TIFFIN UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Minimum Course Content Guide
Course Number: ART515
Course Name: Teaching College
Art
Prerequisite: None
Course Description: This course investigates
the practical issues and challenges of teaching art in a college setting,
including teaching studio art, art appreciation, and art history. Students will
learn to develop effective syllabi, identify and articulate learning
objectives, design effective projects, teach with artifacts and objects,
facilitate engaging discussions, methods of assessment in the arts, and the
critique process. Students will develop a portfolio that includes a teaching
philosophy, syllabi, and sample lesson plans. Problem solving on the individual
and group level will be stressed. Note that this course will require several
scheduled Live Chat sessions. Offered
every Summer. (3 hour)
Goals:
- To
develop a syllabus
- To lead
a critique
- To be
able to articulate how to plan and implement teaching strategies in
relation to specific learning objectives, and how to assess if the
learning objectives were met
- To
explore different strategies for engaging students with visual art
Evaluations:
Evaluations will be a series of
papers, group projects, and portfolio of teaching materials.
Minimum Topic Outline:
- Syllabus
construction
- Effective
discussions and engaging lectures
- Teaching
with objects and artifacts
- Defining
course goals and objectives
- Assessment
in the arts
- Developing
assignments in the arts
Potential Textbooks:
Greene, Maxine, Variations on a Blue Guitar: The Lincoln
Center Institute Lectures on Aesthetic Education, 2001
Dewey, John, Art as
Experience, 2005
Rodolf Arheim, Visual
Thinking, 1997
Buster, Kendall and Paula Crawford, The Critique Handbook, 2010
Carnegie Units (135 hours):
Reading 30 hours
Discussion Boards 45 hours
Research 20 hours
Writing 30 hours
Group Projects 15 hours
Live Chats 8 hours
Total: 148
Lead Instructor: Lee Fearnside
Created: Mar. 2012
Updated: Sept. 2012
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