Art Education, BS

Art education is a perfect choice for people who love making art, viewing and engaging in lively discussions about art, and working in creative environments. Teaching art provides not only a meaningful career, but a unique opportunity to help other people lead interesting, fulfilled, and creative lives.UW–Madison's art education program provides essential preparation for a variety of careers in art education. Students work directly with children and adolescents in both school and community-based field placements in every semester of the program. They study with world-renowned art and education faculty in a range of rigorous and engaging studio, art history, curriculum and instruction, educational psychology, and educational policy studies courses, while also connecting with Madison’s vibrant arts community through field trips and service learning.Our students experience all the advantages of a Big Ten university, while receiving personalized attention within the major, especially in the Art Foundations Program. This series of interrelated studio and lecture courses is taken by art and art education majors during their first year on campus as preparation for further study in studio art and design.Graduates of our program earn a bachelor of science degree, a career-ready Wisconsin teaching license in K–12 art education, and gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to teach the visual arts in public and private schools, at the elementary and secondary levels, in the United States and internationally, and in community settings such as art museums, maker spaces, and senior centers.