MAT in Art Education Information Sheet



The MAT in Art Education is meant to serve those persons who hold a  BFA
or equivalent degree and who now desire to attain teacher certification K-12
in Art.  This is coordinated with the Master's degree program and would
require 36 hours of graduate level coursework to fulfill the programmatic
requirements.  

The following issues are addressed for potential applicants:

Students must fulfill certain requirements for State Ed to be eligible for 
certification.  

Note: We offer a degree, State Ed offers certification!  Therefore, to
fulfill State Ed. requirements in

	1)  Ed. Psych - the coursework will be embedded within the Art Ed 	
	    Methods course as it is fundamental to teach about the 		
	    developmental stages of children and their art products.
            By embedding this requirement within coursework, we will save
	    the student 3 hrs of UG coursework.

	2)  Drug & child abuse (typically HSC 241) must be taken at an 		
	    undergraduate numbered course.  Possibly a distance learning 		
            course  will meet this need.  Or, BOCES often offers such a
	    workshop culminating with a certificate for approx. $20.00

	3)  The Specific Art Education Methods course will be a 6 credit
	    course.  3 hrs of it will be an urban elementary field
   	    experience that will function as a component of their student
	    teaching requirement, since art teacher certification is for
	    K-12.  

	4)  The main student teaching experience will be for 6 graduate
credits in 
		a secondary school to be supervised by  Art Education
		faculty  or School of Ed faculty, or in consultation with
Art Faculty as desired.  In addition to student teaching, an action 
research paper must be submitted for a grade at the end of the 
experience.  

	5)  Art History foundation must be in place upon admittance to the
		program.  If applicant has less than 9hrs of art history, 		
	
		they will be required to take additional courses to meet 		
	
		these minimum standards, in addition to program 			
	
		requirements. 

	6)  To be admitted to the program, students must have an 			
		undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or take the GRE's. All applicants 		
		must submit a portfolio of 10 slides of recent work, 1/2
of 	
	
		which are to be in sphere of interest, and the other 1/2
to 	
	
		indicate versatility in media use.  Public school art
teachers must
		be able to teach all media that are available to their
programs, and 
	
		mandated by the state art syllabus.

To apply: contact the Dept. of Graduate Studies at SUNY Oswego, and
request that 
an 
application packet be mailed to you.  The application will be reviewed by
the 
Art 
Education Faculty of the Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction in conjunction
with 
the 
Fine Art Faculty.