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| Arts Education Assistant Certificate |
College Skills |
Total Units: 16 |
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Term Effective:
Fall 2025
Description:
The Arts Education Assistant program is designed to support students as they begin to explore careers in Visual and Performing Arts Education as well as current arts educators wishing to enhance their skills in their current positions. The program includes curriculum development that addresses the needs of diverse student populations through discipline-specific and grade-appropriate teaching strategies and curricular models that deepen student learning. Candidates will inform their instructional practices through analysis and reflection to support students’ engagement with the arts as an academic discipline. Students will gain knowledge of diverse instructional strategies, inclusive of technology, to meet the varying abilities, learning styles, and cultural assets of all students to deepen student learning within a positive learning environment.
Upon successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively support instruction in an arts classroom. Implement curriculum that addresses the needs of diverse student populations through grade-appropriate teaching strategies and curricular models that deepen student learning; meet varying abilities and learning styles; and actively engage learners.
- Implement diverse instructional strategies, inclusive of technology, to meet the varying abilities, learning styles, and cultural assets of all students to deepen student learning within a positive learning environment.
- Inform their instructional practices through analysis and reflection to support students’ engagement with the arts.
Program Requirements:
The requirements for the Arts Education Assistant Certificate program are:
| Arts Education Assistant - complete 16.00 units |
| EDU 65 | Secondary Curriculum Development for Diverse Classrooms | 4.00 |
| EDU 67 | Educational Technology for Classroom Teachers | 4.00 |
Complete any combination totaling at least 8.00 units from the following:
| | Course | Description | Units |
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| Complete at least 8 units from within one of the discipline options below: |
| Art |
| ART 3 | Introduction to Art and Design | 3.00 |
| Select ART 7A or ART 82 |
| ART 7A | Drawing and Composition 1 | 3.00 |
| ART 82 | Beginning Digital Photography | 3.00 |
| Select ART 4 or ART 5 |
| ART 4 | Principles of Color | 3.00 |
| ART 5 | Three Dimensional Design | 3.00 |
| Music |
| MUSC 2A | Music Theory 1 | 3.00 |
| MUSC 3A | Musicianship 1 | 1.00 |
| MUSP 11A | Class Piano 1 | 2.00 |
| MUSP 11B | Class Piano 2 | 2.00 |
| Technical Theatre |
| THAR 20 | Introduction to Stagecraft | 3.00 |
| THAR 21A | Introduction to Costume Technology | 3.00 |
| THAR 22 | Makeup Design for Stage and Screen | 2.00 |
| Dance |
| DANC 2 | Survey of Dance History | 3.00 |
| DANC 3.1 | Choreography I | 1.50 |
| DANC 11.3 | Ballet III | 1.50 |
| DANC 13.3 | Jazz Dance III | 1.50 |
| DANC 14.3 | Contemporary Dance III | 1.50 |
| DANC 16.3 | Modern Dance III | 1.50 |
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Term Effective:
Fall 2025
The requirements for this program of study are effective beginning the semester shown above. If you began working on this program before the effective semester, you may not be affected by the changes. Consult with the program contact person or the department chair to determine your eligibility to complete the program under previous requirements.
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Course Prerequisites and Advisories:
Courses in a program of study may have prerequisites or advisories;
that is, courses that must or should be completed before taking that course.
Please check for prerequisites or advisories by clicking on the course numbers
in the Program Requirements section.
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