Art Education
The Art Education area provides students in the College of Education with courses that will prepare them to successfully teach art at the various grades of the Public School system and qualify for a Provincial Teaching Certificate. Students in the BEd Primary or Middle years programs must take a Music Education or Art Education class. Those choosing Art Education must take either EdArt 301.3 (Primary) or EdArt 311.3 (Middle years). Students in the Secondary program must take EdArt 331.3. Students must obtain onr of these three classes as a compulsory requirement for the Provincial Teaching Certificate.
This area also includes teaching or supervising the Art Education classes for the Indian Teacher Education Program (ITEP), the Northern Teacher Education Program (NORTEP) based in La Ronge, and the Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Program (SUNTEP) of the Gabriel Dumont Institute. All of these programs are designed to produce students with a BEd degree focusing on elementary education.
Currently the Art Education area consists of one full-time tenured faculty and a number of sessional instructors.
Objectives of the Art Education Area
The Art Education courses are comprehensive and designed to educate students in both the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching art in the schools.
Art Education classes provide students with a solid foundation for their future careers as school teachers or in related fields such as gallery educators, art therapists, community workers, among other actvities.
Classes in Art Education are taught in a designated Art Education lab/studio - Room 1019 in the College of Education building. A former horticulture lab, the room is large and well lit, with sinks, work benches, hand tools and plenty of storage shelving and cupboards. Two side rooms open off the main space; one of these side rooms is used to house a ceramic kiln and clay drying area, the other room is used to store paper and art supplies. Students in Art Education classes who are also enrolled in studio classes in the Department of Art and Art History have access to a wide range of art production facilities