Creative Arts for the Young Child

Catalog description

Three lecture. Evaluating and designing developmentally appropriate activities for the young child. Emphasis given to visual arts, dramatic play, creative music and movement, exploration and discovery. Students will be able to: define creative arts and design a learning environment for creative arts; identify theoretical perspectives of child development and utilize these theories in case studies; summarize the affective domain of development in the young child; define and evaluate the teacher’s role in the creative arts; design a developmentally appropriate activity; specify the key elements of the process approach to the creative arts; relate divergent thinking with the process approach to learning.