CLASSES FOR TC STUDENTS
How to Search for AAE Courses
Courses in the Art & Art Education Program may or may not be offered every semester (Fall, Spring and Summer). To view and learn more information about the courses below, please visit TC's online course schedule. When you are directed to the online course schedule webpage, please follow these steps:
- Click on the Please select a term drop-down to click on the semester term you want to view courses for.
- Then, click on the Any subject drop-down and select A&HA (this is the code for the courses in the Art and Art Education Program).
- Lastly, click on the green Search button at the bottom of the menu list.
A list of all the courses in the Art and Art Education Program that given semester will appear.
This course will combine hands-on materials explorations, discussions of curriculum, presentations of students’ artwork, and instructional approaches that support artistic learning and its role in the overall growth and development of infants and young children. Students will explore a variety of art media and techniques and apply what they learn about the unique properties of materials to lesson plans that make meaningful connections between classroom curricula and the arts. Ways in which art experiences can be used to promote and enrich social studies, language arts, math, and science will be discussed throughout the sessions, as well as adaptations for children who come with diverse experiences and special needs. Discussions will include ways to motivate, communicate, and respond to children’s artwork.
A&HA 4078 - Credits: 2 or 3
Suggested for all students in all degree programs. Opportunity for in-depth and sustained exploration of the properties, structures, and expressive uses of selected art materials. The course aims to enrich and extend personal studio practice and, in parallel, provoke insights into the role of materials in supporting, integrating, and challenging the artistic growth of students in a variety of educational settings.
A&HA 4087 - Credits: 2 or 3
Recommended for all degree candidates in elementary education. An examination of the role of the senses, emotions, and intellect in artistic development and of the layered integrations they form over time. Discussion of ways in which developmental insights are basic to the design and implementation of exemplary visual arts lessons and offer critical starting points for research.
A&HA 4080 - Credits: 2 or 3
(Corequisite A&HA 4281) An examination of sensory, biological, affective, cognitive, and socio-cultural issues influencing continuing development in the visual arts. Discussion of ways in which developmental insights are basic to designing challenging lessons which enrich the growth and learning as well as offering critical starting points for research. Required of all candidates seeking New York State Art Certification K-12.
A&HA 4088 - Credits: 2 or 3
Required of art teacher certification majors. To be taken concurrently with A&HA 4080, Artistic Development of Children, and A&HA 4088, Artistic Development: Adolescence to Adulthood. Involves observations in schools of various types; videotaping of contrasting teaching styles and curricular approaches; analysis of perceptual, artistic, and societal assumptions implicit within programs observed.
A&HA 4281 - Credits: 1
In this course, students conduct independent-driven research in creative technologies to contribute to the field’s advancement. Under faculty supervision, students prepare their research for the course colloquium series. Students will consider hybrid practices, emerging research methodologies, and ethical implications of creative technologies. Addressing media theories and history, the course makes space for student research via inquiry-based projects that reach into communities within and beyond Teachers College.
A&HA 5120 - Credits: 3
An introduction to doctoral study and scholarly inquiry in Art and Art Education. Involves exploration of issues that are central to the field, and nurtures habits required of doctoral students/scholars.
A&HA 5504 - Credits: 3
Focus on interdisciplinary learning in the museum. This course prepares museum educators and classroom teachers to engage learners of various ages across a spectrum of disciplines and learning modalities within museum settings. Emphasis on how traditional curricular boundaries might be upended to create a cross and interdisciplinary learning centered on art objects and museum spaces.
A&HA 5804 - Credits: 2 or 3
An immersive course focused on inquiry learning across the art museum and the art studio. This course examines how inquiry-driven museum and studio experiences can inform and enrich each other, and how these processes matter in education and across disciplines. The qualities of generative gallery and studio teaching are considered.
A&H 4000 - Credits: 2 or 3
An immersion in the process of “storying” aspects of educational life and practitioner identity through various artistic processes, including studio work, interactive art viewing, and creative writing. A focus on how work across modalities influences the way we make sense of our lives and selves, how our oral, written, and visual life stories help us make sense of who we are - and who we want to be - as practitioners, and how multimodal, narrative meaning-making matter in the education of others.
A&H 4043 - Credits: 2 or 3