The WKU Art Education program consists of three semesters of professional component: The Admissions Semester (ART 311: Foundations of Art Education and Methods I), Professional Semester I (ART 411 Foundations of Art Education and Methods II), and Professional Semester II (ART 413: Foundations of Art Education and Methods III).
The art education course sequence is structured to provide a beginning, intermediate, and advanced mastery of art education content and pedagogy through different levels of field based learning to demonstrate proficiency as articulated in NAEA Standards for Art Teacher Preparation, The National Standards for Arts Education, and Ten Kentucky Teacher Standards.