强调艺术教育的目的是培养敏感，有见识，关心和有才能的艺术家，他们善于使用人际交往和创造性的工具在加利福尼亚州的学校教授视觉艺术。“艺术教育重点”课程为学生提供了广泛的基础和高级艺术经验，以满足加州公立学校学生多样化的需求。该计划包括制作二维，三维，美术，手工艺，设计和新类型课程的创意作品。此外，学生还将在艺术史，发展和美学理论方面有基础，以补充自己在创作过程中的经验，并确保他们精通艺术教育和社区的重大问题。
The purpose of the Art Education emphasis is to create sensitive, informed, caring, and capable artists who are skilled in using interpersonal and creative tools to teach the visual arts in California schools.<br><br>The Arts Education Emphasis provides students with the broad range of foundational and advanced arts experience necessary to address the diverse needs of students in California's public schools. This program includes producing creative work in two-dimensional, three-dimensional, fine arts, crafts, design, and new genre courses. Additionally, the students will have a foundation in art history and developmental and aesthetic theory to supplement their own experience of the creative process and to ensure that they are conversant in the larger issues and concerns of arts education and in the community.<br><br>While the purpose of the program is to develop a successful individual response to the course demands and the principles of art education, the program also emphasizes the social and creative role each student plays in the development of others, including the encouragement of peers within the program, students in their practicum classroom, and creating social justice within the larger community.<br><br>Learning Outcomes<br>By the senior year, each student will develop a teaching portfolio and an exhibition quality body of work. They will demonstrate a professional approach to making and marketing their own personal art, be particularly sensitive to the role of the arts in creating social change, and have experience in proposing and developing community arts projects. This means we intend for our graduating students to express their artistic identity by participating in the senior exhibition and to demonstrate in their teaching portfolio the knowledge, skills, and disposition of effective art educators who are concerned about social issues and willing to make a positive difference within California's public schools.