Opportunity
Creativity and Change, MTU Crawford College of Art & Design
Arts in Health & Education, MTU Crawford College of Art & Design are currently recruiting for their September course intake across the department. Choose from a number of innovative post-graduate, level 9 courses centred around the power of the arts in supporting wellbeing, personal development and changemaking. All courses take place at the CCAD Grand Parade campus in Cork City.
Arts & Engagement
This new two-year, part-time, 90 credit MA programme combines a number of CCAD’s Special Purpose Awards. Through research, reflection, group and practical work, participants will explore different ways of learning, investigating the transformational power of the arts in personal and societal activation or regulation through a broad scope of contemporary methodologies.
Through elective modules in year one, opportunities will be provided to broaden skill sets through Socially Engaged Theatre, Eco-Arts Practice or Art Therapy. In the second year, opportunity will be given for students to develop their ongoing arts practice informed by, and in relation to, one of two strands of engagement – Health & Wellbeing or Global Citizenship Education.
Duration: Part time over two years (1 day a week + 2-day block monthly for elective module)
Course fee, EU Applicants: €6,000
More info and to apply: https://www.cit.ie/course/CRARAEN9
Contact: Avril.OBrien@mtu.ie
Creativity & Change
A part-time, 20 credit certificate at level 9 exploring creativity and its power to ignite empathy, passion and learning about our interconnected and interdependent world. Supported by Irish Aid, Department of Justice, it is about imagining more humane, just and viable ways to live in the world and to connect with how we think, live, and act in the world. This course explores how we can utilise the arts to live as connected global citizens, becoming part of the changes we want to see. It will be of interest to artists, activists, youth & community educators, volunteers and all those who are interested in collaboration and the transformative power of art.
This programme is offered as an elective within the MA Arts and Engagement. Participants on the course who are not already taking it as an elective within the MA can apply and progress to the MA Arts and Engagement, with 20 credits of the programme already completed.
Duration: One weekend per month from September to May
Course fee: €680 (subsidised by Irish Aid)
More info and to apply: https://www.cit.ie/course/CRACRCH9
Contact: Helen.OKeeffe@mtu.ie
Amplifying Voices Scholarships: There are a number of funded places available for those who have faced barriers to education in Ireland. See more information on the course application page.
Arts & Wellbeing
A new part-time, 20 credit Certificate at level 9. The course will be delivered through lectures and experiential workshops and provide participants with theory and approaches to arts and wellbeing that could be applied in a range of different contexts, making it attractive to teachers, therapists, arts in health practitioners, youth and community workers or artists looking to broaden the scope of their practice.
This programme is offered as an elective within the MA Arts and Engagement. Participants on the course who are not already taking it as an elective within the MA can apply and progress to the MA Arts and Engagement, with 20 credits of the programme already completed.
Duration: One full day once a fortnight for experiential workshops, with one evening once every two weeks dedicated to theoretical lectures, external input and artists’ talks.
Course fee: TBC
More info and to apply: TBC. See https://www.cit.ie/courses/eveningweekendcourseslist/
Contact: Avril.OBrien@mtu.ie
Eco Arts Practice
A 10 credit, level 9 certificate. Through experiential learning, this course provides an opportunity to explore Eco Arts Practice theory and application within a group setting. The aim of the course is to provide participants with approaches to Eco Art Practice that could be applied in a range of different contexts, making it attractive to teachers, therapists, youth and community workers or artists looking to broaden the scope of their practice. Participants will explore nature and the environment within an art context, from ethical use of materials, to eco literacy through to the natural environment as a classroom, a therapeutic space and a material that can be worked with.
This programme is offered as an elective within the MA Arts and Engagement. Participants on the course who are not already taking it as an elective within the MA can apply and progress to the MA Arts and Engagement, with 10 credits of the programme already completed.
Duration: Five three-day weekends and online engagement from October to May
Course fee: €1450
More info and to apply: https://www.cit.ie/course/CRAEAPR9
Contact: ccad.enquiries@mtu.ie until 21 August, then Jessica.Carson@mtu.ie
