Art Education Undergraduate Overview

You don't have to choose between art and education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). We believe great artists make great teachers.

The interdisciplinary bachelor of fine arts curriculum for undergraduates at SAIC encourages students to prepare for life as boundary-crossing 21st-century artists. While completing an undergraduate art degree, students can also become boundary-crossing 21st-century teachers.

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Students apply to the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education (BFAAE) program in the spring of the sophomore year. While continuing their coursework to develop their artistic practices, students in the program also develop their teaching practices based on contemporary artmaking. BFAAE students graduate with the skills (and license) to teach art, design, and new media in public schools and other settings.  

The Art Education faculty are nationally and internationally known artists and scholars whose own work models a commitment to new forms of art education in which students and teachers creatively and critically investigate today’s issues and make art and culture that is meaningful and transformative for themselves and their communities.

Art Education Courses for Studio Majors and Students Enrolled in Other Programs

Students pursuing bachelor of fine arts degrees in other areas also take Art Education courses to support their work as emerging artists interested in community arts practices, socially engaged art, and teaching artists in schools or museums.

Courses include:

  • Doing Democracy
  • Cultural Approaches to Production
  • Art in the Community

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education

The BFAAE program educates students to become teachers of art, design, and visual culture while continuing to strengthen their own artmaking practices. The Art Education community supports students in becoming engaged and reflective teacher artists whose pedagogical work fosters the emergence of more just and joyous individuals and societies.

The program fulfills requirements to become a licensed PK-12 Visual Arts teacher in the State of Illinois. SAIC's teacher preparation coursework contributes to (and may meet) the teacher licensure requirements for other states and countries. See the Teacher Licensure Disclosures information found at the link below.

BFAAE students have a high rate of securing well-paying teaching jobs upon graduation. (Starting pay for an art teacher in the Chicago Public Schools is $50,000+) The Art Education Department receives more requests for referrals of recent graduates than we can meet. Our graduates build art education careers in schools and other educational settings throughout the United States.

BFAAE Program Guide 2024-25
*See the Testing Requirements section of this page for an update from the ISBE regarding the edTPA

Sample BFAAE Student Agreement 2023

Teacher Licensure Disclosures [PDF]

Below are links to the SAIC Department of Art Education's recent Title II reports. The following information is provided in accordance with Title II of the Higher Education Act, section 207(f)(2):

Admissions Requirements and Curriculum

  • You must meet the following criteria to gain admission to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Art Education program:

    1. Admission to SAIC's undergraduate division.
    2. Consultation and transcript analysis with the department's Licensure Specialist before or during the first semester of sophomore year.
    3. Submission of a departmental application during the second semester of sophomore year. Application must be submitted by the first Monday in March for admission in the spring semester to begin coursework in the first semester of junior year. 
    4. Teacher candidates begin the art education program during the first semester of their junior year. The BFA in Art Education program is a four-semester sequence. For a comprehensive list of program requirements, please refer to the BFAAE Program Guide.

    BFAAE Application Requirements

    • BFAAE Application Form 
    • Create an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) system account called ELIS. Directions to be provided by the Licensure Specialist in the invitation email.
    • Resume (1-2 pages) Include teaching experiences, other work experiences, exhibitions and other art experiences, awards and honors, and list of competencies in media, equipment, and software. It will be reviewed during your interview with the BFAAE Director so you can receive feedback prior to submission by the application deadline. Contact SAIC CAPX for resume assistance.
    • Portfolio of 12-20 artworks in digital format (images of 2D and 3D work as well as time-based works). Some applicants may have fewer examples of artwork to include due to the timing of the application or if they are a transfer student. Images of 2D and 3D work as well as time-based work may be included. Examples of artwork should demonstrate proficiency in a range of different media and materials, including digital proficiency, as well as show the current focus of your artistic practice and conceptual interests. Prepare your portfolio as a sequence of images in a PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides file. Devote one slide to each artwork/video. If you need to include multiple images for the same piece of artwork you may fit them to one slide if possible. Otherwise, multiple slides may be included to show different features of the artwork if necessary. Each artwork should be labeled with the following information on the slide with the image: Title of work, Date of work, Medium, Materials used, Dimensions or duration.
    • Artist Statement (300-500 words) Provide context for the artwork included in your portfolio by discussing the themes and theories which inform your artistic practice. Elaborate upon the artistic, social, political, or personal relevance of your artwork as well as its material, conceptual and formal attributes.
    • Teacher Mission Statement (300-500 words) Explain why you want to teach art. 
    • One Recommendation: Use the Letter of Reference form included in Application & Instructions packet.  The Letter of Reference form must be submitted by email (by recommender) by the first Monday in March to the BFAAE Director. (See Letter of Reference Form for details.)

    For a comprehensive list of program requirements, please refer to the BFAAE Program Guide.

    Note: Completion of art education program prerequisites does NOT guarantee admission to the teacher preparation program.

  • SAIC’s BFAAE (Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education) program educates undergraduate students (teacher candidates) for teaching art, design, and new media in elementary and secondary schools. Through this 126-credit hour program (the same number required for other BFAs), students become creative, critical and reflective teachers of contemporary art and culture while fulfilling the current State of Illinois requirements for PK–12 Visual Arts licensure. The BFAAE is designed to be a full-time program completed during the final two years of earning an undergraduate degree.

