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Unit of Study AAD72208 - Art and Health (2019)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    <96> credit points in any SCU unit

  • Enrolment information

    A minimum 80% attendance record for all scheduled classes is required to qualify for a passing grade.

Unit description

Provides an overview of the relationship between creative engagement through the arts and its somatic effects on health. This unit will offer a rich exploration of current debates and practice, exploring areas such as: art therapy, music therapy, psychology and medicine. Other topics may also address death and dying, childhood illness, community development and responses to trauma.

Unit content

  • Art therapy
  • Music therapy
  • Psychology and medicine
  • Alternate health practices
  • Design and architecture and its affect on health and wellbeing
  • Death and dying and palliative care
  • Self expression and material symbolism

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Lismore Session 2 Session 2
Online Session 2 N/A

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 describe the relationship between the wider community and contemporary arts practices and discourses on health
2 critique and evaluate public, community and arts health programs, their objectives, methods, practices and outcomes
3 develop the concept, aims and objectives of a program for community engagement with the arts
4 demonstrate understanding of practical approaches to using artistic expression and its health effects.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. describe the relationship between the wider community and contemporary arts practices and discourses on health
    • GA3:
    • GA7:
  2. critique and evaluate public, community and arts health programs, their objectives, methods, practices and outcomes
    • GA3:
  3. develop the concept, aims and objectives of a program for community engagement with the arts
    • GA4:
  4. demonstrate understanding of practical approaches to using artistic expression and its health effects.
    • GA4:

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.