Art & Technology | Art Education | Graphic Design | Art History | Studio Art | Art Therapy | 3-D Media (sculpture/clay/metals) | 2-D Media (painting/drawing) | Visual Arts Management | Minor in Art | Self-Design Major

Do you enjoy working with people—children, adolescents, adults?
Do you think you are now or could become a leader? Are you convinced of the importance of creative experience in the healthy development of all human beings? Do you personally enjoy the challenges of visual expression?

If you answered "yes" to the above questions you have the potential to become an outstanding art teacher. The ART EDUCATION program at Seton Hill combines a strong liberal arts education with state-of-the-art art teacher preparation.

Excellent studio instruction, comprehensive art history instruction, exposure to studies in criticism and aesthetics, combined with opportunities to work with children and adolescents, will have you graduating from Seton Hill as an exceptionally competent art educator.

Stuart R. Thompson, Ph. D.

Professor of Art & Education

Seton Hill University

Required Foundation Courses:

AR105 History of Western Art

AR110 History of Western Art

AR115 Drawing

AR120 Design I (2-Dimensional)

AR215 Drawing (figure)

AR220 Design II (3-Dimensional)

AR255 Painting

AR260 Sculpture

AR375 History of Non-Western Art

ED110 Foundations of Education and School Law + Practicum

ED118 Principles of Instructional Technologies

ED201 Instructional Strategies for Inclusive Education

ED205 Introduction to the Exceptional Children

ED315 Art in Secondary Education + Practicum

ED316 Art in Elementary Education + Practicum

ED340 Classroom Management & Parent Conferencing

ED434 Student Teaching

ED435 Student Teaching Seminar

EL266 American Literature from 1800 to 1915 OR

EL267 American Literature from 1915 to the Present

PL320 Philosophy of Art

PY225 Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence + Lab


3 credits from:

AR135* Black and White Photography

AR190 Introduction to Graphic Design

AR 265 Printmaking

AR 271 Computer for the Fine Artist

3 credits from:


AR125 Clay

AR245 Metalsmithing

6 credits from:

AR200 Renaissance Art

AR205 20th Century Art I

AR210 20th Century Art II

AR370 American Art

Studio Concentration:

A second studio course in one of the following:

Painting, Sculpture, Clay, Metalsmithing, Photography,
Graphic Design, Printmaking, Digital Artmaking

OR

Two studio courses in ONE area from:

Calligraphy, Fibers, Illustration, Media Art 3 or

6 credits from:

Mathematics courses numbered 100 or higher