    Coursework in the BFAAE program balances artmaking and learning about the theory and practice of education with experiences of teaching in a wide range of school settings. All education coursework is arts-focused, taught by faculty who combine expertise in art and cultural theory with deep knowledge of teaching. BFAAE teacher candidates continue to take Studio, Art History, and Liberal Arts courses while working toward their teaching degree.

    Interwoven throughout their art and education coursework, teacher candidates experience teaching in elementary and secondary schools in the Chicago area. Teacher candidates observe in schools and other educational settings (such as Local School Council and School Board meetings), design and teach short projects during visits to schools as part of their education coursework, and participate in seven-week Apprentice Teaching placements at the elementary and secondary levels. BFAAE coursework and teaching experiences prepare teacher candidates to work with English Language Learners, to support students in reading in their content area, and to differentiate instruction for students with a wide range of abilities and disabilities.

    BFAAE Curriculum Overview: Students beginning BFAAE coursework in Fall 2021

    STUDIO

    60 Credit Hours  

    • Drawing (6)
    • Contemporary Practices Core Studio Practice (6)
    • Contemporary Practices Research Studio I (3)
    • Contemporary Practices Research Studio II (3)
    • Painting (3)
    • Printmaking (3)
    • Ceramics OR Sculpture (3)
    • Sophomore Seminar (SOPHSEM-SPINE) (3)
    • Practices of Art and Design Education in Schools and Community: Teens and Adults, ARTED 3900 (Professional Practice-SPINE) (3)
    • Cultural Approaches to Production, ARTED 4100 (3)
    • Studio Electives* (24)

    *Studio courses must include a minimum of 12 credits of 3000 or 4000 level courses.

     

    ART HISTORY

    12 

    • ARTHI 1001 World Cultures and Civilizations: Pre-History to 19th (3)
    • ARTHI 1002 Survey of Modern to Contemporary Art and Architecture (3)
    • Global Comparative Art History or Global Comparative Visual and Critical Studies (VCS) (3)
    • Art History or VCS Course: Additional elective (3)

     

    LIBERAL ARTS

    30

    • English (6)
    • Natural Science (3)
    • Math (or another Natural Science) (3)
    • Social Science (6)
    • Humanities (6)
    • Doing Democracy: Schooling in the Anthropocene, ARTED 3125 (3)
    • Becoming Human: Evolving Conceptions of Human Development, ARTED 3021 (3)

     

    ART EDUCATION

    18  

    • Practices of Art and Design in Schools and Communities: 

    Children and Youth (3)

    • Practicum: Elementary and Secondary Experiences, ARTED 4390 (3)
    • Apprentice Teaching (Capstone), ARTED 4900 (12)

     

    TOTAL CREDIT HOURS

    120

Qualifying for Teaching Experiences in Schools

Teacher candidates complete 550 hours of preclinical (during core Art Education courses and Practicum) and clinical (during Apprentice Teaching) teaching experiences under the supervision of a mentor teacher in a school setting and a SAIC Art Education Faculty Supervisor.

During the initial BFAAE orientation, teacher candidates will be given information on how to complete the Chicago Public School (CPS) Fingerprint-based background check. If the results of the teacher candidate’s background check do not meet the Chicago Public School district’s standards, the candidate cannot continue in the BFAAE program.

Candidates teaching in schools are considered mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) when observing or teaching in school settings. Candidates must complete the Illinois Department of Human Services Mandated Child Abuse Reporter on-line training and have a record of their completed training on file in the SAIC Licensure Office at the beginning of their teacher preparation coursework (before visiting schools).

Teacher Licensure Requirements

SAIC's BFAAE teacher preparation program is approved by the Illinois State Board of Education. The BFAAE degree meets the current requirements for the State of Illinois PK-12 Visual Arts Professional Educator License. SAIC's teacher preparation coursework contributes to (and may meet) the teacher licensure requirements for other states and countries. When requested, the SAIC Licensure Specialist works with graduating teacher candidates to identify steps to investigate how to become licensed in other places.

The State of Illinois Board of Education testing, assessment, and coursework requirements periodically change. As a result, candidates for Illinois licensure may be required to complete a different set of courses, tests, and/or assessments than those noted above if they delay graduation and licensure.

Teacher candidates must successfully complete all of their program coursework, and meet ISBE mandated tests before recommendation for licensure.

Testing Requirements

There are two tests that the Illinois State Board of Education requires teacher preparation candidates to complete and pass during and upon completion of a teacher preparation program. It is important to understand that these tests are mandated by the State of Illinois. The SAIC Department of Art Education is obligated to ensure all candidates have met these legal requirements before recommending the candidate for licensure.

Test 1: ILTS Visual Arts Content Area Test (214)To be completed and passed for licensure entitlement to apply for Illinois licensure by state law.Test scores are valid indefinitely.
Test 2: edTPA Clinical Practice AssessmentTo be completed and passed during the Apprentice Teaching semester. By state law, must be passed before conferring Illinois licensure. See testing information in appendix or contact the Licensure Specialist.*Definitive information on the period of validity of an edTPA score is unknown at this time. Check with SAIC Licensure Specialist.

For information on the current scores needed to meet ISBE requirements, see the BFAAE Program Guide on this SAIC Art Education website or contact the SAIC Art Education Licensure Specialist.

