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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course aims to expand the student awareness of the proliferation and pervasiveness of imagery, artifacts, and events in art and visual culture, and provides an introduction to those critical theories and practices that have framed 20th century understandings of visual art, design, and visual culture. Students are encouraged to use critical strategies to reflect on the relationship of contemporary art and visual culture to the construction of identity, the richness of global cultures, and the integrity of human-made environments. The course is writing-intensive, emphasizing the need for students to clearly articulate their ideas, using models from disciplines engaged in similar critiques.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is a study of exemplary teaching in art education. Case studies and model teaching will introduce students to instructional strategies practiced by experienced teachers in noteworthy K-12 art programs. Through lecture/discussion, students will examine how these practices relate to the style and personality of teachers, state and local standards, and the context of specific schools involved in the case studies. An emphasis will be placed upon specific teaching contexts and their applicability to other situations. 1-3 c.h., 1-3 s.h. Repeatable up to 9 s.h.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is a practical orientation to the teaching of art in a multicultural society through being an aide to an art teacher in a school situation. Students have opportunities to experience the adaptation of media and techniques for instruction in the classroom. Seminars, workshops, and individual conferences with the college instructor accompany the experience of the art classroom assistantship. Students are responsible for their own transportation. Students are expected to fulfill all the course requirements assigned in relationship to the number of credit hours. A minimum of 6 hours of work outside of the class is required per week.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This internship provides candidates already teaching art in private and charter schools with clinical experience in order to earn PA Visual Arts Certification PreK-12 while on the job. An internship provides the teacher candidate with opportunities to participate instructionally as the art teacher of record at their own school while being mentored by an experienced classroom teacher and university supervisor. The internship is the first of two internships taken in sequence that will provide the teacher candidate mentorship and supervision for an entire school year.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This internship provides candidates already teaching art in private and charter schools with clinical experience in order to earn PA Visual Arts Certification PreK-12 while on the job. An internship provides the teacher candidate with opportunities to participate instructionally as the art teacher of record at their own school while being mentored by an experienced classroom teacher and university supervisor. The internship is the second of two internships taken in sequence that will provide the teacher candidate mentorship and supervision for an entire school year.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Student teaching is the culminating experience of the Art Education certification program. It provides the student teacher with opportunities to observe professional art teachers on the advanced level and to participate instructionally in the art education programs of the schools. The student teaching semester is divided into two segments, one at the elementary level (K-6) and the other at the secondary level. These are interchangeable with the expectation of continued development of classroom management, teaching strategies, and instructional expertise. The student teacher is expected to plan and teach on both levels. The Practicum is a seminar, scheduled concurrently with the Clinical Experience; during the seminar, students discuss with the university supervisor teaching strategies, classroom management, application of theoretical models, and other pre-professional concerns.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Student teaching is the culminating experience of the Art Education certification program. It provides the student teacher with opportunities to observe professional art teachers on the advanced level and to participate instructionally in the art education programs of the schools. The student teaching semester is divided into two segments, one at the elementary level (K-6) and the other at the secondary level. These are interchangeable with the expectation of continued development of classroom management, teaching strategies, and instructional expertise. The student teacher is expected to plan and teach on both levels. The Practicum is a seminar, scheduled concurrently with the Clinical Experience; during the seminar, students discuss with the university supervisor teaching strategies, classroom management, application of theoretical models, and other pre-professional concerns.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Advanced studio work in drawing is directed towards furthering self discipline in developing personal graphic statements. (This course is also offered under the FINE 501 designation.) Repeatable up to 12 credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Visual expression in a variety of printmaking techniques are explored. Among the techniques investigated are relief, intaglio, planographic and transographic methods. Historical and contemporary attitudes toward the multiple as an original work of art are studied. (This course is also offered under the FINE 502 designation.) Repeatable up to 12 credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides for experimentation with painting media, with emphasis upon development of individual style. (This course is also offered under the FINE 503 designation.) Repeatable up to 12 credits.
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