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Unit aim
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
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Art therapy
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Music therapy
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Psychology and medicine
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Alternate health practices
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Design and architecture and its affect on health and wellbeing
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Death and dying and palliative care
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Self expression and material symbolism
Learning outcomes
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.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
GA1: Intellectual rigour,
GA2: Creativity,
GA3: Ethical practice,
GA4: Knowledge of a discipline,
GA5: Lifelong learning,
GA6: Communication and social skills,
GA7: Cultural competence| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 |
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| 1 | describe the relationship between the wider community and contemporary arts practices and discourses on health | | | Ethical practice | | | | Cultural competence |
| 2 | critique and evaluate public, community and arts health programs, their objectives, methods, practices and outcomes | | | Ethical practice | | | | |
| 3 | develop the concept, aims and objectives of a program for community engagement with the arts | | | | Knowledge of a discipline | | | |
| 4 | demonstrate understanding of practical approaches to using artistic expression and its health effects. | | | | Knowledge of a discipline | | | |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- describe the relationship between the wider community and contemporary arts practices and discourses on health
- GA3:
Ethical practice
- GA7:
Cultural competence
- critique and evaluate public, community and arts health programs, their objectives, methods, practices and outcomes
- develop the concept, aims and objectives of a program for community engagement with the arts
- GA4:
Knowledge of a discipline
- demonstrate understanding of practical approaches to using artistic expression and its health effects.
- GA4:
Knowledge of a discipline
Prescribed texts
Prescribed texts may change in future study periods.