EDAR100 to EDAR504

EDAR100 Creative Arts Education: Visual Arts                                                                                      10 cp

This unit is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the role of the visual arts in both an educative and societal context. It provides an introduction to the various theoretical models and strategies that underpin the role and function of the visual arts in teaching and learning. The unit also aims to increase students’ knowledge, skills and appreciation of the role of the artist as maker, presenter and critic, through the provision of practical experiences and opportunities for personal expression. This unit enables students to establish links between theoretical components and classroom practices in school settings.

EDAR101 Integrated Creative Arts Education 1                                                                                    10 cp

The creative arts have their own languages, techniques and conventions through which to communicate meanings, ideas and feelings. This unit examines the ways in which the creative arts use codes and symbolic structures as a means of communication and it involves students in experiences in reading and using these codes. This unit also establishes a platform for considering topical and significant arts issues in creative arts education.

EDAR102 Integrated Creative Arts Education 2                                                                                    10 cp

An understanding of the nature of the creative arts, the creative process and children’s artistic development is essential if a balanced curriculum is to be achieved. The creative arts are a basic part of the child's environment. Therefore, a child's ability to understand, interpret, criticise and express themselves in art forms is fundamental. Teachers need personal experience in the skills and processes that go into the making, experiencing and interpreting of the arts.

EDAR302/416 Visual Arts Curriculum and Teaching 1                                                                          10 cp

This unit is designed to create and extend a knowledge base for visual arts education that will develop competence and ability in the planning of experiences in visual arts for middle school students within the context of relevant state curriculum documents. The unit is also designed to develop students’ understanding of visual arts education within a discipline-based tradition of aesthetics, art criticism, art history, and art production. Identification of appropriate content is investigated in order to facilitate middle school students’ achievement of standards. Emphasis is given to the contribution of visual arts education to whole language curriculum and also the way in which visual arts facilitates thinking through the processes of conceptualisation, inquiry and reflection.

EDAR303/417 Visual Arts Curriculum and Teaching 2                                                                          10 cp

This unit is designed to create and extend a knowledge base for visual arts education that will develop competence and ability in the planning of experiences in visual art for senior secondary school students within the context of the relevant state curriculum documents. Emphasis is placed on visual arts education as an interdisciplinary way of knowing as well as a discipline-based domain. Students are introduced to the processes of assessment, reporting and curriculum evaluation in the senior art classroom. Contemporary issues affecting visual arts education are also addressed in the unit.

EDAR305 Creative Arts Education: Visual Arts and Music                                                                      10 cp

Arts’ learning is an essential part of a well rounded education. This core unit complements learning aspects that are developed in Learning Theory and Teaching and Classroom Management and in the other key learning areas. The unit examines assumptions held about the nature and value of the arts in education of the child and encourages an understanding of their significance in a personal, social and cultural context. The unit is designed to facilitate the student’s understanding of the ways in which children perceive, respond to and create in the arts. It provides an introduction to the various theoretical models and strategies that underpin he role and function of the arts in teaching and learning.

EDAR306 Creative Arts Education A                                                                                                       5 cp

EDAR307 Creative Arts Education B                                                                                                       5 cp

Arts’ learning is an essential part of a well rounded education. This core unit complements learning aspects that are developed in Learning Theory and Teaching and Classroom Management and in the other key learning areas.

The unit examines assumptions held about the nature and value of the arts in education of the child and encourages an understanding of their significance in a personal, social and cultural context.

The unit is designed to facilitate the student’s understanding of the ways in which children perceive, respond to and create in the arts. It provides an introduction to the various theoretical models and strategies that underpin the role and function of the arts in teaching and learning.

EDAR308 Creative Arts Education 1                                                                                                       10 cp

This unit is designed to provide students with an introduction to the field of the Creative Arts in education. Introductory experiences in the areas of Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Drama and Media education (where applicable) develop students’ foundational knowledge and understandings of the distinctive nature of subject disciplines. Students will develop a critical appreciation of the unique contributions the arts make to society and how these contributions can be engaged with and interpreted in the primary school classroom. Pedagogical principles, theoretical components and practice within Music and/or Visual Arts and/or Drama and/or Dance and/or Media are examined and applied in the design and implementation of classroom practices in school settings. This unit provides foundational understandings and experiences that will inform students’ choices in areas of specialisation in EDAR422 Creative Arts Education 2.

