Turn your passion for art into a meaningful teaching career. With SUNY Oswego's MAT Art program, those with a Bachelor of Fine Arts or credits in the fine arts area will become marketable K-12 art teachers.
Quick Facts
Rolling Admission Apply Anytime
You Can Start Fall, Spring or Summer
Delivery Option Main Campus
Cost Per Credit Hour $471
Credit Hours 42
Estimated Completion Time 2.5 Years
Overview
Students with a Bachelor of Fine Arts or at least 72 credits in a range of fine arts areas are eligible for this program. This program explores children's developmental art processes and explains why art education is so important in today's schools. Throughout your coursework and student teaching experiences, you will develop as a teacher from day one.
Two student teaching placements will prepare you to recognize the importance of culturally relevant teaching and incorporate relevant art and art history into your classes and schools. This program is intended for graduates of fine arts or equivalent programs who are priming for initial teaching certification to teach art in public schools at all grade levels.
Curriculum
Master of Art in Teaching
Foundational Education
Whatever career path you pursue, Oswego's Education programs will give you the theoretical foundation to push your practice to new levels of effectiveness and impact.
Outcomes
The program will prepare you to teach art in public schools in kindergarten through 12th grade. As a student in SUNY Oswego's nationally accredited program, you will expand your skill set in art and gain the necessary theoretical and practical foundation to create appropriate art lessons, units and assessments. Following completion of the program and NYS certification exams, candidates are eligible for New York State initial teaching certification.
Career Opportunities
- Elementary art teacher
- Secondary art teacher
- Middle school art teacher
- Museum educator
The diverse range of education and art courses are the puzzle pieces that make up the master art teacher. These courses and student teaching placements have fully prepared me not only to be an effective teacher, but to be an innovator in the field of art education.
