Art Education, M.A.
Admissions
- This program is not a teacher certification program and is designed primarily for working art teachers.
Required Documents
- Online Application through the Graduate School
- Official Transcripts
- 2 Letters of Recommendation (it is preferable that one be from a professor)
- Personal Statement
- Curriculum Vitae/Resume
- Teaching Certificate (preferred, but not required)
- Portfolio: Please upload a digital portfolio of 20 images of recent work and an identifying list of works, as a single .pdf document. You may want to include up to five images of students’ artwork from various lesson plans or projects in your portfolio.
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 (30 Hours)
The M.A. degree in art education requires passing a written comprehensive exam and a minimum of 30 hours of graduate coursework:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Art Education | ||
| ARTE 701 | Seminar in Art Education | 3 |
| ARTE 702 | Problems in the Teaching of Art | 3 |
| ARTE 703 | Issues and Trends in Art Education | 3 |
| ARTE 705 | Program Development in Art | 3 |
| 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 | ||
Or other courses in consultation with an advisor | ||
| Art-Related Areas | ||
| ARTS 500 | Visual Meaning | 4 |
| ARTH 747 | Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist Art | 3 |
| or ARTH 547 | Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist Art | |
| FAME 577 | Mobile Platforms | 3 |
| or FAME 777 | Mobile Platforms | |
| Total Credit Hours | 31 | |