| Creative Process as Art Therapy |
2010 (001) |
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Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This is an entry-level experiential class which explores and implements concepts from art therapy and related fields. The course presents a blend of approaches including Eastern traditions, Jungian psychology, and other sources. Studio work and writing will be used as tools to understand and cultivate the discipline of self-awareness. The class will be structured as a community of participants engaging in and studying the phenomenon of the creative process. Each class meeting will involve art making and writing as well as discussion of ideas based on readings and experiences. This course is for anyone wanting to explore the relationship between art and life, self, other, and community in experiential and theoretical ways within an art therapy framework. It will be of value to those considering working with others using art, such as teachers or art therapists, as well as for those who may wish to establish art and/or writing as a form of practice and discipline in their lives. Open to all students.
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Class Number
1094
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Area of Study
Community & Social Engagement
Location
Sharp 403
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| Creative Process as Art Therapy |
2010 (002) |
Suellen Semekoski |
Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This is an entry-level experiential class which explores and implements concepts from art therapy and related fields. The course presents a blend of approaches including Eastern traditions, Jungian psychology, and other sources. Studio work and writing will be used as tools to understand and cultivate the discipline of self-awareness. The class will be structured as a community of participants engaging in and studying the phenomenon of the creative process. Each class meeting will involve art making and writing as well as discussion of ideas based on readings and experiences. This course is for anyone wanting to explore the relationship between art and life, self, other, and community in experiential and theoretical ways within an art therapy framework. It will be of value to those considering working with others using art, such as teachers or art therapists, as well as for those who may wish to establish art and/or writing as a form of practice and discipline in their lives. Open to all students.
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Class Number
1095
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Area of Study
Community & Social Engagement
Location
Sharp 404
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| Introduction to Art Therapy |
3009 (001) |
Leah Ra'Chel Gipson |
Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course is designed to offer students a didactic and experiential overview of the field of art therapy. Material covered will include history, theory, and practice of art therapy processes and approaches as well as a survey of populations, settings, and applications. Lecture, readings, discussion, audio-visual presentations, experiential exercises, and guest presentations comprise the structure of this course.
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Class Number
1101
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Area of Study
Community & Social Engagement
Location
Sharp 404
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| Disability Studies: Re-Imagining Bodies |
3018 (001) |
Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi |
Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
What is disability? How do we see, read, hear, smell and feel about disability? How does society represent disability and illness? How do artists theoretically and conceptually engage disability in their own practices? This course offers students critical thinking tools to examine the meanings of disability created by current social, cultural, economic and political systems. Over the course of the semester, students develop artistic vocabulary in relation to visual and cultural representations of disability found in mainstream society and in Disability Culture/Disability Art contexts.
Readings include the following topics: disability frameworks, disability as intersectional identity, and representations in art, media, fashion, and design . Students learn about the range and complexity of disability representations through the works of contemporary artists such as Riva Lehrer, Laura Swanson, and Christine Sun Kim, and through the work of dance and performance art groups. Students also read the work of disability scholars including Carrie Sandahl, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Eli Clare, Alison Kafer, and Petra Kuppers.
Coursework includes bi-weekly writing responses, a disability culture event paper, a media report, and a final art and writing project.
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Class Number
1100
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Area of Study
Gender and Sexuality, Narrative, Politics and Activisms
Location
Sharp 403
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| The Art of Nonviolence |
3025 (001) |
Suellen Semekoski |
Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course explores nonviolence through the nexus of contemplative reflection and people powered direct action. Research includes identifying personal, local and global exemplars of creative nonviolence through arts based inquiry. The history of nonviolence, the role of arts in nonviolent movements, mindfulness practices and nonviolent communication are foundations for the culminating project of the class. Students will engage in shared collaboration of artistic practices with an existing social action group in exploring love and protection or Gandhi?s soul force or Satyagraha.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must have completed one Art Therapy, Art Ed or Artsad class prior to enrolling.
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Class Number
1098
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Area of Study
Collaboration, Interaction and Participation, Politics and Activisms
Location
Sharp 403
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| Stitch-by-Stitch: Feminism as Practice |
3032 (001) |
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Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This interdisciplinary course considers the topic of craft practices and the therapeutic through the lens of feminist pedagogy, including theories of touch and interembodiment. Students will examine the critical role craft and the domestic arts have played in raising questions surrounding feminism, gender, and labor practices in everyday histories. The course examines local and international projects centering on memory, trauma and collaboration. The class will explore the ethics of community collaborations and how the practice of making can cultivate a sense of community, well-being, and social capital.
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Class Number
1097
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Area of Study
Gender and Sexuality, Community & Social Engagement
Location
Sharp 404
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| ARTTHER: Exploring Social Practice: Art as Activism and Community Health |
3934 (001) |
Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course focuses on the intersecting ways artists engage people individually and collectively through the arts, including activism, education, therapy and social practice. Students will partner with galleries and organizations to realize a collectively developed project. Throughout the course close attention will be given to critical practices and methods, the ethics or working with community participants, self-reflexivity, the nature of professionalism within arts contexts, and the goals and impacts of art made with a participating public.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Sophomore seminar course
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Class Number
2080
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Area of Study
Community & Social Engagement
Location
Sharp 402
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| Comics Narratives: Illness, Disability and Recovery |
4010 (001) |
Bianca Xunise |
Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course explores narratives of illness, stigma, and marginalization told through comics and graphic novels. Students engage in reading, discussing, and making comics dealing with topics of physical and psychiatric illness, caregiving, and recovery. The current 'graphic medicine' movement, applications of comics in art therapy, and graphic novels and comics dealing with narratives of illness outside of a therapeutic or medical context are discussed and used as inspiration to generate content for student projects.
