Program Overview
The Arts Integration Graduate Certificate program is designed for educators and teaching artists. It provides interdisciplinary arts education across Art, Theatre, Dance, Music, Electronic Media, and Film to enhance teaching practices in Maryland's PK-12 schools. Through partnerships with the University of Maryland, College Park, UMBC, and Johns Hopkins University, the program offers flexible on-site and online delivery, including specialized experiences from partner institutions.
Program Outline
It is offered in partnership with the University of Maryland, College Park, UMBC, and Johns Hopkins University. The program works cooperatively with Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance (AEMS). The certificate program is an interdisciplinary arts-in-education approach incorporating a variety of art forms, including Art, Theatre, Dance, Music, Electronic Media and Film, as they apply to teaching across the curriculum in Maryland's schools, PK-12. The program supports Towson University's mission to provide programs that enhance the teaching skills and professional development of educators and teaching-artists.
Outline:
The Arts Integration Graduate Certificate comprises six courses of 3 units each, totaling 18 graduate units. The recommended course matrix includes a required core of 12 units and two electives equaling an additional 6 units. A minimum of 9 of the 18 units for the certificate must be taken through the Arts Integration Institute. The program is designed for flexible delivery to teachers, with courses taught on-site in local school districts or as a fully online program. The program includes the following partner institution experiences:
- The Artist Teacher Institute, offered through the University of Maryland and when taken for graduate credit, affords participants a summer program in arts integration and long-range strategic planning for their classrooms.
- Course work created by UMBC and taught by TU is focused on incorporating the arts with non-arts disciplines and evaluating student progress through the creation of electronic/digital portfolios.
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