Minor in Art and Design Education

• Disciplinary Knowledge and Skills • Proficiency in Industry-Standard Skills, Technologies, and Processes
  Competency across all Art Subject Matter Domains required by the CA Commission on Teaching Credentialing. 

• Cross-disciplinary awareness and practice
  Developed and equally valued practices as both educator and artist/designer.

• Audience-Focused Research, Historical Context, and Field-Specific Discourse
  Proficient knowledge about historical and current trends in educational theory and practice by engaging in comparative dialogues to determine how these forces shape teaching and learning today.
  Capacity to research K-12 schools, museum education departments, community arts centers, correctional facilities, therapeutic arts programs, and design companies focused on educational materials to gain insight into trends, values, standards and opportunities.

Art & Design Education Minor student work will demonstrate:

• Innovation • Experimentation and play • Challenge to the status quo • Bravery in their work and their interactions with others
  Ability to develop, and in some cases implement, in person and online projects for school and/or community settings that are innovative, engaging, developmentally appropriate, and culturally responsive, challenging the status quo of traditional art and design education.

Art & Design Education Minor student work will demonstrate:

• Self-awareness • Capacity to communicate (orally, written, and/or visually) about their practice
  Clearly articulate the relationships between their work in art and design education and their majors, and how these studies will help them achieve personal and professional goals. 

• Capacity to seek, assemble, evaluate, and ethically apply information and ideas from diverse sources
  including art and design examples for use in lesson plans, workshops and curricula.
• Analysis of both ethical and aesthetic impacts of art and design
  Make responsible decisions about the ethical and aesthetic impacts their work has on the students and communities they engage with.

Art & Design Education Minor student work will demonstrate:

• Ability to work well, collaborate, and build relationships across differences in identity, perspective, aesthetics and disciplines
  within a community of educators and learners.

• Integration of skills, information, and concepts
  Ability to synthesize and analyze the connections between history and theory of art and design education and community engagement and the realities of what happens in the classroom, studio and/or community setting.

Art & Design Education Minor student work will demonstrate:

• Ability to define aspirations, future goals and their role within the creative economy
  Clear statement of Teaching Philosophy and professional application materials for internships and jobs in the field of art and design education.

• Awareness of audience and ability to cultivate relationships with others in their chosen fields.
  Capacity to propose, plan, design and manage developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive lesson plans, curricula, course activities and events that cultivate and build professional social capital.

• Compelling presentation and exhibition skills, through Annual Exhibition, Capstone, and portfolios
  Professional teaching portfolio that includes lesson plans, internship documentation, teaching philosophy, and career goals. 
• Proficiency in budgeting, time and project management
  Develop an understanding of supply budgets and timing for demos, workshops, lesson plans, curricula and community projects.
• Career readiness, as evidenced by strong interpersonal skills, self-advocacy, adaptation, autonomy, initiative, and willingness to both receive and offer feedback as a pre-service educator.