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Are you called to share your love of art with others? Are you interested in enhancing the skills and tools that will guide children into a lifelong appreciation of the visual arts?

For working educators that hold licensure, the MAEd in art education is an entirely online program created to provide you with maximum flexibility. That said, we'd still like to meet you as you earn your degree. You're welcome to mix online course work with campus classes if you live near enough to do so.

Develop your leadership and mentoring skills, increase your knowledge of art, apply research to real-world experiences to improve classroom practice through action, enhance your skills in data collection and data use for diagnosis, planning, decision-making and evaluation, and build on your current teaching strengths.

ECU Advantage

Art education graduates of ECU need no introduction at schools in North Carolina and throughout the Southeast. East Carolina's School of Art and Design and School of Education are two of the finest programs of their kind on the East Coast. There's an excellent chance that one of your teachers studied at East Carolina.

What You Will Study

Program Coordinator: Cynthia Bickley-Green (1318 Jenkins Fine Arts Center; 252-328-1293; bickleygreenc@ecu.edu)

The Art Education, MAEd is the professional degree in art education. Applicants for the degree must possess at least the initial teaching license. Graduate certification requires demonstrated competence and recommendations from the certifying institution. The total time limit for completing the requirements for this degree is six years. Students interested in applying for admission to this degree program must submit a portfolio of slides of their work to indicate their competence in art. 

The degree requires a minimum of 33-36 s.h. as follows:

1. Required education courses - 15 s.h.
  • EDUC 6001 - Introduction to Differences in Human Learning in Schools
  • SPED 6002 - Addressing Differences in Human Learning in Schools
  • ART 6800 - History and Philosophy of Art Education
  • ART 6801 - Supervision of Art Education
  • ART 6898 - Research in Art Education
2. Electives - 12 s.h.
    a. Art electives - 9 s.h.
      b. Art history elective - 3 s.h.
      3. Final product requirement - 6-9 s.h.

      (Select one of the following options.)

        a. Thesis option - 6 s.h.

        The student may choose to do a thesis for 6 s.h. of credit. The thesis must be conventional research dealing with a significant problem in the field of art education.

        • ART 7000 - Thesis
        b. Non-thesis option - 9 s.h.

        The student may choose to take, in place of the thesis an additional 6 s.h. of art courses and 3 s.h. of electives and complete an art project with a faculty member. The final product of these courses is a cumulative project that demonstrates professional competence.

        For more information about this degree visit the university's academic catalogs.
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