*The Illinois State Board of Education has temporarily removed the requirement of passing the edTPA for teacher licensure. Please review the edTPA Addendum at the link below for more information

edTPA Addendum-ISBE Testing Change August 2023

Courses

Title Catalog Instructor Schedule

Description

This course asks the question, `How can artists cross the street without leaving their art behind?? This class hopes to raise issues of citizenship, creativity, collaboration, community, environment, and the changing roles of artists at the end of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first. Students study historical and contemporary examples of how artists have found the time, space, and resources to do and present their work, and how they make alliances with other artists and other communities to achieve professional, cultural, and political goals. Students help plan curricular innovations at SAIC and participate in related activities such as visiting artists programming. They explore the possibility, in part through on-site visits, of establishing or strengthening ties between SAIC and various communities throughout Chicago. Students further develop course themes through substantial written assignments and through applications of these ideas in their studio practice. The goal of the course is to give students the motivation, knowledge, and tools to take an active role as citizens in a multicultural democratic society.

Class Number

1090

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Area of Study

Community & Social Engagement, Public Space, Site, Landscape, Art/Design and Politics

Location

Sharp 403

Description

Relating contemporary and traditional artmaking approaches and culturally responsive pedagogy with curriculum, project, and instructional design methods, this course provides prospective teachers and teaching artists with knowledge and skills needed to structure learning experiences through which children and youth in elementary schools, middle schools and community settings enhance their creativity, develop technical skills, understand a range of artmaking practices, make personally meaningful works, and explore big ideas. Course participants will structure teaching plans that identify students¿ prior knowledge, scaffold learning, use multiple teaching and learning strategies to promote student engagement and differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students. They will learn to articulate clear and verifiable core learning objectives, select relevant national and state standards and design assessments that capture essential student learning without standardizing students¿ artworks. Teacher reflection based on critique, student input and assessment data will be used in an iterative process of editing and redesigning curriculum. Connecting visual and verbal literacies, prospective teachers will make use of reading, writing and speaking activities that engage students in interpreting art and analyzing visual culture as well as using picture books as a source of inspiration for their personal storytelling and artmaking. Teachers will learn to select and/or develop reading level-appropriate art and culture readings to support learning.

Studying a range of art education practices will provide teacher candidates with theoretical perspectives from which to build their own unique pedagogical approaches. Readings include works by Maria Montessori, Viktor Lowenfeld, Anne Thulson, Lisa Delpit, Vivian Paley, and Sonia Nieto as well as overviews of Reggio Emelia, Teaching for Social Justice, Teaching for Artistic Behavior, Studio Habits, Visual Thinking Strategies and Principles of Possibility

Course assignments will include readings and discussion responses and researching artists, artmaking approaches and pedagogical practices as well as writing project and lesson plans accompanied by teacher artwork examples, image presentations, readings, assessments, and other instructional materials, as well as documenting plans and student artworks. Participants will teach small groups of students in elementary schools with English Language Learners.

All student must complete and pass Chicago Public Schools Background Check.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to junior BFAAE students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

1085

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 409

Description

Relating contemporary and traditional artmaking approaches and culturally responsive pedagogy with curriculum, project, and instructional design methods, this course provides prospective teachers and teaching artists with knowledge and skills needed to structure learning experiences through which children and youth in elementary schools, middle schools and community settings enhance their creativity, develop technical skills, understand a range of artmaking practices, make personally meaningful works, and explore big ideas. Course participants will structure teaching plans that identify students¿ prior knowledge, scaffold learning, use multiple teaching and learning strategies to promote student engagement and differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students. They will learn to articulate clear and verifiable core learning objectives, select relevant national and state standards and design assessments that capture essential student learning without standardizing students¿ artworks. Teacher reflection based on critique, student input and assessment data will be used in an iterative process of editing and redesigning curriculum. Connecting visual and verbal literacies, prospective teachers will make use of reading, writing and speaking activities that engage students in interpreting art and analyzing visual culture as well as using picture books as a source of inspiration for their personal storytelling and artmaking. Teachers will learn to select and/or develop reading level-appropriate art and culture readings to support learning.

Studying a range of art education practices will provide teacher candidates with theoretical perspectives from which to build their own unique pedagogical approaches. Readings include works by Maria Montessori, Viktor Lowenfeld, Anne Thulson, Lisa Delpit, Vivian Paley, and Sonia Nieto as well as overviews of Reggio Emelia, Teaching for Social Justice, Teaching for Artistic Behavior, Studio Habits, Visual Thinking Strategies and Principles of Possibility

Course assignments will include readings and discussion responses and researching artists, artmaking approaches and pedagogical practices as well as writing project and lesson plans accompanied by teacher artwork examples, image presentations, readings, assessments, and other instructional materials, as well as documenting plans and student artworks. Participants will teach small groups of students in elementary schools with English Language Learners.

All student must complete and pass Chicago Public Schools Background Check.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to junior BFAAE students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

1088

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 402

Description

In the work of becoming and being an educator, it is necessary and important to comprehend the evolving ways human development is understood, engaged, and implicated in the teaching of children, adolescents and adults. Humans are, to put it simply, different. And it is these differences that present opportunities and challenges in teaching and learning. This course offers an interdisciplinary investigation into evolving conceptions of human development, including, but not limited to, psychological, legal, historical, and sociological frameworks. Additionally, students will explore the histories of childhood as they impact and have impacted the material culture of schools and school design.

