ART 3811 Teaching Art to Special Populations
This course provides an examination of approaches to teaching art to special populations. It is designed to help the specialist with educational and therapeutic issues as they relate to teaching and making art. Coursework includes hands on projects, as well as the study of behavior, linguistic needs, and different modes of interdisciplinary and intercultural learning in an arts practices. Students will develop projects and practice teaching each other, and they will consider teaching through the introduction of concepts, which are open to interpretation and expression unique to the individual involved in these settings.