Art Education, M.A.

Admissions

Required Documents

  • Online Application through the Graduate School
  • Official Transcripts
  • 2 Letters of Recommendation (at least one must be from a professor)
  • Personal Statement
  • Curriculum Vitae/Resume
  • Teaching Certificate
  • Portfolio:  Please upload a digital portfolio of 20 images of recent work and an identifying list of works, as a single .pdf document

Note: Successful applicants to the graduate programs in Art Education typically have an undergraduate GPA of 3.00 or higher on a 4.00 scale. However, all parts of an application are carefully considered in admissions decisions.

Degree Requirements (33 Hours)

The M.A. degree in art education may be completed with a thesis or without a thesis.

The non-thesis option requires passing a written comprehensive exam and a minimum of 33 hours of graduate coursework:

Course Title Credits
Art Education12
Seminar in Art Education
Problems in the Teaching of Art
Issues and Trends in Art Education
Program Development in Art
Graduate Professional Education
Select 9 hours from the following:9
The Learning Experience
Developing as a Professional Educator
Ideas and Issues in Teaching
Action Research in Teaching
Action Research Capstone Seminar
Educating African-American Students
Equity Pedagogies in Teacher Education
Introduction to Diversity and the Curriculum
Principles of Curriculum Construction
Design and Development Tools I
Design and Development Tools II
Studio Art/Art History9
Visual Meaning
Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist Art
Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist Art
New Media Advanced: Mobile Platforms
Research and Practice in New Media Art: Mobile Platforms
Elective 3-4
Select one 3-4 graduate level education course
Total Credit Hours33-34

The thesis option requires passing a written comprehensive exam, a thesis defense, and a minimum of 33 hours of graduate coursework:

Course Title Credits
Art Education12
Seminar in Art Education
Problems in the Teaching of Art
Issues and Trends in Art Education
Program Development in Art
Electives
Select 12 hours from the following:12
The Learning Experience
Developing as a Professional Educator
Ideas and Issues in Teaching
Action Research in Teaching
Action Research Capstone Seminar
Educating African-American Students
Equity Pedagogies in Teacher Education
Introduction to Diversity and the Curriculum
Principles of Curriculum Construction
Design and Development Tools I
Design and Development Tools II
Visual Meaning
Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist Art
Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist Art
New Media Advanced: Mobile Platforms
Research and Practice in New Media Art: Mobile Platforms
Thesis Preparation9
Thesis Preparation
Total Credit Hours33