Aesthetics in Education: Arts Integration

Kinesthetic Learning Course: Experiental Methods & Practices

Catalog Description: Examination, application, and analysis of the methods and benefits of the kinesthetic teaching style; including educational theory, purpose, and practice. Students will conduct research projects that involve designing, developing, and implementing psychomotor, cognitive, and affective skill building lesson plans using kinesthetic methods. Attending a live dance performance is required. Offered annually. Course Overview: This is a research course with a service learning component. The class format includes lecture and discussion, reading the text and recommended handouts, viewing videos, studio work, and practical experiences at the college and in community settings in the form of service learning projects. Learning…

Sculpture in the Social Field SL Course

Course Description: This is a studio course designed to provide the beginning sculpture student with a foundation in sculptural processes and theories that contribute to the current field of sculpture with an emphasis on social practice, viewer participation, and broad inclusion. In this class we will work to define a field of sculpture and then survey its aspects, including process, material, ethics, historical contributions, the current zeitgeist (look it up, it will be on the quiz), and professional practices. Students will create elementary and advanced spatial constructions using a variety of tools, materials, and methods as the above topics are…

Visual Art & Social Entrepreneurship SL Course

COURSE UNDERPININGS Social entrepreneurs are innovators who focus on designing and creating concrete products and services that address social needs and problems. Unlike scalable startups the goal of a social entrepreneur is to seed awareness of organizer collaboration and effective business models for creating micro-enterprise. The Chesapeake Arts Center (CAC) located in the middle of the community will serve as a secure place to foster, stimulate and sustain the “culture” of place through the management of an accessible maker-space and workshop. The culture of Brooklyn-Curtis Bay (southeast Baltimore City) and northeast Anne Arundel County is fragmented and complicated by the…

US/Brazil Consortia Seminar: Sustainability in Urban Communities of Poverty

Introduction/Background This seminar will be the final of three annual fall courses addressing the revitalization of Syracuse’s Near Eastside Neighborhood. Students and faculty will work hand-in-hand with Eastside Neighbors in Partnership (ENIP), a community development organization that works with a severely challenged neighborhood on the city’s east side. The seminar is a component of the US/Brazil Design Research Consortia, which includes ESF, two Brazilian universities (the University of Brazil and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SuI) and Perul State. These four programs have been working together for the past three years to explore the multi-faceted topic of “Sustainable Urban…

Arts and Community Development

INTRODUCTION This course utilizes the principles of academic Service-Learning to introduce students to the theory and practice of the arts as a vehicle for community-cultural development. As part of the course, the students will undertake fieldwork and research in an arts-based community project through direct contact and collaboration with established community based organizations (CBOs) that have within each of their missions explicit goals of community-cultural development. The instructors have identified and established partnerships with five CBO’s in Chicago, each of which has expressed a felt-need for increased research into the work they conduct to enhance tbe impact their efforts have…

Curriculum Models and Assessment in Art

Kennesaw State University School of the Arts/Bagwell College of Education ARED 4410 Curriculum Models and Assessment in Art I. INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Sandra Bird Office in VA: 232 Office phone: 770-423-6435 Email: sbird@kennesaw.edu Office hours: MW 10 to 11, or by appointment II. TEXTS AND SUPPLIES: Dunn, P. (1995). Creating Curriculum in Art. Reston, VA: The National Art Education Association. Some readings/research will be available via internet. Additional readings will be copied and distributed to students. III . CATALOG DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to prepare prospective art teachers to be able to plan and organize effective art programs and curricula,…

Development of Literacy in the Visual Arts

California State University, Los Angeles ART 400 Development of Literacy in the Visual Arts (with service learning) Instructor: Dr. Carol Jeffers, Professor of Art Education Office/Hours: FA 357, Mon./Wed. 2-4 pm Phone/Fax/Email: 323-343-4021, 323-343-4045, gjeffers3@aol.com or cjeffer@calstatela.edu Course Objectives: 1) To empower students (pre service teachers) to connect meaningfully with art and understand it as the carrier of social, cultural, political, spiritual themes; to understand art as the teller and creator of human stories, great and small. 2) To empower students to connect meaningfully with area youngsters through art and to gain experience in facilitating the children’s learning during their…

