Foundations in Art Education
Examines foundational principles of art education and curriculum planning, instruction, and assessment for kindergarten through twelfth-grade students.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.70 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.46 GPA, 69.2% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Define the components of Discipline-Based Art Education and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and use them to guide decisions related to art curriculum, instruction and assessment.
Explain choice-based models of art education, prominent theories of creativity, and methods for facilitating creative processes and use them to inform curricular and instructional decisions.
Demonstrate the fundamental skills of lesson planning through the design of standards-based, culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate art curriculum inspired by the pedagogical models studied during the semester.
Apply a variety of effective instructional strategies for engaging art learners in community-based settings, such as art centers, after-school programs and art clubs.
Source: UW Guide
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.70 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.46 GPA, 69.2% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
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Topics
- Foundational principles of art education
- Discipline-Based Art Education and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
- Choice-based models of art education and theories of creativity
- Instructional strategies for community-based art settings
Skills
- Apply Discipline-Based Art Education and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to guide curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
- Design standards-based, culturally relevant, and developmentally appropriate art lessons and curricula.
- Use effective instructional strategies to engage art learners in community-based settings like art centers and after-school programs.
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