BA in Education and Design or Education and Fine Art

at National College of Art and Design

• In First Year, your course of study will be largely focussed on the development of your capacities in Fine Art or Design. In Year 2 you will continue to follow the degree programme you have chosen in Fine Art or Design but you will also follow certain modules that will introduce you to aspects of education and begin to prepare you for teaching in various settings. For the first half of your Third Year, you will continue your Fine Art or Design studies, along with some Education elements.

• Then for the second half of your Third Year, you will be engaged full-time in Education. You will have an extended placement in a school where you will be supported in learning the role and functions of a teacher. There will be some college-based work as well, providing you with a theoretical base for your teaching.

• In the first half of your fourth year, you will continue on a full-time education programme. This will involve another extended placement in a recognised school as well as further education studies and space for reflection, based in college. Finally, for the second half of your fourth year, you will re-engage with your studio practice in Fine Art or Design, and will bring your studies to conclusion with your final end-of year exhibition of work.

English Language RequirementInternational English Language Testing System (IELTS)
 

• An average score of 6.5 over all components and a minimum of 6.0 in each band on the Academic Version.

Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
 

• A minimum score of 90 is required in the Internet based TOEFL (iBT) with no less than 21 in writing and at least 19 in every other section.

Non EU/International Fees
 

• €16,500

Art teachers work in a variety of settings – in second-level schools, in further education, with very young children, with adults, in museums and galleries, in prisons and in many other places where education takes place.