Welcome to the BSc. Art Education - Art Education K-12 Teacher Licensure

The B.S. program in Art Education provides you with dynamic, hands-on, career preparations to teach art with licensure and non-licensure options. The program offers you a wealth of opportunities to learn how to teach art in schools and community settings. You will work closely with art education faculty, mentoring teachers, and K-12 students. The Art Education curriculum is rich with studio art courses and creative opportunities to prepare you as a teaching-artist. You will become knowledgeable of diverse art media techniques and processes, art history, and art inquiry methods necessary to teach students and guide your own creative practices. The Art Education K-12 Teacher Licensure Concentration provides art education majors with career and graduation choices, including a minor in Secondary Education, required for licensure. Working full-time in K-12 classrooms with mentoring teachers during the Residency 2 semester provides time-intensive, supervised teaching experiences for preservice teachers to build confidence in their teaching and assessment abilities, hone best teaching practices, and develop effective methods for managing K-12 students, art materials, and equipment in art classroom environments.

Career Path

MTSU Art Education graduates are highly successful in the job market. Their employment as professional art educators includes working in public and private PreK–12 schools, museums, community art organizations, and after-school programs. Some pursue specializations in museum education, arts administration, and artist-in-residency programs.