Arts in Education

Curriculum

Examples of Past Student Coursework: Drama

In fulfilling the requirements of the AIE program, students are expected to structure their programs to suit their individual needs and interests, with guidance and support from the Arts in Education office. Summaries of prior students' coursework, outlining their various individualized versions of the AIE program, are available in the “Student Pathways 2005-06” and “Student Pathways 2006-07” lists on this “curriculum” part of the AIE web site.

Please Note: The following are examples of programs as students have designed or might design them. They are NOT prescribed courses of action. Some courses mentioned may no longer be available. Please check the online HGSE course catalog for current offerings.

Below are examples of interdisciplinary student "paths," or courses of study, designed by past AIE students who have special expertise and/or interest in the artistic domain of drama.

Student : RR’07

Arts-Related Courses:

S-300 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S-301 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

H810F Children's Literature (Robinson)

T203 Creating Community in the Classroom (Kattef)

S310C Object-Based Teaching and Learning (Dell)

T210T Role-Play as a Teaching Strategy: From Head Start Curricula to Legal Professional Development (Mages)

A710D Principles and Policy Issues of College Admissions (Coffin): The only AIE student permitted to take this course, I focused on the admissions process from a fine art student’s perspective, asking what needs to change in the admissions process for more students of artistic talent to be admitted. For my final project, I restructured Notre Dame’s admissions process to let more artistic students in, since they have a new performing arts center.

T324 Gender and Education (Luttrell): For our final project, an AIE classmate and I created an ethnodrama from interviews we’d conducted earlier in the semester. I also helped with artistic activities through the course, including role-play activities and Forum Theatre.

T131 Teachers, Leadership, and Power: Changing the Teaching Career (Boles): All of my papers were written with an Arts in Ed point of view, including a case study I wrote based on a theater teacher at Boston Arts Academy and a final paper in which I created a 10-year plan for accomplishing school change as a fine arts director.

A710D Principles and Policy Issues of College Admissions (Coffin)

Elective:

H236 Adolescent Development: Psychosocial Implications for School Practice and Community Partnerships (Casey)

Student: JS’07

Arts-Related Courses:

S-300 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S-301 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S305 Research on Learning in Museums: Issues and Approaches (Tishman)

T540 Cognition and the Art of Instruction (Perkins)

A027B Managing Financial Resources in Nonprofit Organizations ( Honan)

T210T Role-Play as a Teaching Strategy: From Head Start Curricula to Legal Professional Development (Mages)

A122 The Why, What, and How of School, Family, and Community Partnerships (Mapp): For my mid-term, I designed a family-involvement plan for an arts-focused after-school center. For my final, I did a case study of a partnerships between VSA (Very Special Arts) and the O’Hearn School.

Electives:

H210D Supporting Learning and Development after School: Research, Policy, and Practice (Little and Weiss)

H236 Adolescent Development: Psychosocial Implications for School Practice and Community Partnerships (Casey)

Student: MB’06

Arts-Related Courses:

S-300 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S-301 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S-305 Research on Learning in Museums: Issues and Approaches (Tishman)

S-997 Field Experience Program: “Research assistant at Project Zero on the Qualities of

Quality project funded by the Wallace Foundation.”

A-100 Introduction to Educational Policy (Reville) “Policy Memo: outlined strategies for

improving arts education in Oklahoma schools k-12. Final Paper: strategies for creating

arts-integrated schools in Cook County by restructuring underperforming schools.”

Electives:

S-011 Understanding Today’s Educational Testing (Koretz)

H-207 Complementary Learning (Weiss, Little, and Kreider)

T-560 Universal Design for Learning (Rose)

Student: MR’06

Arts-Related Courses:

S-300 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S-301 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

DA-14 The Art of Movement Design (Bergmann)

S-310C Object-Based Teaching and Learning (Dell)

H-502 Youth Cultures: Building Difference, Breaking it Down (Pollock)

T-210F Exploring Group Learning and Performance (Wilson)

T-540 Cognition and the Art and Science of Instruction (Grotzer)

“Created curriculum for semester-long theater class called “theater as understanding,”

that employs critique, performance, and other artistic processes. The curriculum

incorporated and was based on concepts from T-540.”

Electives:

H-600 Constructing Gender (Haste)

A-101 Native Americans in the 21 st Century: Nation Building (Kalt)

AH-400 American Dilemmas: Everyday Struggles over Race and Equality in U.S.

Education (Pollock)