Arts in Education

Curriculum

Examples of Past Student Coursework: General Interest

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 arts (general interest).

Student: EB’07

Arts-Related Courses :

S-300 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S-301 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S121 Art and Understanding ( Elgin)

S310C Object-Based Teaching and Learning (Dell)

T324 Gender and Education (Luttrell): An AIE classmate and I did an ethnodrama on the definition of success in schools hetero-normative behavior.

KSG-0254 PAL-210 The U.S. Congress and Law Making (King): I enacted a congressional simulation, participating in the passage of a bill abolishing traditional high school and creating experientially based ed opps for all adolescents in the U.S.

Electives:

A021 Leadership in School Organizations (Mapp)

A109 Education Policy and Urban Poverty (Orfield)

LAW-0041 46261A. Self, Serenity, and Vulnerability: East and West (Unger and Puett)

Student: JM’06

Arts-Related Courses:

S-300 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S-301 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

HT-123 Informal Learning for Children (Blatt)

HT-500 Growing up in a Media World (Blatt)

H-810F Children’s Literature (Robinson)

S-301B Interdisciplinary Education: Music and the Arts as Medium and Model (Scripp)

S-999 Independent Study: Designing at integrative arts/math curriculum and doing a literature review on the existing research on curriculum integration.

Electives:

H-250 Psychology of Early Childhood (Harris)

History A-75 The Two Koreas

Student: LP’06

Arts-Related Courses:

S-300 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S-301 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

T-440 Teaching and Learning: Critical Exploration in the Classroom (Duckworth)

T-241 Free Speech in the English Classroom (Chadwick)

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

T-730 Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison (Chadwick)

English-397 Directed Study: Historical Fiction as Pedagogy (Sollors)

Law-0030 Entertainment, Media, and the Law (Harper)

Law-0024 Law and Literature Seminar (Stone)

Electives:

S-620 Graduate Writing

Law-0025 Independent Study: I conducted a case study of the recording industry’s treatment of musicians.

Student: TH’06

Arts-Related Courses:

S-300 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S-301 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

AH-400 American Dilemmas: Everyday Struggles over Race and Equality in US

Education (Pollock)

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

VES-90C The History of Now: Seminar (Lambert-Beatty)

T-103 Understanding Curriculum (Gaztambide-Fernandez)

S-997 Field Experience Program: I spend the semester conducting research and developing content for media technology to be included in the new building of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.

Elective:

NPS-201 Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations (Stone)

Student: RB’06

Arts-Related Courses:

S-300 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

S-301 The Arts in Education (Seidel)

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

HT-100 Cognitive Development and the Brain (Gardner and Fisher): Focused on cognition and development of artistic thinking through a semester-long project design, “The Learner’s Sketchbook,” applying current research on children’s drawing and cognition as well as broad developmental frameworks to a research project.

Electives:

A&S 4810 Modern Hebrew (Kubovy)

S0771 Epistemology: Beyond Literal Truth ( Elgin)