Moore College of Art and Design

The MA in Art Education program with an emphasis in special populations prepares candidates to critically assess and challenge existing art education policies and practices. Because of the program’s unique curriculum, candidates gain specific skills and resources to strengthen the learning environment through the use of art for exceptional students including individuals with disabilities, the gifted and the elderly. The program fosters research-based and experiential based learning as candidates develop and test innovative and adaptive teaching strategies inprofessional field settings.

Registration Deadline for Summer 2009: February 1, 2009

This four semester, 15 month, program is calendared to support working professionals who are available for intensive full-time study for six-weeks during two concentrated summer terms and concentrated weekend intensives during the fall and spring term.

Seminars, lectures, independent study and peer-presentations provide opportunities to experience multiple modes of instruction. Guest speakers, field trips scheduled throughout the program and an annual symposium featuring regional and national experts focus on current issues facing the combined fields of art and special education.

A required field practicum provides a critical opportunity to test the thesis question. Candidates are required to present and defend their thesis in which they designed, researched and assessed an essential question related to the study of art education. The culminating event includes an exhibition of the thesis process, research, implementation and conclusion. The written thesis is presented and defended during the exhibition in The Galleries at Moore

Symposium

Annual symposium scheduled to feature regional and national experts focusing on current issues facing the combined fields of art and special education.