CIEE 5180 Art and Creativity: Methods and Assessment in K-5

Explore the visual arts, movement, sound, and theater. Discover how the arts and other expressive media contribute to creative forces and critical thinking in elementary school students. Through the use of different art forms and materials, future teachers learn that they can become more creative, interesting, and thought provoking classroom teachers. They learn how to integrate the arts and use them as tools or mediums for teaching other core subjects in the curriculum. Students are provided with an understanding of the creative and aesthetic potential in children. They are given opportunities to experiment with appropriate media, and consider programmatic and curricular possibilities for implementation in a school setting. Prerequisite(s): CMAT 511 or CIEE 511
Credits: 2.0