Undergraduate
Degree Programs
The undergraduate program includes theoretical, practicum, and internship components to foster competent creative arts therapists.
Program Highlights
- Internationally recognized faculty in music therapy, dance/movement therapy, and expressive arts therapy.
- A well-matched curriculum to meet the requirements for clinical training.
- Wide range of top-quality internships and job placements in various areas.
- Various workshops provided for certification examinations, development of artistic skills, and understanding of clinical theories.
Skills and competencies obtained
- Learn about theoretical foundations, such as human development, psychology, and behavior.
- Gain hands-on experience through fieldwork and internship with clients under supervision.
- Understand and experience how creative arts enhance healing.
Curriculum
Completion of the bachelor’s degree requires a minimum of 110 credit hours of course work combined with general education (21~43 credit hours) and major education (70~93 credit hours) offered by the department of creative arts psychotherapy.
GENERAL EDUCATION (21~43 CREDIT HOURS)
HUMANITY (Check to see if this is the right word)
- Human and Community* (3)
- Community Service (3)
- Career Coaching (6) (1 credit hour per semesters)
BASICS
- Communication skills* (3)
- Foreign Languages (6)
- Software* (3)
ELECTIVES (0~6)
CREATIVE ARTS THERAPY (80~93 CREDIT HOURS)
- REQUIRED COURSES – BASICS (6)
- REQUIRED COURSES – ADVANCED (24)
- ELECTIVE COURSES (63)
* Indicates required cours. / Number in parenthesis ( ) denotes credit hours.
Course Descriptions – Bachelor of Science in Creative Arts Psychotherapy
[1st Grade] - 1st Semester
| Course | Description |
|---|---|
| Introduction to Music Therapy | This course introduces students the theories, principles and applications of music therapy with reference points in many areas of psychology, and psychology of music and therapy. |
| Developmental Psychology | This course introduces developmental psychology. Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire life span. In this course, students will learn both typical development and abnormal development. |
| Expressive Arts Therapies & Techniques | This course provides essential explorations and experiences of expressive arts materials in clinical practice. |
| Introduction to Dance/Movement Therapy | This course introduces students the theories, principles, and application of dance/movement therapy with references points in many areas of psychology, and psychology of dance and human movement. |
[1st Grade] - 2nd Semester
| Course | Description |
|---|---|
| Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapies | This course is to study the history of expressive arts therapies through Fine Art from Ancient Age to these days with the view of the history of Fine Art. Students will investigate how the expressions and their meanings have been changed according to the sociocultural backgrounds. |
| Clinical ImprovisationⅠ-Guitar | This course provides essential guitar techniques for improvisations in music therapy sessions. |
| Understanding of Arts | This course is devoted to acquiring basic knowledge of music, musical terminology and comprehensive understanding of art. |
| Introduction to Psychology | This course introduces the major psychological concepts and principles. |
[2nd Grade] - 1st Semester
| Course | Description |
|---|---|
| Music Therapy Assessment & Evaluation | This course provides assessment and evaluation skills using music and musical activities in music therapy. |
| Expressive Arts Therapies for Children with Special Needs | This course deals with art class for typically developing children, and then expressive arts therapies with children, including principles and processes in working with various population and possible approaches in both typically and atypically developing children. |
| Music Therapy for Children with Special Needs | This course provides exposure to various approaches of music education in typically developing children, and then introduces therapeutic approaches for atypically developing children. |
| Expressive Arts Therapies For Children | This course provides intensive explorations techniques for improvisations in expressive arts therapies sessions. |
[2nd Grade] - 2nd Semester
| Course | Description |
|---|---|
| Music Therapy Techniques | This course introduces various models and methods in music therapy in order to enhance students’ ability to apply effective clinical skills depending on the client’s needs. |
| Expressive Arts Therapies for Adults & Elderly | This course deals with applications of expressive arts therapies for adults and the elderly. |
| Music Therapy for Adults & Elderly | This course deals with applications of music therapy for adults and the elderly. |
| Clinical ImprovisationⅡ-Keyboard | This course provides essential keyboard techniques for improvisations in music therapy sessions. |
[3rd Grade] - 1st Semester
| Course | Description |
|---|---|
| Creative Arts Therapy Clinical Practice & Supervision (1) | Practical experience of creative arts therapy gained through a minimum of 16-week clinical practice with weekly supervision. Students are to experience with various populations such as children, adults and elderly. |
| Group Creative Arts Therapy (1) | The purpose of this course is to promote students’ insights on themselves and their relationships with others through creative arts therapy experiences in group settings. |
| Counseling Psychology | This course introduces students theories and practices of counselling in order to promote students’ abilities of verbal applications. |
| Advanced Clinical Improvisation | This course provides practical techniques in clinical improvisations in music therapy. |
[3rd Grade] - 2nd Semester
| Course | Description |
|---|---|
| Creative Arts Therapy Clinical Practice & Supervision (2) | Practical experience of creative arts therapy gained through a minimum of 16 week clinical practice with weekly supervision. Students are to experience with various populations such as children, adults and elderly. |
| Group Creative Arts Therapy (2) | The purpose of this course is to promote students’ insights on themselves and their relationships with others through creative arts therapy experiences in group settings. |
| Dance/Movement Therapy Techniques | This course introduces various models and methods in Dance/Movement Therapy in order to enhance students’ ability to apply effective clinical skills depending on the client’s needs. |
| Expressive Arts Therapies Case Study | This course deals with essential part of arts therapy in clinical practice by involving students to present their own case in their clinical placement in order to enhance their understanding and insights in dealing with clinical phenomena and issues. This includes background of institution and patient, referral, assessment, treatment plan, goals and objectives, treatment, evaluation and ending in expressive arts therapies. |
[4th Grade] - 1st Semester
| Course | Description |
|---|---|
| Understanding of Children with Special Needs | This course focuses on students’ comprehensive understanding of children with developmental disabilities and professional Interventions to support their growth. |
| Music Therapy Field Internship & Supervision (1) | This is the most advanced level of clinical training. Clinical Placement Internship (1), (2) can be only carried out if students completed Clinical Practice and Supervision (1), (2). Internship requires no less than 1000 hours. |
| Expressive Arts Therapies Internship & Supervision (1) | This is the most advanced level of clinical training. Clinical Placement Internship (1), (2) can be only carried out if students completed Clinical Practice and Supervision (1), (2). Internship requires no less than 1000 hours. |
[4th Grade] - 2nd Semester
| Course | Description |
|---|---|
| Music Therapy Field Internship & Supervision (2) | This is the most advanced level of clinical training. Clinical Placement Internship (1), (2) can be only carried out if students completed Clinical Practice and Supervision (1), (2). Internship requires no less than 1000 hours. |
| Expressive Arts Therapies Internship & Supervision (2) | This is the most advanced level of clinical training. Clinical Placement Internship (1), (2) can be only carried out if students completed Clinical Practice and Supervision (1), (2). Internship requires no less than 1000 hours. |
| Education & Counseling for Parents of Children with Special Needs | This course introduces the theories and principles of parent education and counseling in order to enhance students’ ability to apply effective clinical skills. In this course will learn parents’ role in the development of healthy growth for children based on the assumption that psychological disorders and problems are caused by parent incompatibility. |
| Movement Observation & Assessment | This course focuses on one of the core principles of Laban Movement Analysis which is consist of Body, Effort, Space, and Shape. This class will prepare the student to develop skills for observing, documenting, assessing human movement behaviors. |