An intensive program with tracks in Art Education and Art History. Students engage in intensive research and work closely with faculty mentors. They procure jobs at universities and museums and routinely secure tenure track and curatorial positions.
Mira Kallio Tavin, Winnie Chandler Distinguished Professor of Art mira.kalliotavin@uga.edu
Art History Area Chair https://art.uga.edu/directory/art-history
36 hours
37 hours
At least 18 hours of 8000-level and 9000-level courses, not including research (9000), dissertation writing (9300), and directed study/independent study courses.
| ARED 8410 | History of Art Education | 3 |
| ARED 8460 | Theoretical Perspectives in Art Education | 3 |
| ARED 8990 | Research Seminar in Art Education | 1-6 |
| QUAL 8400 | Qualitative Research Traditions | 3 |
| QUAL 8410 | Designing Qualitative Research | 3 |
Choose 1 course(s) from the following:
| ARED 7370 | Curriculum Theory and Practice in Art Education | 3 |
| ARED 8370 | Curriculum Theory in Art Education | 3 |
Choose 1 course(s) from the following:
| LLED 8590 | Arts-Based Inquiry in Diverse Learning Communities | 3 |
| QUAL 8420 | Analyzing Qualitative Data | 3 |
| QUAL 8590 | Arts-Based Inquiry in Diverse Learning Communities | 3 |
Choose 1 to 9 credit hours from the following:
| ARTS 9010 | Directed Study in Art History | 1-9 |
At least 9 hours of graduate-level elective coursework including but not limited to the courses below. Other courses may be taken to fulfill this requirement with departmental approval.
| ARED 4350S/6350S | Elementary Curriculum in Art Education – Writing Intensive | 3 |
| ARED 4360S/6360S | Secondary Curriculum in Art Education – Writing Intensive | 3 |
| ARED 7390 | Supervision of Art | 3 |
| ARED 8430 | Topics in Art Education | 3 |
| ARED 8440 | Directed Study in Art Education | 3 |
| CMLT(AFST)(LACS) 4545/6545 | Comparative Postcolonial Studies | 3 |
| EDEL 7010 | Trends and Issues in Elementary Education | 3 |
| EDEL 7020 | Theory and Curriculum in Elementary Education | 3 |
| EDEL(EDEC) 8260 | Post-Structural Theory and Early Childhood and Elementary Education | 3 |
| EDEL(WMST) 8400 | Feminist Perspectives in Elementary Education | 3 |
| EDUC 7040 | History of Education in the United States | 3 |
| EDUC 7120 | Sociological Theories of Education | 3 |
| EPSY 4011/6011 * | Foundations of Human Development for Education | 3 |
| EPSY 6010 * | Foundations of Human Development for Education | 3 |
| EPSY 7060 | Assessment of Gifted Children and Youth | 3 |
| EPSY 7110 | Characteristics of Gifted Children and Youth | 3 |
| EPSY 7240 | Creativity: Instructional Procedures and Problem Solving Processes | 3 |
| EPSY 8160 | Special Topics in Educational Psychology | 3 |
| EPSY 8220 | Theories of Creativity | 3 |
| ETAP 7045 | Special Topics in Education Theory and Practice | 3 |
| ETAP(QUAL)(ERSH) 7500 | Action Research | 3 |
| ETAP 8560 | New Materialism and New Empiricism in Educational Theory and Practice | 3 |
| ETAP 8585 | Foucault and Education | 3 |
| ETAP 8595 | Derrida, Deconstruction, and Education | 3 |
| ETAP 8700 | Psychoanalysis and Education | 3 |
| HDFS(PSYC) 8920 | Behavior Problems in Children | 3 |
| JRMC(WMST) 8070 | Media Culture and Diversity | 3 |
| LLED 5312/7312 | Poetry, Grades P-8 | 3 |
| LLED 6310 | Survey of Diverse Literature in Schools and Society | 3 |
| LLED 8045 | Special Topics in Language and Literacy Education | 3 |
| LLED 8200 | Critical Pedagogies | 3 |
| LLED 8590 | Arts-Based Inquiry in Diverse Learning Communities | 3 |
| LLOD(WMST) 8180 | Feminist Pedagogy | 3 |
| PSYC 6210 | Individual Differences | 3 |
| QUAL 8590 | Arts-Based Inquiry in Diverse Learning Communities | 3 |
| SOCI(AFAM) 8370 | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | 3 |
| WMST(AFAM) 4060/6060 | Black Feminism | 3 |
| WMST 4070/6070 | North American Asian Feminisms | 3 |
| WMST 4100/6100 | Queer Theories | 3 |
| WMST 4170S/6170S | Environment, Gender, Race, and Class | 3 |
| WMST 8030 | Transnational Gender Studies | 3 |
| WMST 8100 | LGBTQ Studies | 3 |
*only one of these courses may be taken to fulfill this requirement
30 hours of graduate-level Art History courses, 18 of which must be seminar (8000-level) courses. Directed and independent study courses may not count toward the 18 hour-requirement but may count towards the 30 hours of graduate-level Art History courses.
Other courses may be taken to fulfill this requirement with department approval.
| GRSC 7001 | GradFIRST: First-year Research and Scholarship Training Seminar | 1 |
Choose 3 credit hour(s) from the following:
| ARED 9000 | Doctoral Research | 1-9 |
| ARTS 9000 | Doctoral Research | 1-12 |
Choose 3 credit hour(s) from the following:
| ARED 9300 | Doctoral Dissertation | 1-9 |
| ARTS 9300 | Doctoral Dissertation | 1-12 |
| ARTS 9005 * | Doctoral Graduate Student Seminar | 3-9 |
| GRSC 7770 ** | Graduate Teaching Seminar | 1-3 |
*Must be taken every semester on assistantship. **Unless eligible for a waiver.
Select additional courses, as needed, in consultation with an advisor to meet the minimum number of required credit hours for this program.