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The Art Education program is designed to help prepare effective art teachers for the community schools. It consists of studio, art history, art education, and education courses. These courses educate the future teacher in the various art content areas as well as develop the skills needed in making art, talking about art and planning art learning experiences. The California Visual and Performing Arts Framework and Model Curriculum Standards are important state documents that are utilized in the preparation of the CSULB student teachers. The art education classes all use a multi-faceted approach that integrates the four visual art disciplines of art production, art criticism, art history, and philosophical aesthetics. They also promote a cross-cultural exposure to art and examine the influences among artists from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds as well as the inclusion of both men and women artists. Although the studio and art history classes prepare the university students in the content and skills of art, the art education classes bring these aspects together in a model that provides approaches on how to educate young people in the schools.

Art Education arranges opportunities for its students (1) to get experiences within the community schools through observation and teaching sessions, (2) to meet with former and present student teachers for discussions, (3) to work in educational events with local art museums, and (4) to network with one another in the preparation for teaching. The Long Beach State Student Chapter of the National Art Education Association is a strong organization which plans and executes projects that involve its members in worthwhile experiences.

The Art Education Resource Room provides up-to-date learning materials that are published for elementary, middle school, and high school use. This includes many art reproductions that can be utilized in art learning exercises.

Student Learning Outcome Goals

Majors will be familiar with basic expressive, technical and technological, procedural and organizational skills, along with the conceptual insights developed through studio art and design experiences.
Majors will possess a working knowledge of styles and periods of art history; analytical methods and theories of criticism; the development of past and contemporary art forms; contending philosophies of art; and the fundamental and integral relationships of all these to the making of art.
Majors will possess specialized experience working in one or more studio and/or art application areas at the advanced level.
Majors will possess functional knowledge in such areas as the physics of light, chemistry of pigments, the chemical and thermal aspects of shaping materials, and the basic technologies involved in printmaking, photography, filmmaking, and video.
Majors will gain an understanding of child development and the identification and understanding of psychological principles of learning as they relate to the art education of students with a wide range of learning abilities.
Majors will possess an understanding of the philosophical and social foundations underlying art in education and the ability to express a rationale for personal attitudes and beliefs.
Majors will develop knowledge of current methods and materials available in all fields and levels of art education, and will obtain the ability to accept, amend or reject methods and materials based on personal assessment of specific teaching situations.
Majors will possess a basic understanding of the principles and methods of developing curricula and the short- and long-term instructional units that comprise them.
Majors will gain an understanding of evaluative techniques and the ability to apply them in assessing both the progress of students and the objectives and procedures of the curriculum, as well for self-evaluation and professional growth.