美术学士学位，专注于艺术教育，可以帮助个人成为K-12年级的美术老师。艺术教育许可计划旨在为学生提供广泛的文科课程，专业研究计划以及教学领域的专业。该计划的目的是与田纳西理工大学的教师教育的总体目标保持一致，目的是促进职前教师的智力和创造力增长，提供必要的知识和技能，使其具备沟通和指导能力，以发展教师在内容领域所必需的知识和技能，以使内容适应学生的需求，并为教师提供获取和实施提高学生创造力的策略的手段，而不论其社会经济或身体/心理的局限性如何这些学生。
The degree Bachelor of Fine Arts, concentration in art education, prepares individuals to become art teachers in Grades K-12. The program for licensure in Art Education is designed to provide students with a broad liberal arts component, a program of professional studies, and a major in the teaching field. The purpose of the program, in keeping with the overall purpose of teacher education at Tennessee Technological University, is to foster the intellectual and creative growth of the preservice teacher, to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to become competent in communication and instruction, to develop the knowledge and skills in the content area necessary to the teacher to adapt the content to the needs of students, and to provide the teacher the means to acquire and implement strategies for developing creativity in students, regardless of the socioeconomic or physical/mental limitations of these students.