Program Overview

Art Education Degree

Program Overview

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Art Education is a four-year program that prepares innovative arts education professionals for a dynamic educational landscape. The program focuses on critical inquiry, creative research, and transformative making, with an emphasis on intersectional perspectives and implications for just and sustainable futures.

Program Highlights

• Caring, critical, committed faculty members invested in nurturing innovative art educators.
• Dedicated art education learning and teaching spaces, including two large art studios, three computer labs, a workshop, and a visual resources library.
• Opportunities to collaborate with local school districts and observe how art teachers work with available resources in actual school settings.
• Unique partnerships with the African American Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Meadows Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Greater Denton Arts Council.
• The College of Visual Arts and Design is one of the nation's most comprehensive visual arts schools and one of the best in the Southwest.
• The UNT Art Gallery offers 2,500 square feet of exhibition space with a permanent collection of 182 works and a lending collection of 974 works.

Career Opportunities

The B.F.A. in Art Education prepares students for careers as art teachers at the early childhood, elementary, middle, or high school levels, as well as careers in community art programs and other educational facilities. Training may also be applied to careers with nonprofit arts organizations and serve as a foundation for advanced study in related fields, such as museum education.

Program Requirements

• 120 credit hours
• Estimated time to complete: 4 years
• Format: On-campus

Marketable Skills

• Instructional planning
• Pedagogical practices
• Assessment of learning
• Implementation of standards-based curriculum
• Oral and written communication

Program Courses

• Art Education: Foundations (3 hrs)
• Art Education: Elementary Art Education Practices (3 hrs)
• Art Education: Secondary Art Education Practices (3 hrs)
• Art Education: Global Aesthetics (3 hrs)
• Art Education: Computer Art Applications (3 hrs)
• Art Education: Inquiry and Dialogue about Art (3 hrs)

Related Programs

• Art Education M.A.
• Art Education Ph.D.

Similar Areas of Study

• Arts & Design
• Education
• Humanities & Social Sciences

Department Information

• Department of Art Education
• Art Building, Room 230