Foundation Studies Program (Standard) - Arts (X0F:1) (0100808) + Bachelor of Arts - Creative Arts and Health (A3A) (001694A)

Program Description Foundation Studies Program (Standard) - Arts (X0F:1) (0100808): The Foundation Studies program is a direct academic pathway to first-year undergraduate degree study, or an equivalent. The program acts as a bridging course for international students who wish to study a university undergraduate degree course but who don’t yet meet academic requirements and/or have the English language skills for tertiary study. To successfully complete the program, students must achieve a 50% pass in all units, including English. Upon successful completion of the course, graduates can enter one of the University of Tasmania’s undergraduate degree courses. Bachelor of Arts - Creative Arts and Health (A3A) (001694A): The Bachelor of Arts is the ultimate, flexible university degree. With over twenty named majors, students can select subjects to build their knowledge, and electives to enhance their skills. Students will learn to influence cultural and social change, and they will gain the knowledge and creativity to envision better futures. Students will take on the world’s cultural, environmental, and humanitarian challenges from multiple perspectives and gain the confidence to make a positive difference. In first year, students will have the opportunity to visit Country with an Aboriginal Elder or knowledge holder as part of the University of Tasmania's curriculum's reflection of the value and place of Indigenous knowledges and perspectives. The University of Tasmania also offers opportunities to study across different disciplines and add a major from another course offering. The Bachelor of Arts combines with a wide range of courses which allow students to deepen their knowledge and expertise within two separate study areas. It's also students’ chance to pursue a career and follow their passion at the same time. The Bachelor of Arts will equip students with a range of specialised and transferable skills that are highly sought after by employers: creative thinking, respect for multiple perspectives, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment. Engagement with music, visual arts, dance and other creative art forms can change people’s lives, bringing joy, restoring self-confidence and improving mental and physical wellbeing. In this major, students can learn about global developments in this emerging interdisciplinary field and develop an understanding of how and why the arts can help to relieve suffering, improve wellbeing, and foster resilience. They will have opportunities to explore their own artistic creativity and challenge themselves to apply their knowledge and skills through finding arts-based solutions to the health and wellbeing challenges of the 21st century. In first year students will learn the fundamentals of how interactions with different forms of the creative arts are processed by the brain, evaluate innovative arts-based programs that have been developed to improve function and wellbeing and reflect on their own experience of the creative process. In the second year they will continue to explore their creativity and learn visual and digital skills for arts-based interventions along with a range of strategies to promote emotional wellbeing. During third year students will develop further contextual knowledge and skills for working with diverse groups of people of all ages and deepen their understanding of how engagement with the arts affects the brain and body. Students will also learn research specific applications of the arts to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, while developing their own proposal for trialling a concept and designing an arts project for a specific group or need. Studying this innovative major in Tasmania will give students access to leading researchers in creative arts practices, dementia, sociology and health, within a state that leads the world in alternative responses to ageing. By completing this major students are eligible to receive membership of the peak creative arts therapy association ANZACATA. Graduates in this field find employment in diverse settings including arts organisations, hospitals, aged care facilities, rehabilitation centres, and prisons.