Investigating evolving conceptions of human development will provide teacher candidates with interdisciplinary perspectives to build their own understanding of students as subjects in formation. This includes gaining theoretical, historical, and pedagogical knowledge on a range of developmental issues in education. Readings include works by John Dewey, W.E.B. DuBois, Tom Shakespeare, Cris Mayo, Deborah Britzman, Stephen Vassallo, Alexandra Lange, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Maria Montessori as well as overviews of Disability, Race Conscious, and Queer Theories in education.

Course work includes an essay questioning & responding to human development, an analysis of childhood development as illustrated in children's literature, an interpretation of adolescence as represented through short films, along with a midterm and final project documenting the work of learning throughout the semester.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to junior BFAAE students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

1084

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 403

Description

In the work of becoming and being an educator, it is necessary and important to comprehend the evolving ways human development is understood, engaged, and implicated in the teaching of children, adolescents and adults. Humans are, to put it simply, different. And it is these differences that present opportunities and challenges in teaching and learning. This course offers an interdisciplinary investigation into evolving conceptions of human development, including, but not limited to, psychological, legal, historical, and sociological frameworks. Additionally, students will explore the histories of childhood as they impact and have impacted the material culture of schools and school design.

Investigating evolving conceptions of human development will provide teacher candidates with interdisciplinary perspectives to build their own understanding of students as subjects in formation. This includes gaining theoretical, historical, and pedagogical knowledge on a range of developmental issues in education. Readings include works by John Dewey, W.E.B. DuBois, Tom Shakespeare, Cris Mayo, Deborah Britzman, Stephen Vassallo, Alexandra Lange, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Maria Montessori as well as overviews of Disability, Race Conscious, and Queer Theories in education.

Course work includes an essay questioning & responding to human development, an analysis of childhood development as illustrated in children's literature, an interpretation of adolescence as represented through short films, along with a midterm and final project documenting the work of learning throughout the semester.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to junior BFAAE students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

1089

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 403

Description

This collaborative, community-based course is centered around The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project, an ongoing partnership between Center on Halsted and SAIC. Classes will be held both at SAIC and Center on Halsted. Bringing together LGBTQ+-identified students and elders, this project provides a rare opportunity for dialogue across queer generations. Participants discuss, from their various perspectives and experiences, topics central to LGBTQ+ lives and histories such as Gender, Sex, Spirituality, Art, LGBTQ+ History, Family, Race, Class, Coming Out, Aging and Ageism, and Activism and Social Movements. Readings, audio recordings, and screenings will explore LGBTQ+ histories through their representation in various forms. Over the course of the semester, students work collaboratively with elders in small groups to create ¿objects'' in various forms (such as an animated video, comics zine, oral history, reflective or critical essay, personal narrative, visual art piece, or photographic essay) that bring to life the stories, histories, and lived experiences of LGBTQ+ folks. These ¿objects'' will be featured on our website (generationliberation.com).

Class Number

1093

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Lakeview - 206

Description

This collaborative, community-based course is centered around The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project, an ongoing partnership between Center on Halsted and SAIC. Classes will be held both at SAIC and Center on Halsted. Bringing together LGBTQ+-identified students and elders, this project provides a rare opportunity for dialogue across queer generations. Participants discuss, from their various perspectives and experiences, topics central to LGBTQ+ lives and histories such as Gender, Sex, Spirituality, Art, LGBTQ+ History, Family, Race, Class, Coming Out, Aging and Ageism, and Activism and Social Movements. Readings, audio recordings, and screenings will explore LGBTQ+ histories through their representation in various forms. Over the course of the semester, students work collaboratively with elders in small groups to create ¿objects'' in various forms (such as an animated video, comics zine, oral history, reflective or critical essay, personal narrative, visual art piece, or photographic essay) that bring to life the stories, histories, and lived experiences of LGBTQ+ folks. These ¿objects'' will be featured on our website (generationliberation.com).

Class Number

1093

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Lakeview - 206

Description

Eco Design Chicago Riverworks is an interactive transient external partnership sound mapping and community engagement course that uses everyday technology in the field to eco sense and imagine human and non-human biodiversity and coexistence. The class deploys biophonic, geophonic, anthrophonic sound maps, soundwalks, workshops, installations and lectures, in, along, above, on and under Chicago's Waterways to actively engage the community in water politics and policy. Students spend time outdoors environmentally autopsying soundwalks, biking Northerly Island, recording quiets spaces with the EU Hush City App, kayaking around Goose Island, riverwalking, and learning about the history of freshwater and the impending water crisis on a floating classroom. Assignments include generating objects, sound maps, AR interactives, and activating sites that raise awareness through public installations that invite participation.

Students will access an environmental bibliography that includes environmental initiators-Leopold, Carson, Muir, and others; international organizations studying Global health like OXFAM Better Life INDEX, Water/FOOD/Energy Stockholm Accord NEXUS; contemporary practices, ecological innovators, current documentary films, institutional and international activist websites and EU and City of Chicago Ordinances.

Course work varies but includes weekly reading responses/discussions, Book Reviews, team Film Reviews, Data Maps, Sound Maps, AR ecological interventions, Riverbank greening, and student choice proposal of activation of public sites.

Prerequisites

Open to students at Junior level and above.

