波尔州立大学

Ball State's bachelor's degree in art education provides dynamic and comprehensive training and licensure in the teaching of art at all levels. Our success rate with job placement is close to 100 percent every year.

The art education (teaching) major at Ball State prepares students for the challenges of today’s art classroom. Students earn an Indiana K-12 teaching license in art while learning the discipline-based method of art education.

As part of this method, you’ll develop your content fluency within an academically rigorous course of study that emphasizes the art disciplines of studio, criticism, art history, and aesthetics. Simultaneously, you’ll hone your teaching skills through courses dedicated to art-specific and general instructional methods, which are applied in classrooms in the local elementary, middle, and high schools.

What You Will Learn as an Art Education Major

The bachelor of science degree (68 credit hours) requires:

12 credit hours in art education courses
21 credit hours of art studio courses after the foundations core
36 credit hours of professional education

You’ll work directly with public school students as part of your fieldwork and gain real-world experience, which increases your marketability post-graduation. As a unique part of the program, you’ll teach Saturday Children’s Art Classes, for which you’ll plan, budget, and teach your own curriculum to community children.

Art education students earn a K-12 teaching certificate (license) in visual arts for the state of Indiana, allowing you to work at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Many states – including Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky – honor this certification.

What Can You Do with Art Education Degree?

Art education training prepares you for:

graduate school programs
careers in teaching at all levels
art therapy
arts administration
museum work
gallery ownership or curation
work in art libraries