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Undergraduate TAS-FXA9302-2020

Perspectives of the Arts on Health and Wellbeing

Enrolments for this year have closed. Keep exploring subjects.

Duration

14 weeks

Study method

100% online

Available loans

  • HECS-HELP
  • FEE-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

UTAS
Australia’s fourth oldest university, the University of Tasmania, is highly regarded internationally for teaching and academic excellence. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees and more than 50 postgraduate programs across a range of disciplines. The university offers students a diverse range of opportunities, the chance to learn from leading experts, and excellent preparation for their future careers.

QS RANKING 2021

19

Times Higher Education Ranking 2021

25

Subject details

What you'll learn

Note: Students may only enrol in this subject (TAS-FXA9302) if they are admitted to the Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Arts and Health. All other students should enrol in TAS-FXA302.

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and reflect critically on the impact of illness and disability on creativity and the role of creative work as expression and coping mechanisms
  2. Synthesise knowledge, research skills, and cultural awareness to inform empathetic person-centred care employing the creative arts
  3. Propose solutions to problems in real-life scenarios of the use of creative arts to promote health and wellbeing
  4. Communicate effectively to general and specialist audiences demonstrating creativity and interdisciplinary understandings of the interrelationships between creative arts, health and wellbeing
Topics covered
    • To be confirmed at the commencement of the study term
Entry requirements

Equivalent subjects

You cannot enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

  • TAS-FXA302-Perspectives of the Arts on Health and Wellbeing

Special requirements

No special requirements

Description

This subject explores historical and current case studies of creative arts practitioners from a range of cultural contexts living with physical or mental illness and the ways this is reflected or subsumed in their work. This engagement with creative work provides valuable perspective on lived experience and insights into the impacts of acquired or congenital disability or illness on the creative process and the impacts of the arts on health and wellbeing of individuals. The subject will draw on perspectives and literature of Health Humanities that reinforce empathy in engagement with people experiencing physical or mental illness and promotes patient-centred care and can underpin and enhance a current or future role in planning or delivery of arts programs in the healthcare settings and the community.

Assessments

  • Quiz (20%)
  • Poster presentation (30%)
  • Essay (40%)
  • Contribution to online discussions (10%)
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