BA Art Education

The Art Education Major is an intensive degree program that prepares students to teach in K-12 settings. Students build skills in many materials through hands-on assignments that include painting and drawing as well as fibers, ceramics and stained glass. Students also take courses in the education department, student teaching and prepare for Praxis exams required to teach in the state of Pennsylvania that is also accepted in other states.In the Art Education program, there are many opportunities to engage in the arts beyond the classroom, such as:The proximity to Pittsburgh, which allows students access to nationally-recognized artistic organizations.The Verostko Center for the Arts, which hosts temporary exhibitions of regionally and nationally recognized artists and the senior exhibitions of graduating art students,.The Foster and Muriel McCarl Collection of 19th-century American coverlets (housed in the Fred Rogers Center) is an important resource for American craft and history.