Introduction to Art Therapy (CSHD-0175)

Spring 2025 · CSHD 0175 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Overview of the history, theory and practice of art therapy from an intersectional perspective. Understand the integration of the creative and therapeutic processes. Explore the complexity of human life and behavior within a historical, cultural, social, and personal context. Analyze case studies of diverse populations and engage in doing art to examine the process of how tools, media, and expression impact healing, resilience, self-awareness, identity, social justice, and transformation. Use drawing materials, papers, paints, collage materials, assemblages, 3D materials, fibers, carving, and casting and their applications to real life, including specific clinical and community settings. Study the dimensions of form, shape, color and texture of various materials that stimulate, structure, and organize artistic expression. Integrate personal practice and experience with assigned readings, discussions, and hands-on activities, fostering self-awareness and an understanding of others and the surrounding world.

Course codes: CSHD-0175, CSHD 0175, CSHD0175, CSHD-175, CSHD 175, CSHD175

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