Arts in Education: Curriculum

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Arts and education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Since the establishment of the arts and education program in the 1990s, the freedom to choose courses in a wide variety of topics has been a major attraction of the program to self directed learners.

As an AI student you will be required to complete at least 8 courses for 32. Academic credits or the equivalent in a combination of full four credit courses and two credit half semester courses.

Or J term courses, which can be too or for themselves, I think.

In a weekly Friday morning meeting of the Core AI Ecorse S 300.

You will meet with fellow members of your cohort for 3, 1/2 hours of exploration in arts and learning topics.

Featuring class discussions guest presentations small group workshop times and demonstrations of Arts education exercises.

The core course provides a common meeting place in which to synthesize your adventures and other courses and arts education field settings.

In addition to the arts education work. You'll do and the onecore IE course you will be required to do arts related projects in at least 4 other courses.

You could do that arts related work and explicitly arts focused courses such as S 301 talk by Steve Seidel in the spring.

In Catherine Elgin Zartan understanding course.

In Maggie Cavallo's arts and learning in public spaces course or and Shari Tishman's close looking and active learning and museums course for example.

But you could also do art related working courses on Human Development Community School partnerships. Inclusive education for special learners management and leadership of non profit organizations or international education for example.

You will also enjoy the privilege of taking courses at other Harvard schools such as the Kennedy School of government. The Graduate School of Design in the faculty of Arts and Sciences.

You might take a composition course at the music Department, a documentary filmmaking course at the visual and Environmental Studies Program, or a hip hop dance class. At the Harvard Dance Center or courses in art in the LA community organizing or the work of WEB Debois.

You will be required to take at least 4 recourses at HGC, but you could spend half of your course time at other Harvard schools.

You may also cross register for courses at MIT that on the street.

If you have explored the EA website. You might have come across links in the curriculum section to a list of student pathways documents.

You are encouraged to click one or two of those student pathways documents.

Open to read testimonies from EA students to the work, they did in their courses and the extracurricular projects. They engaged in in their spare time.