Art Education
Admissions

Undergraduate

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Students who wish to major in art education must apply and be accepted to the Art Education Program. Admission requirements include: Acceptance to SUNY New Paltz and to the Art Department. Art education students enter as pre-majors and, while enrolled in Introduction to Visual Arts Education, apply to be become majors.

Most students apply to the Art Education Program while enrolled in the required introductory course, Introduction to Visual Arts Education, usually taken in the first semester of the junior year. Freshmen, sophomores, and transfer students who plan to major in art education are strongly advised to become pre-majors in art education as soon as they arrive on campus so that they are assigned an art education advisor who will help them plan their courses each semester. Students who do not gain acceptance to the Art Education Program are not eligible to register for the remaining sequential art education courses that are required for majors.

The Art Education Program does not offer an alternate route certification program. Students seeking the New York State Initial Teaching Certificate for Art Pre-K - 12 may opt to enroll as second degree students in the B.S. in Art Education degree program. This requires application to the college, Art Department, and Art Education Program. Second degree students must apply and be accepted to the Art Education Program (as well as to the college and Art Department) prior to enrolling in ARE190 Introduction to Visual Arts Education.

 

For further information:

Graduate

Applications to the MSEd in Visual Arts program are accepted on a rolling deadline until May 15, but applicants who apply before March 15 will be given priority. Please note that the application requires payment of a non-refundable $50 application fee. For online applications payment can be made by credit card (Visa or Mastercard). For paper applications, payment can be made by credit card (Visa or Mastercard), a U.S. Postal Money Order, or a check made payable to SUNY New Paltz.

The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is not required for admission.

 

Required Graduate Application Procedure:

1. Submit your application through the Graduate School and pay application fee.

 

Online Graduate Application

Print the receipt from the final page verifying receipt of your application and admissions payment after you have completed your online portfolio application.

 

2. You will need to compile and send the following materials via U.S. mail directly to:

 

The Graduate School

State University of New York at New Paltz

1 Hawk Drive

New Paltz, NY  12561-2443

 

  • Portfolio. Your portfolio should be submitted on DVD or CD and consist of 15 examples of your best studio work in any media. This portion of the application does not include your students’ work, and does not need to address your breadth of ability with media. Rather, the images should represent your best work conceptually and technically. Images should be labeled with the following information: title of work, medium, size, and date. You may include video as part of your portfolio. Please submit video in .mp4 or .mov format. For good image quality we recommend jpeg images no larger than 1280x1280 at 72 dpi.

  • Artist’s statement. Please submit a one-page artist’s statement that discusses your concepts, research, methods and influences.

  • Contextualized student work. Please submit a one-page narrative of a lesson you have carried out with students describing the conceptual focus of the lesson, the learning objectives, ways you implemented the lesson (teaching strategies), your evaluation methods, and your reflections on the strengths of the lesson. Please include several (three to five) examples of student work developed as part of this lesson showing a range of student responses.

  • Teaching philosophy. Please address the following: your aspirations and goals as an art teacher for yourself and your students; what you believe is important for student learning; teaching methods you use to address student learning and achieve your goals; ways you assess student learning; ways you reflect on your teaching to help you grow as a professional. (one to two pages)

  • Copies of all undergraduate transcripts.

  • Copy of current teaching certificate.

  • Three letters of recommendation from instructors, administrators, or other individuals who can evaluate your potential for graduate study.

  • Resume/CV.

  • A copy of your receipt verifying your application and admissions statement.

 

For further information:

  • The Art Education Program: call 845-257-3850

  • The Graduate School: 845-257-3285 or toll-free 800-248-8856