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Class Number
1096
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Area of Study
Gender and Sexuality, Books and Publishing, Comics and Graphic Novels
Location
Sharp 403
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| Bodymind Extensions: Deviance, Disability/Illness Narratives and Haptic Memories |
4011 (001) |
Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi |
Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This experiential class is designed for artists who wish to develop a studio practice with a focus on the deviant bodymind histories and the representation of disability/illness narratives. Including perspectives both inside and outside of an artistic, therapeutic, and/or medical context. Students will learn to integrate disability aesthetics (Sieber, 2010), critical 'knowing-making' (Hamraie, 2017), crip technoscience (Hammraie and Fritsch, 2019), Crip Couture (Yi, 2020) and other disability art and design concepts and practices in their work. Students who are interested in the following area of practice/discipline might benefit from taking this course: art therapy and counseling, design object, fashion design, visual critical studies and fiber and materials studies.
Artists/designers/theorists that may be referenced in the course include Panteha Abareshi, Kristina Veasey, Laura Splan, Rebecca Horn, Harriet Sanderson, Sins Invalid, Daniel Moraes, Lisa Bufano, Aimi Hamraie, Kelly Fritsch, Tobin Siebers.
Students will create artworks that serve as an 'extension' of their bodymind state. 'Extensions' can include but are not limited to body adornments; wearable designs; physical, emotional or psychological aids; relational/interactive performances. Students will explore and choose media that reflect the wearer's (and or participant's) haptic memories and experiences of deviancy. Light reading, lectures, class discussions, gallery visits and visiting artist's talk will provide inspiration for students to develop their project.
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Class Number
1099
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Area of Study
Gender and Sexuality, Costume Design, Class, Race, Ethnicity
Location
Sharp 402
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| Professional Development and Career Counseling |
6006 (001) |
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Thurs
8:15 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course engages the student in examining career development from both personal and professional perspectives. Readings, lectures, discussions, and experiential learning address the theory and methods of career counseling, including educational and career histories; evaluation of occupational interests and aptitudes; and the development of skills for gaining and maintaining employment.
Prerequisites
You must be a Masters of Art in Art Therapy student or have instructor consent to take this class.
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Class Number
1856
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Location
Sharp 403
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| Graduate Thesis II: Art Therapy |
6011 (001) |
Elia Khalaf |
Fri
12:15 PM - 3:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course continues the thesis writing process in which the final components of the body of the paper, discussion, and conclusion are created. Preparing, planning, and producing the thesis provides a point of view and documentation of original ideas in art therapy. Students can utilize a variety of descriptive approaches in writing their theses (e.g. narrative, case study, traditional research, ethnographic). In addition to finishing the thesis in written form, each student is required to do a formal presentation of their thesis material. There are creative opportunities for traditional and nontraditional forms of presentation. Both visual and written material may be included in this thesis, which is supervised by an adviser from the art therapy faculty.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: ARTTHER 6010
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Class Number
2102
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Location
Sharp 404
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| Art Therapy Fieldwork III |
6020 (001) |
Leah Ra'Chel Gipson |
Fri
8:15 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course provides group supervision to support the internship component of the Master of Arts in Art Therapy and a Counseling program. Internship students participate in a minimum of one hour of weekly individual supervision with a qualified fieldwork site supervisor in addition to 3 hours of weekly group supervision with a faculty supervisor per the MAATC fieldwork supervision agreement. Over the course of the semester, students complete 250 service hours which must include approximately 100 hours of direct service with clients and contribute to the development of basic to intermediate skills for a specialized area of art therapy and counseling practice. This professional practice course builds on the skills acquired in the practicum experience. Students must demonstrate an applied understanding of assessment, treatment approaches, and the therapeutic relationship in art therapy and counseling. Students also become familiar with a variety of professional activities including referral sources, case review, record keeping, preparation, staff meetings, and other administrative functions. Prerequisite: ARTTHER 6001 ¿ Art Therapy Fieldwork II
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: ARTTHER 6001
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Class Number
1857
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Location
Sharp 403
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| Art Therapy Fieldwork III |
6020 (002) |
Freddy Malone |
Fri
8:15 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course provides group supervision to support the internship component of the Master of Arts in Art Therapy and a Counseling program. Internship students participate in a minimum of one hour of weekly individual supervision with a qualified fieldwork site supervisor in addition to 3 hours of weekly group supervision with a faculty supervisor per the MAATC fieldwork supervision agreement. Over the course of the semester, students complete 250 service hours which must include approximately 100 hours of direct service with clients and contribute to the development of basic to intermediate skills for a specialized area of art therapy and counseling practice. This professional practice course builds on the skills acquired in the practicum experience. Students must demonstrate an applied understanding of assessment, treatment approaches, and the therapeutic relationship in art therapy and counseling. Students also become familiar with a variety of professional activities including referral sources, case review, record keeping, preparation, staff meetings, and other administrative functions. Prerequisite: ARTTHER 6001 ¿ Art Therapy Fieldwork II
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: ARTTHER 6001
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Class Number
1858
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Credits
3
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Department
Art Therapy
Location
Sharp 402
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