Prof Dip in Art & Health

Art and Design have far-reaching capacities for generating shared language and connecting people communities and environments. The creative arts and industries offer powerful means for conveying ideas and shaping experiences across habituated boundaries.

The programme is delivered under the Creative Futures Academy, a dynamic partnership between NCAD, UCD and IADT.

Through interrogating the relationships between art and health, this pathway promotes modes of meaningful engagement with debates linked to wellbeing, creative aging, the medicalisation of our public language, the complexity and challenges of living well in relation to our environments and assets.

The four 5-credit modules that comprise the Professional Diploma (total 20 credits) are offered sequentially. They conform to the order below, and one module must be completed and passed before embarking on the next module.

The modules are selected from the CFA framework.within the framework, Creative Principles is always the first module of a Professional Diploma; Creative Capstone is always the final module of a Professional Diploma.

Programme Specification and Module Descriptors

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The programme is made up of four modules which are studied on a parttime basis.  Each module is 5 credits, equivalent to 100 hours of student effort.

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Module Descriptors
PGCFAF1010 Creative Principles – Art & Health
PGCFAF1011 Creative Experiences - Art & Health
PGCFAF1012 Creative Immersions – Art & Health
PGCFAF1013 Creative Capstone – Art & Health