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5000 Level Art Education Course Descriptions
ARTED 5011
Understanding Curriculum: The Politics and Pedagogy of Curricula
This course provides an overview of curriculum theory by exploring curricula
as historical, cultural, social, and political texts and practices.
Students investigate topics such as critical pedagogy, visual culture,
feminism, multiculturalism, personal narrative, and postcolonalism.
These topics are contextualized within current art education theories
and practices. Prerequisites: Open to art education graduate students
or with permission of instructor.
ARTED 5012
Mind and Brain
Beginning with a brief historical overview of the study of the physiology
and visual illustration of the brain, the course will survey some recent
developments in the fields of brain science, cognitive science, and
artificial intelligence, and look briefly at the linguistic field of
cognitive grammar. Lectures will be supplemented with graphic materials
including historical and contemporary medical illustrations, visual
and aural illusions of various types, and video tapes of animated EEGs
and MRI scans. Topics addressed will include: the senses and perception;
the unconscious; memory; dreams; mental representations and categories
of thought; the structure of thought and the body; hemispherical specialization
(left brain and right brain); emotion; and synthesis.
ARTED 5013
Young Artist’s Studios:
Graduate Teaching Seminar
This course is for MAAE, MA, and MFA students desiring practical art
education experience through curriculum development and team teaching
in the Young Artists' Studios of the Continuing Studies program. The
course consists of two concurrent parts: 1) a seminar component to discuss
issues related to teaching and to develop curriculum for a children's
studio art course; 2) a teamwork component: working in teams of two,
students will implement their curriculum in a two-hour seven-week Saturday
course. Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of issues related
to teaching, including a meaningful and socially relevant curriculum;
developmentally appropriate methods and materials; the facilitation
of discussions and critiques; the organization of materials and time;
and the evaluation of children's art.
ARTED 5020
Seminar III: Cultural Studies,
Critical Pedagogy, and the Making of a Cultural Worker
This course will analyze the intersection of cultural studies and critical
pedagogy in the work of Stuart Hall and Paulo Freire. By focusing on
the intersection of cultural politics and critical pedagogy, the course
will address how the work of Hall and Freire provides crucial theoretical
insights for addressing the role that public cultural workers might
play in expanding the meaning and relevance of culture as a terrain
of struggle and resistance, a terrain central to understanding how issues
of identity, knowledge, power, and memory work to open up or close down
democratic public space. Central to the course is the issue of how to
reclaim the political as part of a broader democratic project in which
cultural workers can redefine their role as engaged intellectuals. In
so doing, this may expand the meaning of pedagogy to open up new spaces
for addressing how identities and subjectivities can be constructed
within a notion of agency that animates the possibilities for self determination
and public life. Open to senior level students and above.
ARTED 5030
The Museum as Critical Curriculum
As museums develop more sophisticated education and community programs,
how can teachers, artists and arts organizers become more effective
using a museum’s resources to create curriculum? This course will
survey innovative strategies developed locally, nationally and internationally
to imbed museum-based curriculum in the active lives of communities,
and to imprint the cultural initiatives of communities on museums. Students
of this course will design curricular units with Chicago Public School
or community organization classrooms. Prerequisite: ARTSAD 5004 or ARTED
6030 or ARTED 5011.
ARTED 5103
Graduate Seminar IV: Social Theory for Artists and Cultural Workers
This seminar involves readings and discussions of works by twentieth-century
social theorists who have had or might have consequences for artists’
approaches to their own practices, as well as the interpretation of
artistic production in general. It is not intended to be a survey of
aesthetic theories, but rather will consider various questions concerning
social relations and institutions, as well as basic premises that inform
different conceptual approaches to these issues. Students will also
read work that deals with the production and consumption of art using
particular social-theoretical frameworks. Open to senior level students
and above.
