Creativity lives here! Located in beautiful Denver, Colorado, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design is an innovative, rigorous and community-oriented global learning environment that inspires passion for critical thinking, preparing learners to be forces of change in their industries, communities and the world.
As a Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design student, you can rely on us to educate, guide, and encourage you on your artistic journey. Since 1963, we’ve been prepping students on campus and online for exhilarating careers in a variety of fields.
As an art education student, you’ll choose a creative discipline in addition to your education courses to ensure that you’re well-versed as both a teacher and an artist. Students will choose an emphasis in fine arts, graphic design, animation, or illustration. Through RMCAD’s unique curriculum, you’ll develop your technical skills and personal vision, while learning classroom methodologies and teaching techniques.
Students in the Art Education program have a chance to get into the classroom before they begin student teaching through more than 600 field experience hours. RMCAD’s Art Education program is approved by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE). Graduates are prepared to apply for a K-12 Colorado teaching license and enter the classroom as confident and creative leaders.
Students at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design have reduced the cost of their program using these methods. Check with Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design to see if you can, too!
Amount
Description
$21,483
Tuition for Blended Learning
For the 2020-2021 school year, RMCAD has a blended learning option that allows students to complete their classroom hours remotely. Blended learning combines traditional place-based classroom methods with online educational materials and opportunities for interaction.
Tuition for the blended learning option is $21,483.
$400
Blended Learning Tuition Discount
All Blended+ students will continue to receive a $400 per semester discount on tuition for the Fall A semester.
$16,864
Tuition for Online Learning
The tuition for an online degree program is $16,864.
All students focus on foundational courses in art and design along with liberal arts courses that are customized to the needs of a practicing artist.
You'll begin taking courses in ceramics, sculpture, painting, etc. to ensure a broad understanding of artistic materials and approaches within art education. You will begin initial field experiences in K-12 classrooms with their first art education courses. A sophomore portfolio review provides the opportunity for mentorship with a panel of experienced art educators, focusing both on the student as an artist and as an educator.
You'll focus on one of four emphases within art education: animation (online or in person), graphic design (online or in person), illustration (online or on-ground), or fine arts (in person students only). You will also work in art education courses, including embedded field experiences in schools. The junior portfolio review provides the opportunity for additional mentorship focused on the needs of an art educator.
The first semester of the senior year is focused on in-depth methods in art education courses, including 60 hours of field experience in your student teaching placement classrooms. The second semester is spent primarily in student teaching with hands-on support from a mentor teacher as well as a supervising professor. Candidates prepare a portfolio and teacher work sample that can be used immediately in interviews for teaching positions.
Program Hallmarks
You will complete over 800 hours in field experience placements. Those placements focus on time in K-12 classrooms as well as arts education community organizations. Field experience hours are integrated into Art Education courses and assignments focus on connecting the content of the course with reflections on the field experience placement. For instance, in Philosophy of Art and Education, field experience hours include interviews with practicing classroom teachers that inform the development of a philosophy of education. In Equity in Learning, field experience hours focus on hours in diverse classrooms with reflections focused on how to support students of all backgrounds.
Students complete over 800 hours in field experience placements. Those placements focus on time in K-12 classrooms as well as arts education community organizations. Field experience hours are integrated into Art Education courses and assignments focus on connecting the content of the course with reflections on the field experience placement. For instance, in Philosophy of Art and Education, field experience hours include interviews with practicing classroom teachers that inform the development of a philosophy of education. In Equity in Learning, field experience hours focus on hours in diverse classrooms with reflections focused on how to support students of all backgrounds.
Portfolio reviews focus on mentorship throughout the program with experienced art educators.
Small class sizes lead to a deep sense of community within the program and the campus.
Stats
Gender
Male
Female
17%
83%
Ethnicity
American Indian or Alaskan Native
Asian
Black
Hispanic/Latino
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander
White
Two or more races
7%
0%
4%
7%
0%
74%
7%
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