Secondary teaching – visual art

In NSW and other Australian states visual art teachers can usually qualify to teach visual art exclusively or as one of two teaching areas. People who are interested in a career teaching only visual art would normally be required to complete university studies in all of the following:

• art
  
  
• education as a social science
  
  
• professional and curriculum studies (teaching methodology).
  
  

People wishing to qualify to teach another subject in addition to visual art, would normally need to complete studies in that teaching area, for example, English, geography, a language, mathematics or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Recommended studies for HSC students

The undergraduate degree-pathway for high-school students who are contemplating a career teaching visual art requires five-years' study and results in the award of a double degree: Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education: Humanities and Social Sciences) and Bachelor of Arts.

Year 10 students who are hoping to enrol in a university course that would result in a qualification to teach visual art, and who are about to choose their HSC subjects, would benefit from studying visual art and/or design and technology, but neither is a prerequisite at the University of Sydney.

Prerequisites for graduate-entry applicants

Graduates with a first degree that includes studies appropriate to teaching in visual art may be eligible for admission to the Master of Teaching. Undergraduate studies that are generally appropriate for entry into the MTeach for visual art include a Bachelor of Fine Art. The detailed prerequisites are available in the graduate-entry section of "Future students".