In this research, a total of 8 female students, 4 foreign nationals and 4 Turkish students, who were final year students of Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University Faculty of Education, Department of Basic Education, Department of Classroom Teaching, were studied. Two of the foreign students are from Syria and two from Iraq. The research consists of data obtained during the visual arts education course conducted by the researcher in the spring semester of the 2023-2024 academic year. These data were analyzed by taking into consideration the principles of artistic design elements such as dots, lines, colors, stains and textures, and were evaluated comparatively with other research groups participating in the same process with foreign students. Document analysis method and descriptive analysis method, which are qualitative research techniques, were used in the research. With the data obtained at the end of the research, results were obtained such that foreign students were very compatible with the process (due to the lack of language problems), did not experience any difficulties in design studies, on the contrary, they were able to produce very successful works.

Foreign students, visual arts, classroom teacher candidates