Overview of Art Education Programmes in Ghanaian Universities.

Quality art education should be the hallmark of the Government of Ghana and art education authorities for the development of the nation. Teachers of Art at the various levels of education should be well equipped with the necessary artistic training, teaching skills and strategies that would enable them to deliver the subject matter effectively. Quality art education can be suppressed if there is poor art teaching and poor performance of art teachers in Ghanaian schools and colleges. Teachers who fall victim to such situations should not be blamed alone but the system that produced them should also be held responsible. A cursory study of the state of art teaching in Ghanaian senior high schools makes it imperative to examine the art education programme in the University of Education in Winneba (UEW). As a first step of the research, this paper studies the enrolment of students admitted over ten academic years; credits, contact hours and structure of courses offered; graduation of students for the period under review; and the extent to which the curriculum is achieving its intended outcome in the teaching profession. The results have indicated, among others, that although the contents of the courses are intensive and extensive, they are nonetheless relevant to cover the requirements for the world of work.