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- HER-M 220 Art Education and New Media in the 21st Century (3 cr.) This course will provide Art Education students with a theoretical and practical framework for integrating new media into teaching and learning in Art Education. Examples of new media will be examined and how they are reshaping teaching, and learning in Art Education. This course includes a significant lab component.
- HER-M 311 Art Education Studio Survey (3 cr.) A course intended to ensure broad knowledge of the type and scope of media likely to be encountered in elementary and secondary art programs with consideration of inclusion students. Required for all art education majors.
- HER-M 371 Foundations of Art Education (3 cr.) Historical, sociological and philosophical foundations of art education; curriculum development; individualized and interdisciplinary learning; instructing K-12 audiences; K-12 school organization; and general processes and practices of teaching art including the creative problem solving process. School and museum field experiences included.
- HER-M 400 Laboratory/Field Experience: Elementary School (0-3 cr.) C: M471. Supervised laboratory or field experience in elementary school(s).
- HER-M 401 Laboratory/Field Experience: Secondary School (0-3 cr.) C: M473. Supervised laboratory or field experience in secondary school(s).
- HER-M 472 Teaching Art/Elementary School (3 cr.) Develops understanding and appreciation of teaching, with emphasis on teaching in the elementary schools. Includes curriculum and lesson planning, organization of materials and ideas, and techniques of classroom management.
- HER-M 473 Teaching Art: Secondary Schools (3 cr.) P: M371 C: M401 This course is designed to develop an understanding for teaching art in secondary school settings. Readings and discussions about characteristics of secondary art education, curriculum development, teaching strategies, and classroom management will be emphasized. Observations of middle school and high school art classes and teaching a curriculum art unit will be part of the practicum component.
- HER-Z 200 The Artist Within: Art Making for Teachers (3 cr.) Art making for the art novice/general educator, nurturing the artist within. Introspective, creative meaning making, exploring big ideas through introductory materials and processes in drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and digital printing. Instruction in adaptations for general classroom use. Studio lab. Will not count for fine arts or art education majors.
- HER-Z 508 Issues in Art Education (3 cr.) This course examines contemporary issues concerned with art and education. Art Education literature will be examined that pertains to: 1) Recent Approaches to Art Education, 2) Modernism and Postmodernism, 3) Cultural Identities and Multicultural and Global Education, 4) Visual Culture and New Technologies, 5) Identity and Gender Issues, 6) Interdisciplinary study, Learning Design, Creative Process, Semiotics, and other current developments in contemporary art and education. In this class students consider diverse perspectives and develop key questions and responses to important issues in the field.
- HER-Z 511 Nonstudio Approaches to Art Instruction (3 cr.) Exploration of critical approaches to newer media, including film, video, and television, directed toward an art context. Emphasis on the development of critical skills and approaches to new media in the classroom.
- HER-Z 512 Improving Studio Instruction in Art (3 cr.) Designed to examine major directions in art and the points of view of professional artists in order to develop new approaches to elementary and secondary art instruction.
- HER-Z 513 Special Topics in Art Education (1-3 cr.) A variable topic course designed to cover current issues in art curriculum and assessment. Designed for the K-12 art specialist.