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Art Education Degree
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
Program type:
Major
Teaching Certification
Format:
On Campus
Est. time to complete:
4 years
Credit Hours:
120
Thinking | Experimenting | Acting | Making
The Department of Art Education rigorously prepares innovative arts education professionals
for a dynamic educational landscape, through critical inquiry, creative research and
acts of transformative making, and intersectional perspectives/implications for just
and sustainable futures.
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Request More InfoWhy Earn an Art Education Degree?
Explore new ideas, new approaches, and possibilities for understanding emergent relations between art and education in order to become an effective change agent in K-12 art classrooms and other contexts of arts education.
Marketable Skills
- Instructional planning
- Pedagogical practices
- Assessment of learning
- Implementation of standards-based curriculum
- Oral and written communication
Art Education Degree Highlights
Caring, critical, committed faculty members are invested in nurturing innovative art
educators.
Our dedicated art education learning and teaching spaces include two large art studios,
three computer labs, a workshop and a visual resources library.
Through our work with local school districts, you will observe how art teachers work
with and use available resources in actual school settings.
UNT offers unique opportunities to collaborate with the African American Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Crow Museum of Asian
Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Meadows Museum, Modern Art Museum of
Fort Worth and the Greater Denton Arts Council.
The College of Visual Arts and Design is one of the nation's most comprehensive visual
arts schools and one of the best in the Southwest.
The UNT Art Gallery offers 2,500 square feet of exhibition space with a permanent
collection of 182 works and a lending collection of 974 works.
What Can You do With an Art Education Degree?
The B.F.A. in Art Education prepares you for a career working as an art teacher at the early childhood-, elementary-, middle- or high-school-levels as well as for careers in community art programs and other educational facilities.
Training also may be applied to careers with nonprofit arts organizations and serve
as a foundation for advanced study in related fields, such as museum education.
Students wishing to graduate with a degree in Art Education without a K-12 art teaching certification may inquire about doing so, in advisement with the department.
Art Education Degree Courses You Could Take
Art Education: Foundations (3 hrs)
Introduction to the field of art education.
Art Education: Elementary Art Education Practices (3 hrs)
Child development theory and creativity examined in relation to contemporary practice
in the elementary art classroom.
Art Education: Secondary Art Education Practices (3 hrs)
Preadolescent and adolescent creative development and theory examined in relation
to contemporary art-making practice in the secondary art classroom.
Art Education: Global Aesthetics (3 hrs)
Cross-cultural examination of philosophical aesthetic issues in art, focusing on the
relationship of art to culture.
Art Education: Computer Art Applications (3 hrs)
Exploration of the role of computers as a tool in visual arts studies. Emphasis placed
on the visual, conceptual and practical use of computers as a medium for making art and connections to the
practice of art education.
Art Education: Inquiry and Dialogue about Art (3 hrs)
Understanding and finding meaning in artworks and artifacts within an authentic context
through inquiry-based models.
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