Availabilities:
Not currently available in 2020
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
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
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Commencing 2020 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 1
Fee paying courses
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International
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