ARTED 5105
Ethical and Pedagogical Issues: Cultural Workers and the Public Sphere
This course examines theoretical and practical issues implicit in the
conceptualization of the public sphere. Students explore social theory
through historical and contemporary models of community activism, grassroots
organizing, and other cultural work in relation to the contested space
of the public sphere. Students research and develop individual and collaborative
creative work including interviews, observations, and proposals for
an ethical community-based project. Prerequisites: Open to art education
graduate students or with permission of instructor.
ARTED 5106
Seminar: Art in Community: Collaborations
This seminar is a direct application of the theory and conceptual framework
for community-based art programming. Participants investigate new models
for making art in the community, collaborating with a prearranged Chicago
area audience, organization, and site. Collaborative art endeavors include
indoor and outdoor site-specific work, installations, environments,
performances, exhibitions, and special projects. Seminar sessions discuss
and reflect the ethics, aesthetics, and challenges of “public art”
in community. Open to all graduate students. Prerequisite: ARTED 5105
or ARTED 4015.
ARTED 5107
Public Spaces/Critical Sites
This course will explore public space in Chicago and how artists, artists’
collectives, schools and community art organizations create new contexts
for socially engaged art education. This includes community based media
production; collective mural making; and site-specific, collaborative
installations. In order to closely experience and experiment in these
new practices, students will visit 3–4 sites and participate in
hands-on workshops. The course will culminate in the production of a
site-specific art education project.
ARTED 5110
Thesis Tutorial
This course is designed for those students interested in further assistance
and guidance in the production of their master’s thesis. The course
must be preceded by Thesis I: Research and Methodologies or Thesis II,
and will further hone students skills in the areas of research methodology,
organization and argumentation, and content development. These skills
will be directly applied to the student’s thesis work. Strict progress
deadlines will be issued at the beginning of the semester, resulting
in either the further enhancement of a thesis proposal or the completion
of the thesis. Students will meet both individually with the instructor
and with their peers, to discuss and critique the on-going progress
of their theses. The course will also include on-site fieldwork and
research based on the goals and objectives of individual projects.
ARTED 5113
Teaching TV: Media Literacy
Increasingly, educators and artists are confronting and responding to
the social power of the mass media by using media analysis, criticism
and production. Media literacy is the teaching of both the “reading”
and “writing” of the mainstream media. The “reading”
of the media includes an understanding of the social and economic context
of mass media, the aesthetic conventions and formal genres of the media,
and the ability to apply a semiotic analysis to a variety of media texts.
Media “writing” is the process of production, which involves
the development of both theoretical and practical approaches. Students
will be exposed to a wide range of contemporary strategies of media
criticism, including analyses of the representation of race, gender,
class, sexuality, youth and the elderly. Media forms to be considered
include cinema, television, newspapers, magazines and the Internet.
The class will also consider alternative media production, including
independent community documentaries, video art, cable access productions,
‘zines, and artist/community web sites. The class will look at
models of media literacy strategies from the U.S., Canada, Latin America,
and Europe. Students will develop curricula for media literacy, reflecting
their own cultural and political imperatives. Open to senior level students
and above.
ARTED 5116
Seminar: Interpretation: Exploring Meaning and Identifying Bias
This seminar analyzes the relationship between cultural context and
systems of meaning, explores the challenges of nonbiased interpretation,
and examines the roles that educational institutions play in reproducing
or transforming culture. Multiple perspectives on art history, theory,
and criticism are investigated. Students learn to develop critical pedagogy
that explores and interprets the information and cultural values that
an object or art collection communicates. Course content includes philosophical
considerations, research recommendations, and presentation methodologies
for museum, school, community, and alternative audiences. Visiting historians
and Art Institute resources provide case materials. Open to graduate
level students only.
ARTED 5118
Seminar: Teaching Art at the College Level
A graduate-level seminar that addresses the complexities of teaching
and leading a studio art class at the college level. The group explores
teaching methods, including leading discussions and critiques, working
with groups and individuals, and demonstrating and presenting ideas.
This seminar is geared toward the student interested in teaching assistantships
as well as professional education. Visiting teachers, critiques, lectures,
discussions, and direct class experience are integral to this seminar.
