This course explores theories and practices of community-engaged pedagogy in art and design education, and the development of a conceptual framework for studio-based teaching and learning in community settings. The course introduces an approach to pedagogy that explores the complexities of community engagement to include social and political considerations of community-engaged practice; historical considerations for community partnerships; and pedagogies specifically designed for heterogeneous groups in a variety of community settings. Students examine these complexities through observations in community learning spaces, academic and public scholarship, reflection, and developing a community-engaged teaching philosophy. 

Enrollment in this course is limited to Teaching + Learning in Art + Design Students.

Major Requirement | MA Teaching + Learning in Art + Design

This seminar provides an opportunity to critically examine topics and issues within various arts learning contexts. The course is designed to provide students with a primer to practices and scholarship of the intersections between the arts and education. The course is grounded in types of learning that occur in a range of institutional and organizational settings that include schools, colleges and universities, museums as well as non-profit sector community-based organizations. The seminar explores the role of art and design in individuals' lives from the perspective of the past and present as well as contemporary shifts that suggest a re-examination of focus and pedagogical approach. The course draws extensively from key documents from the arts learning literature as well as the expertise of scholars and practitioners who will join the course throughout the semester to share with students perspectives that illustrate both common ground and a diversity of thinking surrounding some of the more pressing topics and problems within the guests' respective professional fields. Throughout the course, students are required to provide annotations of journal articles, present reaction papers, make presentations on designated topics, and at completion of the course present a proposal for a potential thesis monograph essay or thesis book.

Enrollment in this course is limited to Teaching + Learning in Art + Design Students.

Major Requirement | MA Teaching + Learning in Art + Design

This course examines the historical developments of visual arts education in its connection to general education; contemporary theory and practices of art education; and implications for the future of the field related to equity and justice. At  each stage of the investigation, issues are examined in terms of the relationship between context, content, and pedagogical practice. There is a particular emphasis in this course on exploring the manner in which social and political constructions shape curriculum and pedagogy in art + design education. Major topics of investigation include: social theories impacting  curricular practices in visual arts and design education, and histories of advocacy, justice, and equity in art + design education.

Enrollment in this course is limited to Teaching + Learning in Art + Design Students.

Major Requirement | MAT Teaching + Learning in Art + Design