Class Number

1091

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Area of Study

Public Space, Site, Landscape, Art and Science, Sustainable Design

Location

Sullivan Center 1240

Description

This course explores artistic, tactical, theoretical, cultural and pedagogical approaches to resisting Empire through the work of John Akomfrah, Black Audio Collective, #decolonizethisplace, Sky Hopinka, Tirza Even, Forensic Architecture, Rafa Esparza, Damon Locks, SuperFutures Haunt Collective and Santiago X. We will consider how artists, activists and scholars destabilize linear time, imagine queer futures and utopias by remixing hegemonic forms of social memory including archives, explore community-based knowledges and develop reparative counter-narratives. Structure: Readings, discussions, presentations, visits to Chicago archives, guest lectures, and development of pedagogical materials and/or scholarly/creative projects.

Group research trips include visits to libraries and collections to meet with archivists and researchers, including the following sites: the Gerber Hardt Library for GLBTQ studies, American Indian Center, Leather Archive and Museum, Edward E. Ayers Collection of native studies at the Newberry, Vivian G. Harsch, Harold Washington Special Collections and visits to informal, uncurated collections, including flea markets. Readings may include Eve Tuck, Audra Simpson, Stuart Hall, Russell West-Pavlov, Tina Campt, Gerald Vizenor, Jose Esteban Mu?oz, Arjun Appadurai, Tananarive Due, and Saidiya Hartman.

Students will engage with artistic, pedagogical, cultural practices and histories that work through and against formal and informal archives - recombining, remixing, and reimaging collections in order to critique hegemonic forms of social memory, offer reparative counter-narratives, and create community-based knowledge. Topics include: identity, activism, critical pedagogy, creativity as a force for social transformation, decolonial methodologies. Class structure: discussions of essays, visits to collections, guest lectures, and the development of pedagogical materials and/or scholarly-creative projects.

Class Number

1092

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Area of Study

Class, Race, Ethnicity, Community & Social Engagement, Exhibition and Curatorial Studies

Location

Lakeview - 1428

Description

The focus of this course is to support a sense of purpose and agency in prospective art teachers, teaching artists, and cultural workers by exploring how individual and collaborative cultural production reflects and influences conceptions of race, class, ethnicity, geography, sexuality, and physical/cognitive abilities in a diversity of communities and settings. Students will interrogate the cultural contexts¿aesthetics, artmaking approaches, social, political, historical, theoretical, technological, and pedagogical¿that frame the making, interpreting, analyzing, sharing, and teaching of art, design, and visual culture in school and community settings. Students will develop content for art and culture projects and curriculum sequences based upon contemporary topics, issues, and themes.

Students will explore the work of contemporary artists and cultural workers who integrate diverse artmaking approaches, cultural histories, theoretical orientations, and psychological perspectives into their arts-based practices. Artists and readings will be chosen based upon timely and emergent issues, concepts, and themes affecting a diversity of communities. Methods and strategies for integrating various literacies--verbal, visual, media, technological, computational--into cultural projects and curriculum will be explored.

Yes course will ask students to understand how individual and collaborative cultural production reflects and influences conceptions of race, class, ethnicity, geography, sexuality, and physical/cognitive abilities in a diversity of communities and settings. Students will also Understand how cultural contexts frame the making, interpreting, analyzing, sharing, and teaching art, design, and visual culture in school and community settings.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to junior BFAAE students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

1083

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Area of Study

Community & Social Engagement, Teaching, Art/Design and Politics

Location

Sharp 403

Description

This seminar is a direct application of the theory and conceptual framework for community-based art programming. Participants investigate new models for making art in the community, collaborating with a prearranged Chicago area audience, organization, and site. Collaborative art endeavors include indoor and outdoor site-specific work, installations, environments, performances, exhibitions, and special projects. Seminar sessions discuss and reflect the ethics, aesthetics, and challenges of 'public art' in community. Open to all graduate students.

Class Number

1082

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Area of Study

Class, Race, Ethnicity, Politics and Activisms, Community and Social Practice, Economic Inequality & Class, Community & Social Engagement, Art/Design and Politics, Gender and Sexuality

Location

Sharp 706

Description

This course provides teacher candidates with opportunities to observe, analyze, teach, and evaluate in elementary and secondary settings. Teacher candidates build constructive relationships with K­12 students, faculty, staff, and community members at two fieldwork sites through guided observation engagement. They develop and teach curriculum projects and learn methods of non-punitive classroom management. This experience provides groundwork, connections, and continuity to apprentice teaching. Apprentice teachers will complete a 5-week elementary/middle school placement and a 5-week high school placement as well as attend a weekly apprentice teaching seminar at SAIC.

Students will study examples of curriculum and pedagogy that cover all Illinois state mandated standards as defined by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE): NASAD Visual Arts Standards; Illinois Professional Teaching Standards; Social and Emotional Learning Standards; Literacy Standards. In the process, students will learn to create original art curriculum that encompasses these standards, and how to implement these standards in their pedagogical practice.

The course includes observation/teaching days at elementary and secondary school placements, as well as weekly seminars at SAIC. During each of their two 5-week placements, students spend the school day at their respective assigned school placements before attending the evening seminar at SAIC. Time in seminars is spent developing and critiquing curriculum projects, exemplars (teacher project samples), instructional materials and assessment strategies in preparation for teaching in practicum placement schools, and later in apprentice teaching.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to junior BFAAE students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

1073

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 402

Description

This course provides teacher candidates with opportunities to observe, analyze, teach, and evaluate in elementary and secondary settings. Teacher candidates build constructive relationships with K­12 students, faculty, staff, and community members at two fieldwork sites through guided observation engagement. They develop and teach curriculum projects and learn methods of non-punitive classroom management. This experience provides groundwork, connections, and continuity to apprentice teaching. Apprentice teachers will complete a 5-week elementary/middle school placement and a 5-week high school placement as well as attend a weekly apprentice teaching seminar at SAIC.

