Art Education - Claflin University

Art Education from Claflin University is a Campus Bachelor Teaching degree that prepares you for a Education career. General requirements of the Department of Art All graduating studio art and digital design majors must complete a Senior Project, install a Senior Project Exhibition, and successfully pass a Senior Exit Examination. Art education majors must complete a Professional Clinical Practice Exhibition in addition to successfully passing all exams required by the School of Education. It is the responsibility of the student to initiate and organize these activities. Students must work closely with the Art Faculty so that these events can proceed according to schedule. Program for the Major in Art Education Specific Objectives The Teacher Education program offers instruction and experiences which will enable students to demonstrate the following in addition to the objectives set out above for the liberal arts program: 1. Possess the potential to inspire others and to excite the imagination of students, engendering a respect and desire for art and visual experiences; 2. Seek out, evaluate, and apply new ideas and developments in both art and education; 3. Maintain positive relationships with individuals of various social and ethnic groups, and empathize with students and colleagues of differing backgrounds; 4. Articulate and communicate the goals of an art program to pupils, colleagues, administrators and parents in an effective and professionally responsible manner; 5. Be familiar with the basic expressive, technical, procedural and organizational skills, and conceptual insights which can be developed through studio art and design experiences. Instruction will include traditional processes as well as newer technological developments in environmental and functional design fields. Make students emphatically aware of the all-important process of artistic creation from conceptualized image to finished art work; 6. Have an understanding of: the major styles and periods of art history, analytical methods, and theories of criticism; the development of past and contemporary art forms; contending philosophies of art; the fundamental and integral relationships of all these to the making of art; 7. Have an opportunity for advanced work in at least one or more studio and/or art application areas; 8. Have functional knowledge in such areas as the physics of light, chemistry of pigments, the chemical and thermal aspects of shaping materials, and the basic technologies involved in printmaking, photography, filmmaking, and video; 9. Have an understanding of child development and the identification and understanding of psychological principles of learning as they relate to art education; 10. Have an understanding of the philosophical and social foundation underlying art in education and the ability to express a rationale for personal attitudes and beliefs; 11. Have the ability to assess aptitudes, experiential backgrounds, and interests of individuals and groups of students, and to devise learning experiences to meet assessed needs; 12. Have knowledge of current methods and materials available in all fields and levels of art education; 13. Have a basic understanding of the principles and methods of developing curricula and the short and long-term instructional units that comprise them; 14. Have the ability to accept, amend, or reject methods and materials based on personal assessment of specific teaching situations; 15. Have an understanding of evaluative techniques and the ability to apply them in assessing both the progress of students and the objectives and procedures of the curriculum; 16. Have the ability to organize continuing study and to incorporate knowledge gained into self-evaluation and professional growth. Curriculum Summary for the Major in Art Education a. General Education - 45 b. Foundation Courses - 18 c. Required Art Education Courses - 30 d. Professional Education - 33 e. Art Elective - 3 129 Total Hours View more details on Claflin University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Teaching courses.