EXA 2100 ART AS A THERAPEUTIC PROCESS
This course explores the relationship between creative expression, individual wellness, and community well-being. Through hands-on studio projects, students will engage such concepts as imagination, empathy, and play while exploring how the creative process holds the potential for cultivating growth, insight, self-awareness, and resilience. As the introductory course in the expressive arts minor, students will also become conversant in expressive arts foundational concepts and theoretical frameworks.
Course Types
Studio course
Notes
- To articulate, verbally and in writing, intermodal approaches in the expressive arts and apply them through personal art projects
- To articulate, verbally and in writing, the “low-skill / high sensitivity” approach in the expressive arts
- To explain the “decentering” approach in expressive arts contexts
- To demonstrate understanding of goals and processes for artistic expression in an expressive arts context
- To discern between feedback in a studio art context and feedback in an expressive arts context–this includes explaining the difference between “witnessing” and “critique” in response to creative works