F Art Education in Early Childhood (formerly CDES 123AF)

Catalog description

36 hours lecture per term. This course examines the teacher's role in children's artistic growth. Emphasis is on the child as the artist, learner and creator of ideas. Students explore, analyze, and experience artistic studio processes that support children's use of art as a tool for communication, thinking, understanding and learning. Students gain observational skills at the Child Development and Educational Studies Department Laboratory Instructional Classrooms. Field trips may be required outside of regularly scheduled class times. Senate Bill 792 requires proof of current immunizations for Measles, Pertussis, and Influenza (optional), as well as a negative TB test to participate in this course. (Degree Credit) (CSU)