Visual Rhetoric

Visual Rhetoric Professor: Dr. Brooke Hessler Email: bhessler@okcu.edu Box: Walker Center (WC) 248 Office: WC 214 Office Hours: MWF 10-11 AM and by appt. Office Phone: 405-521-5330 Course Purpose & Scope Our course is an enriched version of Composition II designed to challenge you to communicate visually as well as textually. Through a series of individual and collaborative research and writing projects, you will: Extend the academic research and writing knowledge you learned in Composition I (including the development and analysis of summaries, reports, and arguments); Employ a range of rhetorical strategies to analyze and create visual texts; Identify and…

Community Projects in the Arts and Humanities

Email: scobey@umich.edu T, Th 10-11:30 Ostafin Room, West Quad Arts of Citizenship: 232C West Hall This course is an experiment in community-based teaching and learning. On the one hand, it is a practicum for collaborative public projects in the arts and humanities; on the other hand, it is a seminar that explores the significance of culture in community life and the promise and problems of collaboration between universities and communities to create new cultural resources. The Projects Practicum: This section of UC 313 sponsors four projects, all organized by the UM Arts of Citizenship Program. Each of you will work…

Seminar in American Architecture: Landscape, History, and Public Culture

Tuesdays 7-10 PM Class: 2227 AA Email: scobey@umich.edu Office: 3126 AA OVERVIEW: How is history represented or effaced in the built and natural environment? What role do historical narrative and historical awareness play in public culture, so that stories about the past become expressions of present-day values and conflicts? How does social memory inform processes of city-building, and how might it inform landscape design? This seminar explores the links among place-making, historical consciousness, and public culture. It will explore such topics as cultural landscape studies, the relation of place to community identity, the role of historical narrative in public discourse,…

Creative Arts for the Young Child

ECE 156 – 001 Fall 2002 Instructor: Mellisa A. Clawson, Ph.D. Office Location: 201A Franklin Hall E-mail: mellisa.clawson@maine.edu Class Meetings: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30 1:45 p.m. Office Hours: Monday 2:00 4:00 p.m., Tuesday 9:30 11:30 a.m., Thursday 10:30 11:30 a.m. (These hours are set the first two weeks of classes only; regularly scheduled hours will be announced in class). Required Text: There is no required text for this course. Articles will be distributed in class. (Please see the List of Readings below). Course Overview: The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with approaches to the creative arts in…

Art and Architecture – Integrative Field Experience

Fall/Winter 1999 Mon. and Wed., 1 1/2 hours between 1:30 and 4:30 (to be set in the first weeks of class), and arranged times. Number of credits is most likely 3, but will be determined depending on the number in the class and the work plan. Urban planning students must take 6 credits for this course by the end of the school year. Other students may take the course for 3 credits for one semester with an appropriate work plan and permission of the instructor. Classroom to be arranged, Art and Architecture Bldg. This class will work as a community…

The Community Design Center Workshop

ARC 500-2 Community Design Center Workshop. (CDC)Advisor: Pamela Heintz, Center for Public and Community Service (CPCS)Leadership Intern: Joseph Ho (CDC), Brian Howells (CPCS)3 Credit Hours SCHEDULE: Monday – 6:00 – 9:00pmLOCATION: Room 302, Slocum Hall workshop/studio or otherwise as notedOFFICE HOURS: Office 417A Wednesday and Friday, 10:00am – 12:00am(Additional hours by appointment) The Community Design Center will operate out of room 302 in Slocum Hall. The room is outfitted with eight drawing tables, a conference table, files for research, slide projectors for presentations and a computer for word processing. The room is to be used specifically for projects undertaken within…