Oct 18, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

Art Education, Grades K-12, B.A.

Location(s): West Palm Beach Campus (Day)


126 Credit Hours


Certification

This major prepares students for the temporary certification which is required to begin teaching in the state of Florida and which may later be upgraded to full professional certification. To be eligible for temporary certification, a student must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited or approved institution and meet the guidelines required by the Florida Department of Education. http://www.fldoe.org/edcert/

Program Learning Outcomes


“Expected student learning outcomes specify the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes students are expected to attain in courses or in a program.” Page 69. Resource Manual for the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), 2018.

1. Develop future art educators who demonstrate knowledge of professional education practices.

2. Develop future art educators who demonstrate knowledge of art education practices.

3. Develop future art educators who demonstrate various teaching abilities/skills.

4. Students demonstrate competencies for creating and presenting studio and/or graphic art.

Graduation Requirements


Conferral of a Baccalaureate degree in this program of study is determined by successful completion of the Baccalaureate Graduation Requirements outlined here .

NOTE: Students must earn 39 upper level (3000-4000) credit hours in order to graduate. A total of at least 21 of these upper level credit hours must be completed in the selected major.

Visit this program’s information page  for additional program-specific requirements.

Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) - 43 Credit Hours


The Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Fine Arts, Global Studies, and Social Science requirements are fulfilled through other courses in this major. Only 35 of the 43 credit hours of the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Program will still be required for the completion of this program.

Art Education Major - 85 Credit Hours


Core Art Courses - 20 Credit Hours


Fulfills the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Fine Arts requirement.

Additional Required Credit Hours - 6 Credit Hours


These additional hours may be fulfilled by a minor, second major, general electives taken concurrently, previous coursework taken at PBA or through transfer credits.

Sample Degree Plan


Art Education K-12 Degree Plan