Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Arts and Health

Program Overview

The Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Arts and Health explores the impact of arts on health and well-being in social and cultural contexts. It provides practical skills in implementing arts programs in community and healthcare settings. The program offers a range of elective units, including arts in the community, perspectives on health and well-being, and stress management. Graduates gain valuable insights for careers in welfare, recreation, and community arts, as well as personal growth and self-care.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

• **This course may not be available to international students.
Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students**
• **The Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Arts and Health will develop your understanding of the effects of the arts on the brain and body in social and cultural contexts.
This course will introduce you to ethical and effective implementation of arts programmes in both community and healthcare settings.

• **If you are studying to learn about self-care and explore your own creativity, we offer a range of creative arts and health units for you to choose from.
You'll also have the option to study a unit on self-care, mindfulness, and stress management.

• **After completing this course, you will have a greater understanding of how different creative expressions can influence your own health and the wellbeing of others.

• **Commonwealth Supported Places are available for this course, see Fees & scholarships for more information.

• **Please visit our Certificates page for answers to frequently asked questions about the Job Ready Certificates.

Outline:

Core units

• Complete one of the following units:

FXA100 The Arts and Dementia Care

• FXA101 Creativity for Life

Elective units

• Complete three of the following units:

CZZ104 Living and Working with Cultural Diversity

FXA202 The Photo Essay: Storytelling with image and text

FXA301 Arts in the Community

FXA302 Perspectives of the Arts on Health and Wellbeing

PSY112 Brain and Behaviour

Careers:

• **The Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Arts and Health provides valuable skills and health insights for a range of professional and personal contexts.

• **If you’re already working in the health or community sectors or caring for an individual it will introduce you to interventions employing arts-based activities, including music, theatre, dance and visual arts.

• **It is also an ideal pathways if you're looking to expand your creative arts practice, or interested in the way the arts can support your own wellbeing and personal growth.

• **This is an excellent opportunity to further your career in welfare, recreation and community arts as employment projections are upwards trending and set to grow by 28.2% by 2024*.
• **In addition to developing job-ready skills, you'll also have the option to pursue to further study in the Diploma of Creative Arts and Health.

• ABS Labour Force Survey, National Skills Commission trend data to May 2019 and projections to 2024