The Art Education major offers a Bachelor of Arts degree and prepares an individual for New Jersey State Art Teacher Certification, kindergarten through twelfth grade. The required curriculum includes a full range of art education, art studio, and art history courses. Students are given opportunities to experience actual classroom environments and situations through observations and/or teaching practicum in the sophomore, junior and senior years. This major, housed in TCNJ, which is an accredited institutional member of the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP) and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), is designed to prepare the student as both artist and teacher. Required studio courses include 2-D, 3-D, 4-D, visual thinking, drawing, and painting. Students create their own path of studio study through the programming of three additional 200-level intermediate studio courses and three 300-level advanced content courses. These courses and the required Foundations in Art Education, Curriculum in Art Education, Pedagogy in Art Education, and Clinical Practice I lead to student Clinical Practice II. A full semester of student teaching offers experiences at both elementary and secondary levels.
School of Education Basic Skills Requirements
- SAT scores: Verbal 560 Math 540 (Tests taken 4/1/1995 – 2/28/2016)
- SAT scores: Verbal 610, Math 570 (Tests taken on or after 3/1/2016)
- ACT scores: English 23, Math 23
- Pass Praxis Core: Academic Skills for Educators All 3 sections; Reading 156, Math 150, Writing 162
*For more information, please contact the Certification Office on campus.
College Core
- IDS 102: Information Literacy Proficiency
- FYW 102: First-Year Writing
- FYS: First-Year Seminar
- Mid-Level Writing-Intensive Course
- Writing-Intensive Senior Capstone 0r Third-Level Course
*Students must complete all addition college core requirements required by the college
Field Placement ( 1 unit)
- EDU 96: Field Placement Preparation
Art Secondary Education Requirements (11 units)
- AMM 99: ArtsComm Seminar
- AAH 101: Art History I – Caves to Cathedrals
- AAH 102: Art History II – Renaissance to Revolution
- AAV 111: Drawing
- AAV 102: Visual Thinking
- AAV 112: 2D Design and Color Theory
- AAV 113: 3D
- AAV 140: 4D
- Non-Western Ary History
- AAH 253: 20th Century Art
- AAV 215: Painting I
- SPE 203: Psychology Development of Child & Adole
AAV 2XX Studio Option or AAV 130 Photo course (6 units)
Complete 3 courses from list: AAV 2XX Studio
- AAV 130: Photography I
- AAV 221: Drawing II
- AAV 213: Sculpture I
- AAV 214: Printmaking I
- AAV 216: Fiber Art
- AAV 217: Ceramics
- AAV 218: Book Arts
- AAV 230: Photo II: Documentary
- AAV 231: Studio Lighting: Photography
- AAV 232: Image and Narrative
Complete two advanced 3## AAV courses
- AAE 370: Topics in Art Education
- AAV 311: Drawing III
- AAV 313: Sculpture II
- AAV 314: Printmaking II
- AAV 315: Painting II
- AAV 330: Photo III: Image & Narrative
- AAV 331: Advance Projects in Photo
- AAH 300 Level Courses
Complete either 1 course in AAV 3XX or AAH 3XX
- AAE 370: Topics in Art Education
- AAV 311: Drawing III
- AAV 313: Sculpture II
- AAV 314: Printmaking II
- AAV 315: Painting II
- AAH 300 Level Courses
- 400 Level Courses
Art Secondary Education Sequence (7 units)
- AAE 200: Sophomore Review (0 units)
- AAE 220: Foundations in Art Education
- AAE 250: Curriculum in Art Education
- AAE 330: Pedagogy in Art Education
- AAE 360: Clinical Practice I: Art Education (2 course units)
- AAE 490: Clinical Practice II: Art Education Student Teaching or 491/Global Clinical Practice II: Art Education Student Teaching (2 course units)
- AAE 492: Clinical Practice II Seminar: Art Education Capstone