Structure
Course Structure
The course is offered as full-time and part-time. The majority of students are part-time and many are practitioners wanting to improve, refresh and enhance their practice or those who wish to begin working in the field.
Full-time students study over three terms (48 weeks) in one year.
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Term 1
Core Module: Art as a Therapeutic Experience + Two Option Modules |
Term 2
Core Module: Art & Health Shared Module: Research in Practice + One Option Module |
Term 3
Final Presentation / Dissertation |
Part-time students study over 6 terms (2 years) of 48 weeks per year.
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Term 1
Core Module: Art as a Therapeutic Experience + 1 Option |
Term 2
Core Module: Art & Health + 1 Option |
Term 3
Shared Module: Research in Practice + 1 Option if not taken in T1/2 |
| + Option if not taken in 1st Yr |
Final Presentation / Dissertation |
Final Presentation / Dissertation |
You will leave the course with an appreciation of research methods and techniques appropriate to health and well-being agendas, as well as the professional knowledge that is required to practice in the field. Learning is predominately through lectures and seminars with opportunities for more practical approaches, such as using multimedia and technology, in the taught programme.
Shared Option Modules (15 credits)
Term 1:
Advanced Practice
Art in the Public Realm
Arts Policy and Cultural Planning
Discourses in Art and Design
Perspectives on Art as a Global Human Experience
Subjectivity, Arts and Culture
Term 2:
Art and New Media
Models and Methods of Curatorial Practice
Mythologies of Madness
Photography as Research
Project Planning
Queer Strategies in Practice
Small Arts Business Set Up
Unconscious to Conscious Theories
Modules
Core Modules for Art, Health and Well-being students:
Art as a Therapeutic Experience: This module is a 10-week structured, experiential workshop where students are able to explore the possibilities of creating images using fantasy and imagination. The therapeutic content isidentified through the group process and as a quality of attention and presence. This offers students new ways of learning through the use of art. Students are asked to keep a reflective diary following each workshop of personal responses in the group, and of the group, to the images made and relate this to group theory particularly found in art therapy texts. Your diary, in addition to reading on group dynamic theory and group art therapy, will form the basic research for a written assignment on a particular aspect of process involved in group work.
Art and Health: This module will consider and explore the range of participatory arts practice that takes place within health and well-being contexts, or which has, as one of its targets, an impact on health and well-being. The module will introduce students to a range of case studies from a variety of projects. Discussions about work in the field, as represented through the case studies, will involve consideration of the location of different approaches and the extent to which reflexive, reflective and inclusive approaches can lead to meaningful engagement. Consideration will also be given to more formulaic approaches and the extent to which working with targeted groups could be seen to pathologise by assuming common needs and experiences. Students will be encouraged to reflect on their own practice and experience to begin to locate their work and develop a rationale for their own approach.