Children and the Arts
UndergraduateLTU-EDU3CAA2025
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 7 Sept 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Start dates
- 15 Sept 2025
- Price from
- $578
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Children and the Arts
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a familiarity with arts education pedagogies and practices.
- Understand the role of the teacher in supporting young children’s learning in the arts.
- Design and implement quality arts experiences for young children.
- How Children Learn in the Arts
- The Musical Child
- Visual Arts Making
- Dramatic Expression
- Planning for Learning in the Arts
In this subject, preservice teachers will explore how young children learn in and through the arts. They will become familiar with pedagogies and practices across the visual arts, 3-dimensional arts, music, creative movement/dance, and drama. Preservice teachers will engage in and reflect upon their own creative processes, with reference to arts-based theories, practices, and research. They will create a teaching resource that connects their learning in this subject with their work-based experience.
- Diagnostic task (equivalent to 400 words). This assessment task will be undertaken within the first 2 weeks of the term. (10%)
- Arts project (equivalent to 1600 words). (40%)
- Arts teaching resource (equivalent to 2000 words). (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-ECE-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: EBECEO.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
UndergraduateLAT-ECE-DEG