ART3850: Art in the Elementary School (for non-art majors)

SYLLABUS

Course Description

From Catalog- (3 credits) Education philosophy, methodology, media, and techniques for elementary school classes. Prerequisite: Junior standing.

Course Objectives

Students will:

• acquire a basic understanding of a child’s artistic development.
• study and articulate why art should be integrated into the regular classroom.
• study why children need to create.
• gain insight into the language of art.
• study why art can be aesthetically developed in young children through history, culture, looking, thinking, feeling, and doing.
• recognize that art is a social event for the classroom and community.
• be able to teach, manage, and organize art projects for the classroom.
• study how technology can be incorporated into art instruction.
• recognize that assessment in art is individualized.
• improve critical thinking skills.

Course Format

As an online course, students will utilize several methods of distance learning. Primarily, this course is driven by studio projects that students will complete on their own and submit via a course website and/or snail mail. This course will also rely on “read and discuss” techniques, by which students will apply concepts from the text to relevant issues of visual art. Discussion will occur asyncronously (anytime, anyplace) through the Discussion Board of the course website on BlackBoard.

Required Materials

Text- Emphasis Art: A Qualitative Art Program for Elementary and Middle Schools, 8^th ed., 2006, by Frank Wachowiak and Robert Clements.