EEI302 - Introduction to Creative Arts Therapy Approaches and Practices
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | This unit is not avilable for enrolment in 2025. From 2026: Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week
NIKERI (CBD): 3 x 6-hour on-campus intensive (workshops/seminars) per trimester 8 x 1-hour online seminars per week for 8-weeks |
| Note: | *Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) |
Content
The role of mixed and multimodal therapies that assist and support young people with additional needs is essential in enhancing learning, social skills, emotional regulation and behavioural skills for young people. This unit will introduce students to a range of therapies, including, but not limited to, visual and tactile arts, sensory experiences, drama, dance and music therapies and natural therapies including biophilia.
Therapeutic and education approaches will be explored and applied in workshops, during student fieldwork, placements or other educational contexts (working with a friend’s child, relative or in an out of school activity) to support the role of therapies as pedagogical approaches to education.
Students will complete a reflective journal to keep track of their engagement in workshops and relevance and application to their future profession. They will develop skills in collaborating with peers by exploring therapeutic interventions but as this is a unit in the School of Education it will also focus on how creative arts therapies can be adapted and applied to aid in young people's learning, socialisation, emotional and behavioural development.
Unit Fee Information
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