Students will study examples of curriculum and pedagogy that cover all Illinois state mandated standards as defined by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE): NASAD Visual Arts Standards; Illinois Professional Teaching Standards; Social and Emotional Learning Standards; Literacy Standards. In the process, students will learn to create original art curriculum that encompasses these standards, and how to implement these standards in their pedagogical practice.

The course includes observation/teaching days at elementary and secondary school placements, as well as weekly seminars at SAIC. During each of their two 5-week placements, students spend the school day at their respective assigned school placements before attending the evening seminar at SAIC. Time in seminars is spent developing and critiquing curriculum projects, exemplars (teacher project samples), instructional materials and assessment strategies in preparation for teaching in practicum placement schools, and later in apprentice teaching.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to junior BFAAE students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

1074

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 409

Description

This course provides teacher candidates with opportunities to observe, analyze, teach, and evaluate in elementary and secondary settings. Teacher candidates build constructive relationships with K­12 students, faculty, staff, and community members at two fieldwork sites through guided observation engagement. They develop and teach curriculum projects and learn methods of non-punitive classroom management. This experience provides groundwork, connections, and continuity to apprentice teaching. Apprentice teachers will complete a 5-week elementary/middle school placement and a 5-week high school placement as well as attend a weekly apprentice teaching seminar at SAIC.

Students will study examples of curriculum and pedagogy that cover all Illinois state mandated standards as defined by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE): NASAD Visual Arts Standards; Illinois Professional Teaching Standards; Social and Emotional Learning Standards; Literacy Standards. In the process, students will learn to create original art curriculum that encompasses these standards, and how to implement these standards in their pedagogical practice.

The course includes observation/teaching days at elementary and secondary school placements, as well as weekly seminars at SAIC. During each of their two 5-week placements, students spend the school day at their respective assigned school placements before attending the evening seminar at SAIC. Time in seminars is spent developing and critiquing curriculum projects, exemplars (teacher project samples), instructional materials and assessment strategies in preparation for teaching in practicum placement schools, and later in apprentice teaching.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to junior BFAAE students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

1075

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 404

Description

This course provides teacher candidates with opportunities to observe, analyze, teach, and evaluate in elementary and secondary settings. Teacher candidates build constructive relationships with K­12 students, faculty, staff, and community members at two fieldwork sites through guided observation engagement. They develop and teach curriculum projects and learn methods of non-punitive classroom management. This experience provides groundwork, connections, and continuity to apprentice teaching. Apprentice teachers will complete a 5-week elementary/middle school placement and a 5-week high school placement as well as attend a weekly apprentice teaching seminar at SAIC.

Students will study examples of curriculum and pedagogy that cover all Illinois state mandated standards as defined by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE): NASAD Visual Arts Standards; Illinois Professional Teaching Standards; Social and Emotional Learning Standards; Literacy Standards. In the process, students will learn to create original art curriculum that encompasses these standards, and how to implement these standards in their pedagogical practice.

The course includes observation/teaching days at elementary and secondary school placements, as well as weekly seminars at SAIC. During each of their two 5-week placements, students spend the school day at their respective assigned school placements before attending the evening seminar at SAIC. Time in seminars is spent developing and critiquing curriculum projects, exemplars (teacher project samples), instructional materials and assessment strategies in preparation for teaching in practicum placement schools, and later in apprentice teaching.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to junior BFAAE students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

2354

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

MacLean 919

Description

This course provides teacher candidates with opportunities to observe, analyze, teach, and evaluate in elementary and secondary settings. Teacher candidates build constructive relationships with K­12 students, faculty, staff, and community members at two fieldwork sites through guided observation engagement. They develop and teach curriculum projects and learn methods of non-punitive classroom management. This experience provides groundwork, connections, and continuity to apprentice teaching. Apprentice teachers will complete a 5-week elementary/middle school placement and a 5-week high school placement as well as attend a weekly apprentice teaching seminar at SAIC.

Students will study examples of curriculum and pedagogy that cover all Illinois state mandated standards as defined by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE): NASAD Visual Arts Standards; Illinois Professional Teaching Standards; Social and Emotional Learning Standards; Literacy Standards. In the process, students will learn to create original art curriculum that encompasses these standards, and how to implement these standards in their pedagogical practice.

The course includes observation/teaching days at elementary and secondary school placements, as well as weekly seminars at SAIC. During each of their two 5-week placements, students spend the school day at their respective assigned school placements before attending the evening seminar at SAIC. Time in seminars is spent developing and critiquing curriculum projects, exemplars (teacher project samples), instructional materials and assessment strategies in preparation for teaching in practicum placement schools, and later in apprentice teaching.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to junior BFAAE students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

2352

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Lakeview - 1004

Description

This course provides teacher candidates with opportunities to observe, analyze, teach, and evaluate in elementary and secondary settings. Teacher candidates build constructive relationships with K­12 students, faculty, staff, and community members at two fieldwork sites through guided observation engagement. They develop and teach curriculum projects and learn methods of non-punitive classroom management. This experience provides groundwork, connections, and continuity to apprentice teaching. Apprentice teachers will complete a 5-week elementary/middle school placement and a 5-week high school placement as well as attend a weekly apprentice teaching seminar at SAIC.

