After graduation
After graduationOn the Fine Art and Design in Education course in Arnhem, you will develop into a broadly-trained specialist in the field of art education. Once you graduate, you will be a professional who has their own artistic skills, but who is also able to make the world of art and culture accessible to all kinds of different people in different places.
Title and diploma
After successfully completing the Fine Art and Design in Education course in Arnhem, you may use the title Bachelor of Education (BEd).
This course may be found in the Dutch Central Register of Courses in Higher Education (CROHO) under code 39100. The formal name of the course, under which it is known in CROHO, is Bachelor of Fine Art and Design in Education. This CROHO name will appear on your diploma.
Starting work
After completing the Fine Art and Design in Education course, you will have access to a very broad professional field. You can work as an art educator both within and outside mainstream education, either for a business or organisation or as a freelancer. The professional practice is very diverse; many of our alumni work not just as teachers but also as makers, educators or curators.
- These are the alumni of Fine Art and Design in Education.
Working in education
Within mainstream education, you can work in primary education, special needs education, the first phase of secondary education, the senior years of preparatory middle-level vocational education (VMBO) and the second phase of secondary education/preparatory higher education (VHO). You can work as a teacher of visual arts, but also, for example, as a teacher of cultural and artistic studies, general art, art history, media design or drawing. In addition, as a qualified teacher of visual arts and design, you will be entitled to teach at secondary and higher vocational (MBO and HBO) level. You obtain a broad teaching qualification.
Art education outside mainstream education
With your diploma, you can also work in the field of art education. Within the institutions in this field, you can perform policy-making, coordinating or more executive roles. These could include: museums, cultural institutions, artists' initiatives, festivals and online platforms.
Continuing your studies?
After the Fine Art and Design in Education course, you can take various master courses. For example, Art History, Education in Arts or IMAE (International Master Artist Educator). For some masters, you first have to complete a premaster.