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URBAN STUDIES CORE (21 credits)URBN 501 (3) Urban Issues in a Global Context
URBN 575 (3) Applied Research & Program Evaluation
URBN 580 (3) Urban Models for Social Transformation
URBN 510 (3) Christ and the City
URBN 520 (3) Leadership Development
URBN 540 (3) Race & Ethnic Relations
ARTS 540 (3) Community Cultural Contexts*
URBN 690 (3) Grad. Research Project/Thesis
URBN 535 (1) Community-based Programming for Youth Development
URBN 520 (1) Cross-Cultural Skills for Urban Srvc.
URBN 5xx (1) Resource Development
URBN 630 (1) Special Topics
URBN 510 (1) Personal Strategic Planning
URBN 515 (1) Faith and the Professions
*Travel course required for ARTS.
Students in other concentrations may substitute this for URBN 540.
ARTS 525 (2) Foundations for Arts in Transformation
ARTS 530 (1) Arts in Community & Economic Development
ARTS 535 (1) Arts in Social Services
ARTS 545 (1) Arts, Creativity & Human Development
ARTS 550 (1) Arts and Spiritual Development
ARTS 555 (1) Arts in Education
ARTS 565 (1) Arts in Healing
ARTS 575 (1) Arts in Communication & Social Commentary
ARTS 695 (1.5) Leadership Practicum I
Any 3-credit MA in Urban Studies course (or approved transfer credit).
Arts in Transformation Course Descriptions
ARTS 525FOUNDATIONS FOR ARTS AND TRANSFORMATION
Credit: 1
This course presents an in-depth study of the arts and the transformational roles they hae played throughout history. Artist typology will be explored along with ajor change models and arts-based communication paradigms. These set the stage for the fields of arts-based community development, cultural community development, development communication, and arts-based community mission. Students will compare and contrast the diffusion models of entertainment media and development communication with participatory methods of arts-based community development models. Practical applications of theory and theology will be considered for community involvement, health education, public art and public arts policy, standards for community arts programs, and program evaluation. Planning project required.
ARTS 530ARTS IN COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Credit: 1
Arts in Community and Economic Development applies the theories of An Introduction to Arts and Transformation to practical problems arising from poverty and injustice in local communities. An emphasis will be placed on the process for becoming a catalyst within the community and the skills of community assessment and community program planning. Working models of community and economic development will be researched and critiqued.
ARTS 535ARTS IN SOCIAL SERVICE
Credit: 2
Arts in Social Services is a course that equips the student to work within formal structures in international, national, state and local service systems in the delivery of arts-based programs. Specific attention will be given to programming, legal requirements, finding and assessment. Cases and examples will be from overseas mission agencies, international agencies, the US social service system, and local city government and community groups. Topics of arts-based programming will include life skills training, after-school programs, dealing with homelessness, refugees, aging and HIV/AIDS. Students will write a program to be implemented in their Leadership Practicum.
ARTS 545ARTS AND CREATIVITY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Credit: 1
This course is designed to introduce students to the nature of art as a creative endeavor from a theological perspective and its relationship to human development.
ARTS 550ARTS AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Credit: 1
Students develop practical teaching strategies for using the arts in helping children and youth in small and large classroom settings to awaken and develop a spiritual awareness in themselves and an understanding of their relationship to others. This is an interactive and creative class in which students develop and engage in various artistic projects and explore their own spirituality while learning techniques for teaching diverse youth. Students will also learn and develop practical strategies for using the arts in teaching spiritual concepts to children and youth using integrative arts and experiential learning styles. Based on a working model of teaching through music, drama, visual arts, games, and dance, participants will learn by doing and by creating their own integrative and creative productions and lessons aimed at involving children and youth in the exploration of character and spiritual development.
ARTS 555ARTS IN EDUCATION
Credit: 1
Students develop practical pedagogical strategies for using the arts in teaching especially the humanities and sciences, with principles that apply to all academic subjects. This is an interactive and creative class in which students develop and engage in various arts-based projects for application with curriculum and course development skills for diverse youth. Based on a working model of teaching through music, drama, visual arts, games, and dance, participants will learn by doing and by creating their own integrative and creative lessons aimed at enhancing student learning.
ARTS 565ARTS IN HEALING
Credit: 1
This intensive course introduces the student to the field of creative arts therapy and methods employed in therapeutic interventions. A focus will be given to the specific nature of the arts in healing brokenness, physical illness and emotional suffering among the poor and in crisis situations. Specific strategies for arts as healing will presented. Project required
ARTS 575ARTS IN COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL COMMENTARY
Credit: 1
Arts in Communication and Social Commentary This course looks at the prophetic role of the arts in society. The arts are a vehicle for calling an unjust world into justice and righteousness. It then applies the arts: music, dance, theater, and art, as vehicles of communication by urban prophets throughout history who have used them as persuasive commentary on current urban problems, and calls to a better and just world. Further, it looks at the lives of prophetic artists and explores the unique experiences that thrust them into an urban world with a prophetic message of redemption. The course provides opportunities for critical thinking skills in evaluating art as used in holistic and faith-based community development. Processes for communication, social commentary and political and conflict discourse are considered.
ARTS ???ARTS AND EDUCATION 2
Credit: 1
This is an interactive and creative class in which students develop and engage in various arts-based projects for application with curriculum and course development skills for diverse youth. Students will learn by doing through creating their own integrative and creative lessons aimed at enhancing student learning. Students will deliver their lesson plans in an interactive “teachback” format.
ARTS ???CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS FOR ART-MAKING
Credit: 3
Cultural and Community Contexts for Art-Making is an intensive overseas travel residency course introduces the student to the meaning and function of artistic expressions within the communities of the host country. Through on-line readings and portfolio development and on-site interaction in the host country, participants will dialogue and participate with artists and their music, dance, poetry and art. Participants will gain first hand knowledge of the local cultural world-view, explore models of arts-based mission and service among the poor, the role of the arts in worship, and the relationship between culture, art and transformation. Specific attention will be given to cross-cultural skills and the dynamic of culture in community development. Portfolio and paper required.
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Campolo College of Graduate and Professional Studies
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