The Master of Arts in Transformative Arts (68 units) in the School of Holistic Studies, Department of Arts & Consciousness addresses a growing cultural imperative that art must reassume its integral position in the community.
The transformative arts program develops the artist's creative work with a focus on healing and personal growth. It prepares students to become facilitators of positive change in the world through art and the creative process.
The MA in Transformative Arts program reflects the long tradition of art and healing in most of the world's cultures - an understanding of the deep relationship between creativity, community, health, and spirit. The world of contemporary art increasingly recognizes that community and cultural interaction are essential to the creation and evaluation of artwork. Beginning with the work of the Fluxus movement in the 1960s and moving on to innumerable earth-based, community and collaborative art works, artists have strived to integrate social change and artistic expression. With this profound change in the way art is viewed comes a change in the way artists must be educated.
Transformative arts students have diverse artistic practices and levels of experience. Many have backgrounds in visual arts, but some are poets, musicians, dancers, or performance artists. Some have discovered their creative path relatively recently, while others have been practicing their art for many years. These diverse students find common ground through their investigation of the relationship between inner being and outer work. They share a focus toward service to others through artistic expression.
Graduates from this master's degree program have embarked on careers in community arts education, healing arts, and educational consulting. They have been remarkably successful working as teachers and facilitators of personal growth in schools, colleges, hospitals, clinics, spiritual centers, and other institutions. Many alumni teach small groups or work individually with students in their own studios. Others offer special workshops and other community activities that broaden and enrich the community.
All courses in the Department of Arts & Consciousness are held at the John F. Kennedy University Berkeley Campus.
Curriculum
The M.A. in Transformative Arts degree can be completed in approximately two years, although students may complete the program at their own pace (within departmental guidelines). Transformative arts courses include creative exercises that help students facilitate their own personal growth and acquire skills for facilitating this experience for others.
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MA in Transformative Arts Degree Requirements
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| Specialization in Movement, Improvisation and PoeticsMA degree with Career Requirements |
| Undergraduate Pre-requisites |
20 |
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World Religions |
3 |
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Spiritual Practice |
2 |
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World Art History Survey |
3 |
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Modern Art |
3 |
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Contemporary Art |
3 |
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Applied Studio Practice |
6 |
| Graduate Program |
68 |
| Core Course |
3 |
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Paradigms of Consciousness |
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| Theory and Process |
21 |
| A&C 5312 |
Creativity and Consciousness |
3 |
| A&C 5310 |
Art & Symbolic Process |
3 |
| A&C 5360 |
Community Collaboration A |
3 |
| A&C 5361 |
Community Collaboration B |
3 |
| A&C 5675 |
Artist's Resources |
3 |
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Theory and Process Electives |
6 |
| Transformative Arts |
18 |
| A&C 5100 |
Introduction to Transformative Arts |
3 |
| A&C 5255 |
Transformative Arts Seminar |
6 |
| A&C 5200 |
Transformative Arts Electives |
6 |
| A&C 5260 |
Teaching Practicum |
3 |
| Studio Arts Electives |
12 |
| Group studio practice, mentorship, media of sacred arts. |
| General Electives |
9 |
| A&C 5555 |
Mid point review |
1 |
| A&C 5988 |
Final Project A: Transformative Arts |
2 |
| A&C 5989 |
Final Project B: Transformative Arts |
2 |
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Total Units |
68 |
