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[ Art ]
K-12 Art Education Certification
Elmhurst offers one of the area's few art education teacher certification programs. Students may prepare to teach at the elementary, middle/junior high, or high school level with K-12 certification. The art education program prepares you as an artist in your own right, and as a future teacher who will help your students develop their own visual literacy.
The art education program is certified by the State of Illinois Board of Education. It is essential that students interested in this field identify themselves as early as possible to Mary Lou Stewart, director of the art education program, and to the education department and confer regularly with their advisors.
Program Requirements
Suggested Sequence of Courses
Program Requirements
The program consists of the following:
- The Art Department's Core Curriculum: ART 230, 235, and a 300-level studio elective
- The art methods sequence: ART 361 and 362
- EDU 104 American Education
- PSY 210 Introduction to Psychological Science
- SEC 200 Introduction to Teacher Education (Quarter course)
- SEC 210 Introductory Methods in Elementary and Middle School Organization and Instruction
- SEC 299 Portfolio Synthesis Seminar I (Quarter course)
- SEC 311/PSY 311 Educational Psychology
- SEC 323 Education of PK-12 Learners with Exceptionalities
- SEC 370 Portfolio Synthesis Seminar II (Quarter course)
- SEC 410 Principles and Procedures in Middle and Secondary Education
- SEC 457 Student Teaching in Special Fields
Courses in speech, American history and American government, physical education, mathematics, and sciences are also required. Students wishing to receive a B.F.A. and art certification must complete the required courses for both programs.
Transfer students, including those with a degree in art from another institution, seeking only Illinois teacher certification in art education must take at least one full course from each of the following three categories from the Elmhurst College Department of Art: art history, studio, and art methods. Students with exceptional undergraduate qualifications or with post-graduate education in art may petition the director of the art education program to waive or modify this requirement.
Students are required to pass the Illinois Basic Skills Test to be admitted to a certification program, the appropriate content area test prior to the student teaching semester, and the APT (Assessment of Professional Teaching) test prior to program completion.
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Suggested Sequence of Courses
FIRST YEAR
Fall Term
ART 115 Drawing Studio
ART 125 Design Studio
College/Certification Requirements
Spring Term
ART 113 Introduction to Multimedia
ART 120 Painting Studio
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SECOND YEAR
Fall Term
ART 341 Survey History of Western Art
ART 230 Printmaking Studio
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Spring Term
ART 342 Survey History of Modern Art
ART 235 Sculpture Studio
EDU 104 American Education
SEC 200 Introduction to Teacher Education (Quarter course)
SEC 299 Portfolio Synthesis Seminar I (Quarter course)
College/Certification Requirements
THIRD YEAR
Fall Term
ART 361 Art Methods and Experiences for the Elementary and Middle School K-8
SEC 210 Introductory Methods in Elementary and Middle School Organization and Instruction
SEC 311 Educational Psychology
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Spring Term
ART 373 Survey of Non-European Art
ART 443 Issues in Contemporary Art: Theory and Practice Beyond the Modern
SEC 323 Education of PK-12 Learners with Exceptionalities
Upper-level Art Studio
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FOURTH YEAR
Fall Term
ART 362 Art Methods and Experiences in Secondary Education
ART 490 Capstone Course
ART 491 Capstone Exhibition (Half course)
SEC 370 Portfolio Synthesis Seminar II (Quarter course)
SEC 410 Principles and Procedures in Middle and Secondary Education
College/Certification Requirements
Spring Term
SEC 457 Student Teaching in Special Fields
January Term is typically used for additional studio electives, education requirements, or both.
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