Prepare to teach art at the elementary or secondary level.
Interested in combining your passion for art and your desire to educate and inspire children? If so, our art education program may be right for you.
Get everything you need to graduate as a well-rounded practicing artist with excellent teaching skills from one of Ohio’s leading teacher preparation programs.
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So you want to become an art teacher … to introduce kids to the thrill of creation and the wonders of the masters from times long passed.
You’ll be pleased to learn that Ashland University’s Art Education program offers everything you need to graduate as a well-rounded practicing artist with excellent teaching skills. The rigorous curriculum combines intensive studio art training with Ashland’s well-known and highly respected teacher education program that prepares you to test for teacher licensure.
What You’ll Love About the Art Education Program:
- You receive lots of one-on-one attention from your professors who are themselves talented artists and educators.
- In addition to becoming a well-rounded, skilled teacher, the program is designed to help you become a capable, practicing artist.
- Our facilities include ample studio space to accommodate all students and all artistic disciplines.
- The Coburn Gallery exhibits the work of nationally know artists as well as outstanding work by faculty and students … maybe even yours.
- You will have opportunities to showcase your best work from your freshman year on — something that would be impossible in a program serving hundreds of students.
- Ashland University’s College of Education is recognized throughout the country as having one of the leading teacher preparation programs in Ohio.
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Reach Your Career Goals
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As a graduate of this program, you will be ready to pass multi-age licensure tests to become an art teacher in a Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 classroom.
Career possibilities increase when you go on to earn:
- Master of Education — Available during fall and spring evening classes and both day and evening classes throughout the summer at centers in Ashland, Columbus, Elyria, Massillon and Cleveland Center.
- Master of Educational Administration — Provides you with certification in an educational administration of your choice.
- Doctor of Education — a terminal degree in the field of education.
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Professors with a Passion for Art and Education
- All of your art professors are practicing artists, each with their own unique style and approach to the discipline.
- Each of your professors has a gift for teaching and a love of the classroom. These professors, not graduate students or teaching assistants, teach all of your classes.
- Ashland University offers one of the most respected educator training programs in the state taught by teachers who are highly experienced in the classroom and well regarded in the field.
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Gain Real World Experience
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Exhibitions:
All graduating art students in every discipline are required to produce a senior exhibition, which usually takes place in the Coburn Gallery at the end of each academic year. This process is overseen by the Senior Exhibition course, which allows graduating artists the experience of staging their own gallery
space, and provides feedback on optimal exhibition strategies.
Each year the Coburn Gallery hosts the Annual Student Exhibition, featuring the outstanding work done in art classes during the previous year. The exhibition is juried by an outside professional, who not only chooses the work to be exhibited but designates over $1,300 in cash awards, including $250 for Best in Show. This exhibition allows students to experience the competitive field of professional visual art firsthand.
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Reviews:
Students in every art area are reviewed twice prior to their senior year. Foundations Reviews are conducted to evaluate the student’s skill level developed in the Art Foundations Sequence, and to indicate areas of strength as well as those needing improvement. Concentration Reviews are held at the end of the junior year to evaluate each artist’s technical and conceptual development in preparation for t
heir senior exhibition. These reviews are part of the Art Department’s assessment process.
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Some of the Interesting Classes You May Take
- Social and Professional Issues in Education — Study current issues in education with a view toward understanding education as an institution.
- Teaching and Learning Process — Discover factors that enhance and inhibit the learning process, explore learning environment assessment methods and the role of the community and family in shaping a student’s physical, cognitive and moral development.
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Organizations for Graphic Art Majors
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