Programs of study

Art Education

Art Education prepares highly qualified teachers of art for instruction in elementary and secondary schools by providing challenging course work in pedagogy, curriculum content, and assessment consistent with the national, state, and local standards and goals.

The graduate program in art education provides students with an opportunity to further their knowledge through investigation and research of current issues and curriculum in art education and to pursue their creative work in the studios.

Art History

Art History provides students with an understanding of the field of art history and of Western and non-Western visual traditions from pre-history to the present.

This program provides extensive experience in oral and written communication through research and oral presentation.

Ceramics

Ceramics provides students with the technical and aesthetic foundations of ceramic art. The Ceramic program establishes skills in constructing ceramic work and creates an understanding of firing and relevant chemistry.

Painting

Painting establishes skills in liquid media as well as media independently researched by individual students and enhances an understanding of art history and visual production by teaching traditional painting techniques.

Photography

Photography fosters a historical and pragmatic understanding of lens-based art making. Photography develops skills in multiple photographic formats, darkroom technologies, and investigates Digital Photographic techniques.

Printmaking

Printmaking applies print processes to contemporary problems and historical paradigms. This area also establishes a skill set of traditional print processes such as monotype, intaglio, lithography, and relief printing.

Sculpture

Sculpture fosters a broad historical and contemporary understanding of three-dimensional art. Sculpture establishes an understanding of concepts and approaches in 3-D production.