Students will study examples of curriculum and pedagogy that cover all Illinois state mandated standards as defined by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE): NASAD Visual Arts Standards; Illinois Professional Teaching Standards; Social and Emotional Learning Standards; Literacy Standards. In the process, students will learn to create original art curriculum that encompasses these standards, and how to implement these standards in their pedagogical practice.

The course includes observation/teaching days at elementary and secondary school placements, as well as weekly seminars at SAIC. During each of their two 5-week placements, students spend the school day at their respective assigned school placements before attending the evening seminar at SAIC. Time in seminars is spent developing and critiquing curriculum projects, exemplars (teacher project samples), instructional materials and assessment strategies in preparation for teaching in practicum placement schools, and later in apprentice teaching.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to junior BFAAE students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

2353

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 706, To Be Announced

Description

Relating contemporary and traditional artmaking approaches and culturally responsive pedagogy with curriculum, project, and instructional design methods, this course provides prospective teachers and teaching artists with knowledge and skills needed to structure learning experiences through which children and youth in elementary schools, middle schools and community settings enhance their creativity, develop technical skills, understand a range of artmaking practices, make personally meaningful works, and explore big ideas. Course participants will structure teaching plans that identify students¿ prior knowledge, scaffold learning, use multiple teaching and learning strategies to promote student engagement and differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students. They will learn to articulate clear and verifiable core learning objectives, select relevant national and state standards and design assessments that capture essential student learning without standardizing students¿ artworks. Teacher reflection based on critique, student input and assessment data will be used in an iterative process of editing and redesigning curriculum. Connecting visual and verbal literacies, prospective teachers will make use of reading, writing and speaking activities that engage students in interpreting art and analyzing visual culture as well as using picture books as a source of inspiration for their personal storytelling and artmaking. Teachers will learn to select and/or develop reading level-appropriate art and culture readings to support learning.

Studying a range of art education practices will provide teacher candidates with theoretical perspectives from which to build their own unique pedagogical approaches. Readings include works by Maria Montessori, Viktor Lowenfeld, Anne Thulson, Lisa Delpit, Vivian Paley, and Sonia Nieto as well as overviews of Reggio Emelia, Teaching for Social Justice, Teaching for Artistic Behavior, Studio Habits, Visual Thinking Strategies and Principles of Possibility

Course assignments will include readings and discussion responses and researching artists, artmaking approaches and pedagogical practices as well as writing project and lesson plans accompanied by teacher artwork examples, image presentations, readings, assessments, and other instructional materials, as well as documenting plans and student artworks. Participants will teach small groups of students in elementary schools with English Language Learners.

All student must complete and pass Chicago Public Schools Background Check.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to MAAE or MAT students only or with permission of instructor.

Class Number

1086

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 706

Description

In the work of becoming and being an educator, it is necessary and important to comprehend the evolving ways human development is understood, engaged, and implicated in the teaching of children, adolescents and adults. Humans are, to put it simply, different. And it is these differences that present opportunities and challenges in teaching and learning. This course offers an interdisciplinary investigation into evolving conceptions of human development, including, but not limited to, psychological, legal, historical, and sociological frameworks. Additionally, students will explore the histories of childhood as they impact and have impacted the material culture of schools and school design.

Investigating evolving conceptions of human development will provide teacher candidates with interdisciplinary perspectives to build their own understanding of students as subjects in formation. This includes gaining theoretical, historical, and pedagogical knowledge on a range of developmental issues in education. Readings include works by John Dewey, W.E.B. DuBois, Tom Shakespeare, Cris Mayo, Deborah Britzman, Stephen Vassallo, Alexandra Lange, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Maria Montessori as well as overviews of Disability, Race Conscious, and Queer Theories in education.

Course work includes an essay questioning & responding to human development, an analysis of childhood development as illustrated in children's literature, an interpretation of adolescence as represented through short films, along with a midterm and final project documenting the work of learning throughout the semester.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to MAT students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

1087

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 403

Description

This seminar involves readings and discussions of works by twentieth-century social theorists who have had or might have consequences for artists' approaches to their own practices, as well as the interpretation of artistic production in general. It is not intended to be a survey of aesthetic theories, but rather will consider various questions concerning social relations and institutions, as well as basic premises that inform different conceptual approaches to these issues. Students will also read work that deals with the production and consumption of art using particular social-theoretical frameworks. Open to all students senior level and above.

Class Number

1081

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Area of Study

Class, Race, Ethnicity, Community & Social Engagement, Art/Design and Politics

Location

Sharp 403

Description

This course examines theoretical and practical issues implicit in the conceptualization of the public sphere. Teacher candidates explore social theory through historical and contemporary models of community activism, grassroots organizing, and other cultural work in relation to the contested space of the public sphere. Teacher candidates research and develop individual and collaborative creative work including interviews, observations, and proposals for an ethical community-based project.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to MAAE or MAT students only or with permission of instructor.

