K-12 Licenses: Art Education

The K-12 art education license is completed at the College of Saint Catherine. Students will graduate from Hamline and complete student teaching as a post-baccalaureate candidate at St. Catherine’s. Art requirements are met through Hamline University with additional required courses taken through St. Catherine's.

All teaching candidates are advised that completion of the program within a four-year time frame requires careful planning. If you seek a license to teach, please seek early advising from the School of Education to plan your program.

The Licensure Requirements Form lists a full description of the required courses and tests.

Education courses:
EDU 3150 Schools and Society
EDU 3250 Educational Psychology
EDU 5620 Education and Cultural Diversity
EDU 5640 Families, Schools and Communities
EDU 5690 Theory to Practice 5-8
EDU 5710 Teaching Literacy in the Middle and High Schools
EDU 5720 Exceptionality
EDU 5750 Teaching in Secondary Schools

Education/art education courses (through St. Catherine's):
EDUC 325 Focus Studies in Elementary Art Education
EDUC 365 Current Issues in Education
EDUC 376 Special Methods: Grades 7-12 Teaching of Art
EDUC 389 Student Teaching & Seminar in Art: Secondary
EDUC 390 Student Teaching & Seminar in Art: Elementary

Choose one of the following two:
PHIL 290 Philosophy of Art (St. Catherine) or PHI 3340 Philosophy of Art (Hamline)

Studio art courses
ART 1130 Drawing and 2-D Design
ART 1140 Beginning Life Drawing
ART 1010 (offered through ACTC at College of St. Catherine)
ART 5820 Advanced Drawing or ART 3880 Mixed Media
Junior year portfolio review at the College of St. Catherine
ART 5950 Senior Seminar

Art electives:
One course in each of the following studio areas: painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, technology, fibers
One intermediate and one advanced level course in a major studio area (for a total of three in the chosen area)
Participation in a senior exhibition and major review

Four courses in Art History, including:
ARTH 1200 Western Traditions: Prehistory to the Middle Ages
ARTH 1210 Western Traditions: Renaissance to Contemporary
ARTH 3910 Twentieth Century Art in Europe and the United States
Two electives above 3000 Level

See the K-12 art education licensure requirements form for a full description of the required courses and tests.