Art education is a major category of cultural education, with liberal arts as the mainstay.

The major of art education aims at cultivating all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics, systematically mastering the basic theoretical knowledge of art and the necessary professional ethics and skills of art teachers, being able to better adapt to the reform and development of ethnic education and be competent for art teaching in primary schools, and taking into account the cultivation of practical and applied talents engaged in related work of art major.