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MA - Master of Arts
Cardiff (Atrium) Campus
Part Time
SEP-25
18 months
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MA - Master of Arts
Cardiff (Atrium) Campus
Part Time
SEP-25
18 months
Select a an exam type
The MA Arts Practice (Arts, Health and Wellbeing) course will be of value to artists, creative practitioners, therapists, community workers and teachers, plus others with an interest in pursuing professional practice within the expanding and vital field of arts, health and wellbeing.
The course is located within the practical world of Arts and Health, where arts practitioners work on the improvement of health environments through arts interventions, or in raising awareness of health issues through the delivery of artworks and events, or through offering individuals and groups practical experiences/projects/workshops that aim to improve wellbeing. Our students reflect the range of creative practices within the field; a key element of the MA is the scope of projects undertaken with the NHS, arts organisations, social services, local authorities, charitable trusts, schools, and colleges. The course will enable you to develop professional skills and experience within relevant critical and contextual frameworks and will equip you with the tools and principles you need to succeed as arts, health and wellbeing practitioners.
Assessment
Modules are largely assessed via practical outcomes, project proposals and research folios. Some modules make use of presentations and discussion of working methods and final outcomes. We will give you regular verbal feedback to help you develop your understanding during each module.
Teaching
You will study over a number of designated weekend sessions, held at approximately monthly intervals at our Cardiff campus, allowing you to study alongside other personal and work commitments you may have.
Weekends will include lectures, seminars, guest speakers and workshops; your study will be further supported via on-line tutorials. This blended approach to teaching, which combines face to face teaching with online support for study will enable you to develop as an independent, enterprising artist.
You will be encouraged to share your ongoing practice and research within a supportive learning environment, which broadens access to knowledge and experience, fosters communities of interest and common areas of creative practice within the cohort. Distinctive features of the course include, for example, the use of presentations of ongoing practice as a vehicle for learning and group critique, where students discuss their work with their peers and tutors.
Careers
Our students have progressed to employment as freelance arts practitioners working to commission and within community contexts, work with health boards, charities, local authorities and in the education sector. We are proud to have alumni who now have positions of responsibility in health boards and in advisory roles in the Arts Council of Wales. Graduates from this course are shaping the future of arts and health strategic development and practice.
We take pride in our professional links within this sector and provide support for our students to work with creative professionals through live projects.
A good undergraduate degree in a related discipline such as art or design or a significant body of practical work and/or written work in the field of the arts, that demonstrates competencies equivalent to a Bachelors degree. Applicants with appropriate qualifications in related fields such as teaching, art training, arts administration, occupational therapy, arts therapies, health sector management, arts and disability, social services, community work, youth work, or a period of professional employment in the field, will also be considered.
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