A degree in Art Education is for busy educators who have a passion for making and teaching art. Who want to enhance their skills, practice, advance their careers, and change their students' lives through the power of artistic expression. The program in the College of Education provides students with an intensive, hands-on, process-oriented instruction in a supportive atmosphere.

Our program is committed to preparing a new generation of educators and scholars by engaging them in critical inquiry of educational issues and needs germane to the large cities of the 21st century. You’ll gain knowledge and tools that facilitate conceptual understanding, defensible practices, and learning dispositions.

Our program is designed to prepare you with the teaching knowledge and skills for health and physical education teaching. You’ll gain the skill set to implement developmentally appropriate instruction for all learners, assessing health and physical education content knowledge and skill proficiency, using instructional technology effectively.

Secondary Education prepares teachers for education jobs with children in 7-12 grades. Our program leads to a Michigan Secondary Standard Teaching Certificate for teaching in English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies for both bachelor and graduate programs. Our program is designed to provide quality education to children in a classroom setting.

Our program is designed for teachers and other professionals who wish to enhance their content and pedagogical knowledge, as well as research skills in teaching and learning. You’ll be engaged in the study of teaching and learning using current theoretical developments in order to develop curriculum illustrating best practices and research inquiries in areas of your interest.

Minors allows undergraduate students in any department across all schools and colleges at Wayne State University to add a minor, which adds skills and knowledge as a credential to their degree programs.