An internship with community youth agencies in the Meadville area whose institutional goal is to give children rangin in age from kindergarten through high school a safe place to have fun and learn in a drug-free, smake-free, and violence-free environment after school hours. This internship is designed to introduce and exemplify art's capacity for allowing and encouraging conncetion to community as well as art's ability to augment personal development in both students and reachers. This internship is ideal for the student who has an interest in teaching art, in incorportaing art into the general classroom curriculum, or in art therapy.

      The internship will:

1) Acquaint the student with the concept of a community youth center and the services is provides.

2) Facilitate the connection of the making of one's own art with the teaching of art to others.

3) Involve the student ins the planning and implementation of appropriate art experiences.

4) Familiarize students with traditional and current trends in art education through reading and research.

      The intern will meet regularly with the agency director for discussion and supervision as well as weekly conferences with the internship instructor to review assigned readings, discuss the design of the classroom experiences, and review and reflect upon the results of these expereinces. Performance will be evaluated by the on-site supervisor in consulation with internship faculty. In addition, the faculty will evaluate the student's written work consisting of a journal integrating on-site experiences with the assigned readings and a research paper.

      Prerequisite: Art 151, 155 or 156, 261, and the approval of the supervising faculty member. Must be taken for credit only and may be repeated. Credit: Two or Four semester hours.

     For more information, contact Professor Sue Buck <sbuck@alleg.edu>.