Art Education
Coordinator: Bonnie Black
E-mail: bjblack@ualr.edu
The Art Education option at UALR is designed to provide a strong studio and art history background while fulfilling the requirements for Arkansas Licensure for the Art K-8 and Art 7-12 teaching areas. Students develop digital teaching portfolios and use a variety of interactive technology for classroom assignments. During art education and teacher education courses, students visit a variety of elementary, middle and senior high school art programs. University students participate in teaching assignments in elementary and secondary art classrooms.
All secondary education programs have several components: university core requirements, an 18-hour Secondary Education Minor, and a major in a content area (such as Art, English, Math, or Biology, etc.). Some programs also require additional courses, blocks of courses, or other special minors related to the licensure area. Programs in which a Bachelor of Arts degree is awarded include a second language proficiency requirement.
All students must have a minimum of 124 hours (including 45 hours of upper‐level courses) to graduate. Because these requirements often overlap and are complicated in other ways, early and careful planning is
necessary to complete the programs in four years. Students are encouraged to contact a faculty advisor in their area of interest as early as possible after acceptance to UALR.
Art Education Emphasis Requirements
Praxis II Licensure Exams
- Art Making
- Art: Content, Traditions, Criticism and Aesthetics
- Art: Content Knowledge
Students must major in art, completing the following curriculum (64
hours).
Foundations (15 hours)
- ARST1310 Basic Drawing
- ARST1315 2-D Design
- ARST 2310 Figure Drawing
- ARST 2315 3-D Design
- ARST 2318 Designing with New Technologies
Studio (27 Hours)
- ARST 3310 Advanced Drawing I
- ARST 3320 Painting I
- ARST 3330 Printmaking I
- ARST 3340 Graphic Design I or ARST 3380 Illustration
- ARST 3350 Ceramics I
- ARST 3360 Sculpture I
- ARST 3370 Photography I
- ARST 3312 Crafts I
- 3 hours of ARST electives
Art History (12 Hours)
- ARHA 2310 Survey of the History of Art I
- ARHA 2311 Survey of the History of Art II
- Two additional ARHA courses, excluding 2200, 4302 and 4303
Art Education (10 hours)
- ARED 3316 Teaching Art in the Secondary School
- ARED 3345 Public School Art
- ARED 4325 Foundations in Art Education
- ARED 4194 Independent Study (Student teaching)
Students in the bachelor of arts in art/secondary education program who want to enroll in a master of arts in art or master of fine arts program after graduation need to take additional studio and art history course work at the undergraduate level.
For complete descriptions of all Art Education courses, please refer to Course Descriptions heading in the menu bar at left.