Class Number

1079

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Area of Study

Class, Race, Ethnicity, Art/Design and Politics, Gender and Sexuality

Location

Sharp 404

Description

Cyberpedagogy introduces pre-service teachers and teaching artists to philosophical, pedagogical, and practical aspects of using emerging technology and media in art making and education. Students will gain a working knowledge of art-making technologies and media appropriate for instruction in the K-12 classroom and informal learning environments. They will investigate how children and adolescents use emerging technologies and media as an outlet for creative self-expression and cultural production. They will consider the dynamic nature of emerging technologies and media, and its ever-changing implications for K-12 art teachers and teaching artists.

Students will explore contemporary artists whose work utilizes, explores, and critiques emerging technologies and media. Students will read texts by contemporary theorists that examine how emerging technologies increasingly mediate social interaction and construct social meaning. Students will explore examples of art curricula that critically incorporates emerging technology and media.

Students in this course will work independently and collaboratively on several art projects using a variety of emerging technologies and media. They will also develop lessons for the K-12 art classroom that integrate the critical use of emerging technologies and media to explore acutely relevant social and cultural issues.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to MAT students only or permission of instructor.

Class Number

1080

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Area of Study

Class, Race, Ethnicity, Teaching, Game Design

Location

MacLean 908

Description

This seminar examines and analyzes the American art museum as a teaching institution based on observation, analysis, and critique of current museum education practices. Themes explored include audience analysis, evaluation methods, and the use of media, exhibition concept and design, and teaching methods. Efforts by museums to reach out to various communities, collaborations between museums and other institutions, and the way artists interact with and comment upon museums are also examined. Participants gain a detailed understanding of museum education practices in contemporary art museums.

Class Number

2131

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Area of Study

Community & Social Engagement, Museum Studies, Exhibition and Curatorial Studies

Location

Sharp 402

Description

The focus of this course is to support a sense of purpose and agency in prospective art teachers, teaching artists, and cultural workers by exploring how individual and collaborative cultural production reflects and influences conceptions of race, class, ethnicity, geography, sexuality, and physical/cognitive abilities in a diversity of communities and settings. Students will interrogate the cultural contexts¿aesthetics, artmaking approaches, social, political, historical, theoretical, technological, and pedagogical¿that frame the making, interpreting, analyzing, sharing, and teaching of art, design, and visual culture in school and community settings. Students will develop content for art and culture projects and curriculum sequences based upon contemporary topics, issues, and themes.

Students will explore the work of contemporary artists and cultural workers who integrate diverse artmaking approaches, cultural histories, theoretical orientations, and psychological perspectives into their arts-based practices. Artists and readings will be chosen based upon timely and emergent issues, concepts, and themes affecting a diversity of communities. Methods and strategies for integrating various literacies--verbal, visual, media, technological, computational--into cultural projects and curriculum will be explored.

Yes course will ask students to understand how individual and collaborative cultural production reflects and influences conceptions of race, class, ethnicity, geography, sexuality, and physical/cognitive abilities in a diversity of communities and settings. Students will also Understand how cultural contexts frame the making, interpreting, analyzing, sharing, and teaching art, design, and visual culture in school and community settings.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to MAAE or MAT students only or with permission of instructor.

Class Number

1077

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Area of Study

Community & Social Engagement, Teaching, Art/Design and Politics

Location

Sharp 409

Description

Section 001: Thesis Fieldwork - The individual student and instructor will meet at agreed times to provide supervision and dialogue relating to the clinical experience. The choice of field site is agreed upon by student, instructor, and site supervisor. Students will spend 12 hours per week for 3 semester hours credit. This course can be taken for 3 or 6 semester hours. Section 002: Career and Professional Experience Elective Internship - Graduate CAPX education and internships in art education allow students to work in part-time, art-related CAPX positions in approved organizations and institutions. Students are assigned a CAPX faculty adviser. Participation requires a total of 210 hours, with a minimum weekly average of 15 work hours with the internship organization. Call the Career and Professional Experience Program at 312/ 499-4130 for further information. Permission to register for this course must be obtained from the director of the CAPX Program.

Prerequisites

You must be a Master of Arts in Art Education student to take this course.

Class Number

1078

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 403

Description

This course provides teacher candidates with opportunities to observe, analyze, teach, and evaluate in elementary and secondary settings. Teacher candidates build constructive relationships with K­12 students, faculty, staff, and community members at two fieldwork sites through guided observation engagement. They develop and teach curriculum projects and learn methods of non-punitive classroom management. This experience provides groundwork, connections, and continuity to apprentice teaching. Apprentice teachers will complete a 5-week elementary/middle school placement and a 5-week high school placement as well as attend a weekly apprentice teaching seminar at SAIC.

Students will study examples of curriculum and pedagogy that cover all Illinois state mandated standards as defined by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE): NASAD Visual Arts Standards; Illinois Professional Teaching Standards; Social and Emotional Learning Standards; Literacy Standards. In the process, students will learn to create original art curriculum that encompasses these standards, and how to implement these standards in their pedagogical practice.

The course includes observation/teaching days at elementary and secondary school placements, as well as weekly seminars at SAIC. During each of their two 5-week placements, students spend the school day at their respective assigned school placements before attending the evening seminar at SAIC. Time in seminars is spent developing and critiquing curriculum projects, exemplars (teacher project samples), instructional materials and assessment strategies in preparation for teaching in practicum placement schools, and later in apprentice teaching.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Open to MAAE or MAT students only or with permission of instructor.

Class Number

1076

Credits

3

Department

Art Education

Location

Sharp 403

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