Degrees for Education

The Department of Art Education—Visual Arts offers programs of professional training and development in art teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Art education as a discipline aims to develop the student as artist, art teacher and art education researcher. This educative process centers on understanding and empowerment through making and responding to art which reflects the socio-cultural and historical context in which we live.

Graduates of the course will be four-year-trained specialist secondary school educators who are critically reflective professional practitioners, knowledgeable in their specialist content area and who are able to operate effectively in a variety of secondary educational contexts in which they find themselves.

Curriculum areas available in the course consist of Agriculture, Design and Technology, Drama, English, Information Technology, LOTE (Languages Other Than English), Mathematics, PDHPE (Physical Development Health Physical Education), Science, Society and Environment, Teacher Librarianship and Visual Art.

The Master of Arts in Visual Studies is created for working adults who desire professional involvement in the arts as artists, art teachers, arts administrators and in gallery and museum work. This 34-credit program provides exploration and analysis of a wide range of traditional and non-traditional ideas, materials, and designs.

If you are an art educator, artist, or are otherwise involved in the art world our goal is to further your development in technical competencies and visual insights.