Arts Practice (Arts, Health and Wellbeing)

Research and Development of Creative Practice
Research and Development of Creative Practice introduces students to the broad field of arts, health and wellbeing practice, strategic developments, networks and sources of research, evaluation and case studies. Approaches to reflective practice are explored alongside relevant methodologies that students can apply to their own discipline and areas of interest. Students complete a project proposal, which is supported and informed by a literature review and aligned to their development and exploration of arts practice.  

Arts Practice 1 – Review and Develop
Arts Practice 1 – Review and Develop enables students to focus on the development of their self- directed arts practice within the early stages of the course and is particularly helpful for those students who are seeking to reframe their arts practice and situate it within the field of health and wellbeing. The module runs in parallel with Research and Development of Creative Practice enabling the development of students’ practice to be informed by theoretical learning within that module. 

Professional Practice within Arts, Health and Wellbeing
Professional Practice within Arts, Health and Wellbeing focuses on two areas of professional practice: 

• Communication of practice through appropriate and targeted channels for instance, websites, social media, online publications, as well as a range of hardcopy promotional materials. 
• Enabling students to develop a sophisticated understanding of evaluation and reporting in the field, in relation to, for instance, data collection and analysis, quality framework principles and theory of change.

Arts Practice 2 – Progress and Situate
Arts Practice 2 – Progress and Situate enables students to build upon experience gained in Arts Practice 1 and to confidently position their practice within the field of arts, health and wellbeing. Students are required to complete a self-directed arts practice project, negotiating with external agencies as appropriate, which seeks to fulfil the aims and objectives defined in a project proposal. Learning achieved within Professional Practice within Arts, Health and Wellbeing is applied to the development, communication and evaluation of coursework within Arts Practice 2 and is demonstrated through the completion of practice and the submission of a report, which includes use of appropriate evaluation methods and a critical appraisal of the project.

Arts Practice 3 – Refine and Resolve
Arts Practice 3 – Refine and Resolve enables students to build upon an evaluation of work completed during the earlier stages of postgraduate study. During this module students are encouraged to develop their own means for scrutinising, analysing and developing their work. They are encouraged to become sceptical, curious, adventurous, innovative, creative and confident in their approaches to practice and its contexts of production. Students complete a ‘Project Proposal/Statement of Intent’ detailing a programme of study, which will result in a major arts project, which is ambitious in its scope. Students are also required to submit a report, which includes use of appropriate evaluation methods/data analysis, details of research underpinning the project, together with a critical evaluation.