits
ARTS 104 - Fundamentals of Three-Dimensional Design 3 credits

Required Art Studio Courses (18 credits):

ARTS 210 - Introduction to Ceramics 3 credits
ARTS 215 - Fundamentals of Drawing II 3 credits
ARTS 230 - Introduction to Painting 3 credits
ARTS 240 - Introduction to Beginning Printmaking 3 credits
ARTS 245 - Introduction to Sculpture 3 credits
Select one of the following:
ARTD 220 - Introduction to Graphic Design 3 credits
ARTS 235 - Introduction to Photography 3 credits
ARTS 251 - Introduction to Digital Art 3 credits

Required Art Education Courses (15 credits):

ARTE 290 - Introduction to Art Education 3 credits
ARTE 391 - Secondary Art Education 3 credits
ARTE 392 - Elementary Art Education 3 credits
ARTE 491 - Visual Arts for Special Students 3 credits
ARTE 494 - Current Problems in Art Education 3 credits

Choose one from the following (3 credits):

ARTH 371 - Contemporary Art 3 credits
ARTH 479 - Modern Art: 1900-1970 3 credits

Electives (3 credits):

3 credits selected from the areas of studio art, art history, or graphic design.

Professional Education Courses taught in the Bayh College of Education (27 credits):

The following courses are not counted for the major.

CIMT 200 - Teaching I 2 credits
CIMT 400 - Teaching III 3 credits
CIMT 400L - Teaching III Practicum 1 credits
CIMT 401 - Student Teaching 11 credits
CIMT 402 - Teaching an Integrated Unit 1 credits
EDUC 368 - Reading in the Content Areas 3 credits
EPSY 202 - Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence 3 credits
EPSY 341 - Education in a Multicultural Society 3 credits