International Year One (1-Semester Pathway) Transfer to Bachelor of Arts - Education - Art - Elementary

The International Year program will provide you with the solid foundation you need to be successful in your university degree. Offered as a one, two, or three quarter program, you will study a range of subjects to develop your language and study skills, while focusing on your chosen field. After successfully completing your International Year, you will be able to progress to your undergraduate degree at Western.

The broad instructional concept of Art Education is to integrate the components of art history, art criticism, and studio art courses, university courses, and Western's Gallery Exhibition Program and permanent collection. Students learn to interpret, analyze and make intelligent judgments about art, and the skills and concepts of the studio. A grasp of the dynamic nature of a culture and the continuing extension of its visual language is a fundamental objective.  

Western's Elementary Art program prepares students to teach at the elementary grade level. The program introduces curricular design in the arts and the four components of Discipline Based Art Education — criticism, history, aesthetics, and art studio. Art education prepares students to become either elementary classroom teachers or art specialist. Elementary classroom teachers must specialize in one area in addition to the elementary education courses.  

This major satisfies the academic major requirement for teacher certification with an endorsement in Elementary Education and must be accompanied by the professional program in elementary education.