Open to graduate level students only.
ARTED 5120
Histories, Theories, and Philosophies of American Public Education
This course provides an overview of the histories and practices of art
education and American public education from the pre-industrial era
to present. Students investigate philosophical and political theories
to better understand the matrix of connections between schooling, society,
ideology, and culture. Prerequisites: Open to art education graduate
students or with permission of instructor.
ARTED 5122
Graduate Seminar II: Practice
This seminar focuses on the psychology, anthropology, and economics
of learning in successful art education program development. Critical
issues in audience assessment, ethical perspectives, equitable approaches
to education for school, museum, community, alternative settings, and
technological applications are presented. Current trends in integrated,
interactive, multidisciplinary, and media-based learning methods are
analyzed. Supplemental resources include professional lecturers, field
trips, and field work. You must be a Master of Arts in Art Education
student to take this course.
ARTED 5125
Doing Democracy: Pedagogies of Critical Multiculturalism
This course provides an overview of historical, ideological, and economic
influences of white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy on democracy,
public life, and schooling. Students critically investigate prevalent
forms of multicultural education including conservative, plural, liberal,
essential, and critical theories and practices. Prerequisites: Open
to art education graduate students or with permission of instructor.
ARTED 5200
Cyberpedagogy
This course introduces students to philosophical, pedagogical, and practical
aspects of using electronic imaging and communications technology in
cultural production and art education. While teaching students to master
particular software and hardware, the course will also promote a critical
discussion of the social impact, aesthetic ramifications, and pedagogical
strategies of these technologies. Through their class projects, students
will engage in the hands-on production of images, the facilitation of
critical media education, and the organization of a digital teaching
portfolio. Prerequisites: Open to second semester MAT students, MAAE
students, or with permission of instructor.
ARTED 5210
Cyberpedagogy Laboratory
Cyberpedagogy Laboratory provides students who have basic skill in digital
media production, as well as a working knowledge of art education theory
and practice, with an opportunity to develop projects. Based on the
integration of critical pedagogy, media studies, and visual culture,
students will create lesson plans, collaborative projects, and new text(book)s
that address the new possibilities and problematics of art education
within global information technology systems. Media forms to be studied
and supported include video production, multi-media authoring, and website
construction.
ARTED 5211
Curriculum and Instruction: Resources and Methods
This course provides an overview of resources and pedagogical methods
for teaching visual culture in elementary and secondary public schools
taking into account local, state, and national standards. Students develop
age appropriate curricula and praxis including lesson and unit planning,
instructional strategies, and assessment procedures. Prerequisites:
Open to second semester MAT students or with permission of instructor.
ARTED 5220
Psychological, Sociological,
and Phenomenological Approaches to Teaching
This course provides an overview of psychological, sociological, and
phenomenological approaches to teaching visual culture to diverse populations.
Students investigate historical and current theories and philosophies
of human growth and development, creativity, artistic development, cognition,
and learning disabilities. Students observe, analyze, and evaluate a
variety of K–12 art experiences involving exceptional children.
Prerequisites: Open to second semester MAT students or with permission
of instructor.
ARTED 5290
Graduate Art Education Thesis: Research as Social Inquiry
This course introduces students to innovative approaches to research
and documentation including participatory and action research, interactive
and collaborative projects, and performative and new media based presentations.
Students develop original research projects that explore connections
between personal interest and experience, professional development and
praxis, discursive and performative practices, and historical and contemporary
scholarship. Prerequisites: Open to second semester MAT students or
with permission of instructor.
ARTED 5300
Colloquium: Dialogues on Art and Education
This course provides a forum for graduate students to discuss contemporary
social issues relevant to art education. The course is designed to augment
the graduate student's experience through readings, lectures, and dialogue
that may not be contained within other art education graduate coursework.
The colloquium will be self-directed, with readings and course schedule
developed by the students in concert with faculty advisors. Prerequisites:
Open to art education graduate students or with permission of instructor.
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