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What is the major of art education?
Art education majors learn basic knowledge of art, pedagogy theory and art education theory.

1, basic knowledge of art: learn painting, sketch, watercolor, oil painting and other artistic techniques, and master basic knowledge of art such as color theory, composition principle and perspective method.

2. Pedagogical theory: Learn relevant theories in the field of education, such as children's developmental psychology, educational psychology and educational methodology, and understand the core values and educational goals of art education.

3. Art education theory: learn the theory and practice of art education, understand art courses and teaching methods at different stages of education, and cultivate students' ability to guide art development.

Art education mainly studies basic theories related to art, grasps scientific educational theories and teaching methods, accepts the cultivation of teachers' basic quality and ability, can organize extracurricular art activities, has preliminary scientific research and creative ability, understands the development trends and frontier topics of art education at home and abroad, preliminarily grasps a foreign language, and can read foreign language books and periodicals of this major. For example, teaching oil painting, Chinese painting, decorative painting, calligraphy, seal cutting and other courses.