Art with Young Children (weekend)

Students will explore the creative process through art, music, poetry, andstorytelling. The emphasis is on the arts as communication, as a reflection of culture andhistory, and as a tool for community building and interacting in all aspects of the curriculum.Students examine the benefits of arts-based curriculum in the development of imagination andcognitive, language and communication, and social skills. The course demonstrates the use ofcultural arts in developing Total Physical Response (TPR) and identity development strategies.Students examine examples of multiple intelligences and planning curriculum (using the culturalarts) to respond to a variety of strengths and kinds of intelligences. Students also gain skills inrecognizing and defining various poetic forms, musical rhythms, and storytelling approaches(including conceptualization of a personal style, development of the ideas, techniques, andorganization of the art’s elements to form creative work).  This course is a dual language course in which the instructor will teach using Spanish language.