Community Art

Description

This module will provide students with an introduction to community, arts and media from a community education perspective. Using local and international examples, it will explore the impact arts and media have on communities and appreciate the importance of creative platforms to enhance feelings of well-being and human flourishing.   

It will consider how arts and media might support communities and individuals to articulate their own concerns and priorities. The module will examine the spaces that are used and the environments that are created to empower communities to have a voice and tell their story through creative means. 

This will encourage discussion around alternative methods of learning in the field of community education practice.

At the end of this module the student will be able to:

  • Discuss arts and media as alternative methods of learning in the field of community education practice.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of defining characteristics associated with community, arts and media from a community education perspective.
  • Articulate a new found knowledge in relation to the impact of arts and media has on wellbeing and human flourishing within communities.
  • Analyse and evaluate issue issues within communities that arts and media challenge to promote empowerment.
  • Recognise and reflect on the spaces that arts and media use as a means to creating distinctive learning environments.

This is an SCQF Level 8 module and upon successful completion, participants will be awarded 20 credits.

 

Delivery 

This module will be delivered on Lanarkshire campus, planned for Tuesday afternoons 1.30pm to 4.30pm.

 

Course presenter(s)

This module will be delivered by Dr Alan Cusack and Jamie Hopkin.

 

Funding

This course may be available on a fully funded basis to some delegates.  Further details, including regarding eligibility, are available under Funding Support.

If you have any questions, please contact us at cpd@uws.ac.uk 

 

NOTE: This is a university module and upon approval of your application, you will be invited to register and then supported to complete enrolment. To enrol on the university system, the first step involves security set-up using the Microsoft Authenticator app; you will need to ensure that you have a compatible smartphone.

Further enrolment information is available at the Student Information Portal.

To access this module via the CPD route, individuals should be ordinarily resident in Scotland.