Students will also examine skills, concepts, and strategies for teaching aesthetics and art criticism in elementary and secondary schools. Observation and participation in schools are required. Students will develop concepts about the nature of art history, skills in doing historical research, and skills, concepts, and strategies for teaching art history at the elementary and secondary levels. Observation and participation in schools are required. Definitions of art therapy, the development of the discipline, the exploration of special populations, human relations, and the related concepts in art education and art therapy.
Topics vary from term to term in response to new developments in art education.
Introduction to computer functions. Emphasis on visual literacy through practice and adaptation of computer processes to educational and art purposes. Students examine and develop curriculum in art, explore practical art classroom management and logistics strategies, and complete preparation of teaching resources to be used in student teaching and in their careers. Clinical experience teaching art in a public school assignment. Graduate Courses ARE 5245.