Art Education
The Bachelor of Arts in Art Education prepares graduates for certification to teach in public and private K-12 classrooms.
K-12 school teaching candidates are required to complete the General Education (core curriculum) requirements, Secondary Education Professional requirements, and Field and Clinical Experience courses.
Evangel University Art Education graduates are prepared for certification within the State of Missouri. Requirements may differ from state to state. Consult professional requirements within a state of planned practice.
Program Learning Outcomes
In addition to the Professional Education Learning Outcomes, graduates of the Art Education program will:
- Speak and write knowledgeably about art history and its relationship to societies past and present, to faith, and to one’s own artistic practice.
- Explain the basic structural elements and operative principles in works of art and design from any major period of human history.
- Demonstrate interpretive skills by discussing the philosophical potentials in works of art.
- Integrate personal Christian faith and the arts by explaining their mutual relevance and by demonstrating it in one’s own personal artwork.
- Produce creative original artwork in a variety of media, using appropriate tools and methods skillfully.
- Develop the beginnings of a personal artistic style that can be extended into a professional career in the arts.
- Demonstrate professional dedication to promotion of the arts in general and to the disciplined study and practice of one’s own area of interest in particular.
- Demonstrate enthusiasm for undertaking a career in the arts.
- Demonstrate in-depth understanding of Art teaching methods, best practices, standards (national, state, and institutional), and pedagogical theories by applying them to classroom situations to improve students’ art proficiencies and competence.