ADE-200 From Studio to Classroom I (3 Credits)
This course draws on each student's studio core and considers ways that the artist-teachers can adapt studio competencies to an educational setting. Through fieldwork observations and research, students will identify the concepts, skills, techniques, materials, and language specific to each studio core. Students then begin to adapt, translate, and make studio learning accessible for the diverse abilities and interests of individual learners and groups of learners. This course requires 15 hours of fieldwork in a K-12 setting. The class will take several all-day field trips on the day of the scheduled class meeting. Therefore, students must leave this day free for those trips.
ADE-201 Youth in the City (3 Credits)
New York City's neighborhoods and institutions serve as a lens through which to examine how educators, social activists, artists, and policy makers frame, debate, and negotiate racial, economic, and social inequalities among the city's youth. The course challenges the deficit model approach to addressing inequality and in doing so questions assumptions about purposes of education within the context of an ongoing struggle for democratic rights and opportunities. Through an institutional study of a school and its neighborhood, students explore youth, family, and community assets. Leadership and agency. Students analyze and synthesize evidence, take into account different viewpoints and perspectives, and apply their findings to professional practice. This course includes 20 hours of fieldwork in K-12 settings.
