Art Education

Wenzhou-Kean University

Chinese Curricula Center

AE Curriculum (AY 2026)

1. Mission

We aim to start from the cognitive level of art and carry out the educational concepts of our country. By cultivating students’ interests in exploring arts, we can strengthen their thinking and practical abilities in art, improve their intellectual aesthetic level, and guide students to establish positive aesthetic cognition, so as to cultivate the students’ right world outlook, life views, and values, and help the students develop a more diverse, objective, and inclusive thinking and understanding to the surroundings.

2. Student Learning Outcomes

1. To feel, express, appreciate and create beauty.
2. To Cultivate elegant aesthetic taste and improve humanistic quality.
3. To understand and absorb excellent Chinese and foreign artistic achievements, and to understand and respect diversified cultures.

3. Course Offerings

Students (Including students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Oversea Chinese Students) are required to take a total of 2 credits in AE within four years (Spring or Fall). Each 1 credit course takes 75 minutes every week, total class hour is 1125 minutes;

The types of courses are divided into Aesthetics and Art History, Art appreciation and Criticism, Artistic experience and Practice. Contains Music (guitar, ukulele, electric piano, Music appreciation, etc.), Art (creative arts, Art appreciation, floral design, beauty makeup, etc.), Dance (modern dance, aerobic art, ballet, dance appreciation, etc.), Chinese traditional culture (Modern art Creation (Ou sculpture), Chinese tea ceremony, etc.), Film and television media (Film appreciation, Broadcasting and Hosting Art), etc.

* The above is a list of art courses, with slight adjustments to the courses that open each semester.

4. SLO Assessment Requirements (Content of assessment, assessment measurements, grading scale and related rubrics)

Each instructor is responsible for evaluating students based on following criteria and giving them scores: (The evaluation standard can be fine-tuned according to the curriculum design of the teacher, but the score and grade cannot be modified)

• Attendance and performance (15%). Students who miss more than one third of the total number of courses for any reason will be disqualified from the final assessment and will be given a final grade of F.
• Participance (15%)
• Homework (30%)
• Assessment/thesis/Skill assessment (40%). Appropriate assessment methods shall be selected by the course teachers according to the course requirements (to be determined after the review of relevant art teaching management personnel), such as lectures, MOOCS, analysis of experience after visiting and studying/completion of assigned works/submission of paper papers, etc. Among them, the skill assessment examines the students’ ability to complete their works independently or collaboratively, and scores them according to the degree of completion of specific works and personal progress.
• Registered courses but not participating in the whole course will be deemed as absenteeism and the final score will be recorded as F; If he/she fails to withdraw from the course within the time specified by the Academic Affairs Department and does not continue to study the course in that semester, he/she will be treated as absenteeism and the final score will be recorded as F.
• Assessment Score and grade:

A 93~100   A-90~92   B+86~89   B83~85   B-80~82   C+76~79   C70~75    D60-69    F60

5. Other Instructions: Students should do a good job in the management of their courses to avoid grades effects or other negative consequence. The following cases will be handled according to the corresponding rules. Please read them carefully and observe them. Thanks for your corporation.

• If the registered course is not taken, it will be treated as absenteeism and the final score will be marked as F.
• Students who fail to drop the course within the time set by the Register Office and fail to continue the course in that semester will be treated as absenteeism, and the final score will be recorded as F.
• If the accumulated time of asking for leave or absent from class for any reason exceeds one third of the total class hours (including one third), the students cannot take the final exam, and the final score will be marked as F.
• Email is a formal and effective way for university to communicate with students. It is also an important tool for students to receive notifications of school information. Students should timely check the emails sent by the university (both WKU mail and Kean mail).
• If there is a problem with the mailbox, or students worry that they have not received the mail, they need to timely contact the relevant departments through various ways for consultation. Otherwise, relevant problems and consequences will be borne by the students themselves.