Degrees for Education

The Childhood Studies Minor, initiated in 1999, provides an educational opportunity for undergraduate students interested in a wide array of issues concerning children and the experience of childhood. The minor focuses on the life stages of infancy through adolescence but also includes issues of parenting, gender, and the place of children in society and culture.

Studies of the life cycle have earned CWRU national and international recognition. Cutting edge research and teaching on both children and the elderly is widely evident on campus. Studies of childhood and child development are important in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as in other sections of the campus including the School of Medicine and the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. Significant contributions to childhood issues also come from the School of Law, the School of Dentistry, and the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. Close connections with Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, the Center for Adolescent Health in the School of Medicine, the Hanna Perkins Center, and other Cleveland institutions enhance the educational opportunities for students at CWRU. In addition, the Helen and Leland Schubert Center for Child Studies sponsors research and conferences on child development, and the Armington Program for the Study of Social and Moral Values in Children supports research and lectures on children’s issues.

The undergraduate and graduate degree programs in art education are given jointly with the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Art education majors have the advantage of pursuing their academic studies in a university environment and their studio studies at a professional art school which educates artists and designers.

Students participate in educational field experiences conducted in many of greater Cleveland’s urban, suburban and rural school systems, its hospitals, museums and cultural institutions. Graduates of the University’s art education programs have pursued careers as teachers, supervisors and consultants in public and private schools, colleges, art schools and museums; as administrators of galleries and art organizations; as art therapists in hospitals and community centers; as designers of educational programs for industry; and as practicing artists.