EDAR401 Criticism, Aesthetics and Context in Art Education                                                               10 cp

This unit focuses on the nature of aesthetic experience. Students are introduced to different perspectives of aesthetics: historical, philosophical, social and cultural. The unit examines the place of aesthetic education within the art curriculum.

EDAR405 Teacher as Art Maker                                                                                                            10 cp

This unit provides students with the opportunity to extend their skills, knowledge and appreciation of art by immersing them in art experiences. A practical course that challenges students to personally express themselves and increase their appreciation of the role of the artist, this unit is designed to offer a range of experiences in art making. Students will become confident and proficient in their chosen area of visual arts both as practitioners and as teachers.

EDAR406 Aesthetics and Visual Literacy                                                                                               10 cp

This unit broadens students’ appreciation of the importance of communicating ideas, emotions and experiences through visual forms. The content of the unit will extend students’ knowledge of the elements and principles of visual expression and enable teachers to plan and integrate visual education in the classroom.

EDAR416 (see EDAR302) Visual Arts Curriculum and Teaching 1                                                         10 cp

EDAR417 (see EDAR303) Visual Arts Curriculum and Teaching 2                                                         10 cp

EDAR418 Visual Arts Curriculum and Teaching 3                                                                                 10 cp

This unit provides opportunities to study curriculum issues and teaching and learning strategies related to art practice. A variety of curriculum models, including from local, national and international contexts will be examined in terms of their representation of art practice, research and the role of the teacher. Students will critically evaluate Discipline Based Art Education (DBAE) and other approaches to program design and classroom teaching practice. Such inquiry provides a means of exploring the cultural context of visual arts practice and the contribution that public and community arts resources can make to enrich the secondary student’s experience of learning within the arts curriculum. Engagement with museums, public and community art, as well as, exploring new forms of visual research, visual analysis and image-making form part of the studies in the unit.

EDAR419 Visual Arts Curriculum and Teaching 4                                                                                 10 cp

This unit focuses on the nature of aesthetic experience. Students are introduced to different perspectives of aesthetics: historical, philosophical, social and cultural. Studies of cognition and research on knowing in art are considered in relation to recent research in conceptual development in art and frameworks of understanding in the aesthetic domain. The unit examines the place of aesthetic education in the visual arts curriculum.

EDAR420 Visual Arts Method Part A                                                                                                       5 cp

EDAR421 Visual Arts Method Part B                                                                                                       5 cp

This unit is designed to create and extend a knowledge base for visual arts education that will develop competence and ability in the planning of experiences in visual art for secondary school pupils. The unit is also designed to develop students’ understanding of current issues affecting visual art education.

EDAR422 Creative Arts Education 2                                                                                                       10 cp

In this unit, students elect to engage in an in-depth study of Music, Visual Arts, Dance, Media and/or Drama in an educative and societal context. The unit aims to increase students’ knowledge, skills and appreciation of the role of arts practitioners through the provision of practical experiences. Unit content encourages an understanding and appreciation of the practices and conventions of an area of one or more arts subject disciplines as applied to the primary classroom. This unit enables students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the relationships between pedagogical principles, theoretical components and practice within a particular arts discipline and how this informs the research, design and implementation of authentic arts practices in school settings.

EDAR504 Creative Arts Curriculum                                                                                                       10 cp

This unit is designed to provide students with an introduction to the field of the Creative Arts in education. Introductory experiences in the areas of Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Drama and Media education (where applicable) develop students' foundational knowledge and understandings of the distinctive nature of disciplines in the Creative Arts. Students will develop a critical appreciation of the unique contributions the arts make to society and how these contributions can be engaged with and interpreted in the primary school classroom. Pedagogical principles, theoretical components and practice within Music and/or Visual Arts and/or Drama and/or Dance and/or Media are examined and applied in the design and implementation of classroom practices in school settings.