Visual Arts Education (BA)
"Reminant"
painting
- Emily Mills
Give future generations of artists tools to express themselves in creative, fulfilling ways.
Develop your own skills in ceramic arts, drawing, fiber arts, painting, photography, and more as you are equipped to teach art to learners in preschool through grade 12.
Completing this program will earn you a bachelor of science in visual arts education and allow you to sit for multi-age teacher licensure exams.
Spotlight
"(Art students) have a nice idealism that we sometimes lose in the work world."
- Clare Murray Adams
Professor of Art
The major in Visual Arts Education consists of the following:
32 hours in the following art core:
ART 113 - Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice
ART 122 - Art History I: Ancient, Medieval, and Non-European
Art
ART 124 - Art History II: Renaissance to the Present
ART 212 - Drawing I
ART 232 - Design I: 2D
ART 251 - Painting I
ART 261 - Introduction to Photography
ART 303 - Design II: 3D
ART 385 - Printmaking
ART 430 - Senior Exhibit/Portfolio
ART 460 - Issues in Contemporary Art
6 hours of visual art education courses:
ART 311 - Art for Early and Middle Childhood Education
ART 421 - Teaching Art in the Secondary School
38 hours of the following professional education courses:
EDUC 112 - Foundations of Education
EDUC 232 - Psychology of Human Learning
EDUC 270 - Expressive Arts for Young Children
EDUC 312 - Principles of Secondary School Instruction
EDUC 357 - Content Reading Strategies
EDUC 262 - Instructional Technology
EDUC 405 - Applied Instructional Technology
EDUC 415 - Assessment in Education
EDUC 460 - Student Teaching Seminar
EDUC 495 - Multi-Age (PreK-12) Student Teaching
SPED 243 - Inclusion and the Schools
9 hours in an emphasis area:
Ceramics:
ART 375 - Ceramics I
ART 376 - Ceramics II
ART 476 - Ceramics III
Drawing:
ART 312 - Drawing II
ART 342 - Life Drawing
ART 442 - Advanced Drawing
Fiber Arts:
ART 381 - Fiber Arts I: General
ART 382 - Fiber Arts II
ART 483 - Fiber Arts III
Graphics:
ART 271 - Graphics I: Visual Design
ART 321 - Graphics II: Typography
ART 323 - Graphics III: Computer-Assisted Design
Painting:
ART 351 - Oil/Acrylic Painting II
ART 451 - Oil/Acrylic Painting III
ART 452 - Advanced Painting
Photography:
ART 363 - Advanced Photography
ART 461 - Fine Art Photography I
ART 462 - Fine Art Photography II
6 hours in studio electives:
Two additional studio courses which are not in the student’s own area of emphasis and not in the art core
