Students pursuing a degree in art education receive broad exposure to studio art and art history. An art education degree prepares you to teach art to students ranging from preschool to high school. Legal requirements to become a teacher are established by each state, but all states require art teachers to have at least a bachelor's degree.
Learn more about the professional skills you will build in each of our art education degree programs and how you can use your degree as the foundation for a successful future.
Graduates with a major in art education are attractive to employers due to their abilities in the following areas:
- Teaching
- Curriculum planning
- Imagining creative solutions
- Visual literacy
- Self-discipline
- Time management
- Collaboration/teamwork
- Critical thinking/analytical reasoning
- Decision making and ethical judgment
- Quantitative/applied technology
- Working well with subjective and abstract concepts
- Collaboration
- Possess a diversity of knowledge across many topics
- Cultural awareness and appreciation
- K-12 Art Teacher
- Art Educator
- Museum Educator
- Community Art Educator
- Art Administrator
- Gallery Director
- Artist
- Education
- Museums
- Nonprofits
- Arts and Entertainment
- Health Care
- University of South Carolina
- Lexington County School District One
- Walt Disney World
- The Phoenix Theatre Company
- Richland School District Two
- Trustus Theatre
Learn how alumni use degrees with outcome data from Gamecock GradStats, a service of the University of South Carolina Career Center.
