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  • 1.00 Credits

    1 credits This one-credit course offers students the opportunity for advanced, individualized study in grammar and mechanics, writing summaries and essays, vocabulary building and reading comprehension. Students will meet twice a week to practice skills introduced in class. This course is an elective open to all students who wish to improve their writing, professional communication, and literacy skills. It will be required for all art education students during (or preceding) the semester they intend to take the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure. Prerequisites: English Composition I and II Fulfills: Art Education Requirement
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 credits This introduction to the field of Art Education provides a foundation for work as an art teacher. Through papers and in-class participation, areas of cognitive growth and creative development are reviewed with an eye to understanding how they affect artistic development and the teaching of art. Current issues and trends in art education are explored, and other avenues for artists-as-educators (such as museum education, art therapy, and artists at work in the community) are discussed. The basics of curriculum theory and planning with a focus on the Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Frameworks are also addressed. Three site observations of art classes are required. Prerequisites: 30 Earned Credits Fulfills: Art Education I Requirement (Art Education Students) and Liberal Arts Elective
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 credits This studio-based course provides future art teachers an opportunity to work with the materials most often used with children, pre-K through 12 in classroom and community settings. Through in-class projects, a methods lab, written and studio assignments, students explore themes current in art education, including integrated learning, art and multi-cultural education and the development of critical and creative thinking as addressed in the Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Frameworks. As a part of this course students are required to do 15 hours of field experience observing art classes in a variety of settings. These 15 hours of field experience are applied toward the total 75 hours of pre-practicum experience required for Teacher Licensure in the state of Massachusetts. Prerequisites: Art Education I or Permission of Instructor Fulfills: Media, Forms and Ideas Requirement (Art Education Students) and Studio Elective
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 credits This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Art Education. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation. Prerequisites: Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic. Fulfills: Liberal Arts Elective
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 credits This course combines a weekly seminar with 60 hours of pre-practicum field experience (approximately 5 hours per week). Students examine art teaching and curriculum as they study methods of instruction and evaluation. They learn to write curriculum objectives, units and lesson plans with emphasis on Licensure Standards and the Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Frameworks. Field experience provides them with the opportunity to implement the skill they are developing. Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in Art Education I; Media, Forms and Ideas; Psychology requirement; LTT Elective and the Art Education Diversity Elective. Fulfills: Art Education II Requirements (Art Education Students) and Liberal Arts Elective.
  • 12.00 Credits

    12 credits Teaching Practicum - Student Teaching (Pre-K-8; 5-12) Students spend 300 on-site hours observing, assisting, and teaching with a Supervising Practitioner in elementary, middle or high school art classes. Skills of planning, management, communication, assessment, self-evaluation, and collaboration as addressed in Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks are developed and refined with the guidance of both the Supervising Practitioner and the Program Supervisor. Methods to adapt instruction for exceptional students are implemented and assessed. A minimum of three official evaluations with both the Supervising Practitioner and the Practicum Supervisor is required. This course is taken with Practicum Seminar. See below for prerequisites. Practicum Seminar in Art Education Student teachers meet with their Program Supervisors and in their peer groups to prepare for their roles as art teachers. Tasks set forth in the seminar enable students to adapt to the unique demands of each practicum site and to collaborate with their Supervising Practitioner in writing, planning, communication, and assessment. The Program Supervisor evaluates students formally in relation to Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and the Massachusetts state standards for professional educators. Issues of professional development, licensure, and preparation for job interviews are also addressed. A Practicum thesis exhibition is designed, planned and installed by the student teachers. Taken in conjunction with the Art Education Teaching Practicum. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts requires that the pre-practicum field experience be a minimum of 75 hours in schools with a variety of students including, but not limited to, special needs students as well as those of different gender, race, linguistic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Practicum requires 300 hours of on-site observing, assisting and teaching. Prerequisites: All Art Education course requirements completed, passing scores on the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure and acceptance by a Supervising Practitioner and practicum site. Fulfills: Practicum/Practicum Seminar Requirement (Art Education Students)
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 credits This course introduces students to a variety of theoretical, analytical and critical means for approaching art, through the study of examples of art and architecture from different cultures and historical periods. Students learn to observe attentively, to describe thoroughly and to analyze critically through directed in-class discussions and writing assignments. Topics may include: analysis of period styles; interpreting subject matter and symbolism; examining the social functions of art and art-making in various historical times and cultures; and evaluating the role of the historian and critic. Students must earn a grade of C- or better in this course to enter Art History II. Prerequisites: Fulfills: Art History I Requirement
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 credits Building on the fundamental concepts of Art History I, this course surveys the major period styles of the art of Western civilization from the renaissance period through the 20th century. Emphasis is placed on understanding the cultural contexts and on further practice of visual analysis and analytical writing. The course includes visits to area museums. Prerequisites: English Composition I and Art History I Fulfills: Art History II Requirement
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 credits This course examines the contributions of women to art from classical times to the present, with emphasis on the developments of recent decades. In addition to examining biographical and artistic aspects, the course includes analysis of the social, economical, historical, and political factors that have affected women artists and their work. Also considered are the types of images of women that appear in the history of art and their implications. Prerequisites: English Composition I and II, Art History I and II Fulfills: Art History Elective, or Liberal Arts Elective, or Humanities Elective; Art Education Diversity Requirement
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 credits This course is a survey of Italian art and architecture from the 14th through the 16th centuries. It includes a brief examination of Italian Mannerism and the contributions of the artists associated with the Renaissance in northern Europe. Prerequisites: English Composition I and II, Art History I and II Fulfills: Art History Elective, or Liberal Arts Elective, or Humanities Elective
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