This Masters programme builds on a number of existing Special Purpose Awards all centred on learning through expressive meaning-making: Arts-based Facilitation Training, Creativity and Change-making, Arts and Wellbeing, Eco Arts and Art Therapy. These programmes educate through and activate different modes of communication and promote learning through experiential and reflective practice.

 

Participants on the Masters will develop an understanding of the role of the arts within learning and engagement and will develop the skills to apply this to a range of contexts. Core modules over the two-year programme relate to theories of arts engagement; group theory; research methods in the arts; and engagement through materiality and metaphor. Through research, reflection, group and practical work, participants will explore different ways of learning, socially engaged arts practices, contemporary methodologies when working with groups, investigating the personal/societal transformational power of the arts.

 

Through elective modules in year one, opportunities will be provided to broaden skill sets through Eco-Arts Practice, or Art Therapy. In the second year, opportunity will be given for students to develop their ongoing arts practice informed by, and in relation to, one of two strands of engagement – Arts & Wellbeing or Global Citizenship (Creativity and Change).