Choose From Over 30 Graduate Courses

Shape your art room to support all learners through inclusive strategies, educational accommodations, and modified curriculum and assessment.

Investigate practical approaches to enact change and amplify your voice in your community and beyond while creating a toolkit for visual arts advocacy.

Examine the history, laws, and perspectives surrounding special education to increase learning and engage diverse learners in the art room.

Embrace the energy and curiosity of young students by balancing productive play and structure to nurture the artmaking and creative thinking skills of preschool through 2nd-grade learners.

Explore leadership and advocacy pathways to increase arts integration and achievement opportunities within and beyond the art room.

Discover the difference between the assessment of learning and the assessment for learning while creating culturally responsive assessments and applying data to advocate for all students.

Channel your renewed back-to-school energy as you learn to set measurable goals for increased student engagement and success in the art room this year.

Write a series of essays synthesizing resource information, artifacts, and professional practice.

Write a series of essays synthesizing resource information, artifacts, and professional practice.

Culminate your master’s degree experience in this 12-week course by engaging in action research, writing a professional paper, and formally presenting your work in a virtual event to faculty, peers, and AOEU leadership.

Conclude your master’s degree with a capstone project including data collection and analysis, a discussion that applies action research to professional practice, a professional paper, and a formal presentation of your work in a virtual event to faculty, peers, and AOEU leadership.

Place students at the center of their educational experience as you explore choice-based approaches in the art classroom.

Engage diverse learners in the art room by examining unwanted behaviors, while learning how to teach, model, and encourage desired behaviors.

Investigate how our brains and behaviors are shaped by our experiences and apply research-based methods to create inclusive spaces for young artists.

Create personalized, engaging curriculum maps and assessments to effectively reach all learners and create impactful learning experiences.

Evaluate the various ways adult learners engage in professional learning to develop a meaningful professional development plan that empowers colleagues and fuels growth.

Discover current trends in art education, analyze curriculum examples, and engage the principles of action research to develop a culturally responsive and inclusive curriculum for your art classroom.

Develop 21st-century design skills and explore digital illustration media as you capture themes from your favorite pieces of literature throughout this three-week introductory course.

Examine artists, analyze historical themes, and make cultural observations to build a repertoire of personalized strategies and heighten the relevance of art history in the classroom.

Grow confidence in your understanding of the visual arts through this foundational course.

Forge a foundational understanding of educational pedagogy, inclusive methods, curriculum design, and teaching strategies.

Investigate the role of the art educator to enact change and inspire others in the community through equitable and ethical practices.

Explore an area of interest and devleop methodology within the scope of an action research project that will improve professional practice.

Investigate program management strategies, curriculum design, and advocacy skills to build a solid foundation for art education.

Connect creative thinking to real-world experiences and 21st-century skills through innovative educational approaches and instructional strategies.

Align your teaching with 21st-century learning goals by examining contemporary trends in art education to develop instructional strategies and increase student engagement in the artistic process.

Build inclusion and increase engagement for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the art room.

Learn best practices for time-saving curriculum design using lessons of your choice.

Evaluate best practices and current trends in classroom management to develop an inclusive and respectful classroom management plan for immediate use in your art room.

Examine the intersection of neuroscience and educational pedagogy to optimize your art curriculum and support all students.

Explore current art education issues in your passion area through action research to become a catalyst for change in art education.

Learn how to capitalize on grants, fundraising, and entrepreneurship in order to expand your art room impact and enhance your art program.

Gain confidence in reaching the diverse learners in your art room through proven practices, creative tools, and engaging strategies.

Reflect on the passions and needs within your practice to design paths of inquiry, plan ways to advocate for change, and develop actionable research questions.

Build a solid foundation of social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies and create tools to support SEL integration in the art room.

Increase your proficiency in various ceramics techniques with studio practice and real-world classroom scenarios while gaining strategies for immediate classroom use.

Grow in your own practice while learning from contemporary artists and peers about the best studio practices and new ways to teach drawing in the art room.

Add to your body of work with traditional and innovative fiber arts practices plus curricular development that will inspire your classroom artists.

Investigate the design thinking framework, historical context, and cultural perspectives to solve real-world problems in graphic design as you create artifacts and lessons for immediate application in the art classroom.

Focus on tempera and acrylic techniques in a studio environment as you discover best practices for immediate use in the classroom and create authentic artworks.

Explore the unique qualities of watercolor as you investigate traditional and alternative watercolor techniques, historical and contemporary watercolor artists, and strategies and tools for implementing watercolor in your classroom and personal practice.

Deepen your personal studio practice while you explore best practices and practical strategies to incorporate photography in the art classroom.

Revamp your curriculum to include printmaking history and techniques with students of all ages—without the advanced equipment.

Create with your classroom in mind in this highly exploratory 3D media course while you learn practical methods to boost student autonomy, bolster innovation, and enhance 3D artmaking skills.

Learn to integrate educational technology and inspire meaningful instruction, assessment, and art creation in a 21st-century art classroom.

Explore the connections between learning and instruction by investigating your teacher identity and art education methods.

Three weeks to reflect and build an action plan to help yourself and others create a balanced, rested, and abundant life.

Explore the transformative power of creativity through therapeutic artmaking activities and reflective practices in both the classroom and your personal artmaking practice.