GENERAL EDUCATION
Each CELA online course is 30 hours
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PY001 Culture & Diversity for Creative Arts Therapists
Social patterns in the United States are undergoing rapid change. Our citizenship has become increasingly diverse as people move here from all over the world. In this course we will explore issues relating to these changing demographics. Through assigned readings, written exercises, exams, and a final project, we will examine such issues as culture shock, adaptation, channeling behavior, and the arts as a bridge as we look at the systems of culture, the experience of our lived differences, and the impact this has on clients, creative arts facilitators/therapists, and healthcare services.
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PY002 Ethics & Creative Arts Facilitating for Therapists
This course is designed to assist students in developing their knowledge base, critical thinking, and ethical decision making skills while defining the scope of practice of creative arts facilitators and creative arts therapists. Each MOD focuses on a particular creative arts area and invites to examine the role of the therapist and the role of the facilitator, their various codes of ethics, how they are similar, and the ways in which they are different. Through assigned readings and online explorations, students will learn and develop the necessary ethical foundation for their practice as creative arts therapists. Students will also be encouraged to explore their own values, beliefs, and personalities and how these areas may help and hinder their work as therapists.
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PY003 Human Growth & Development Across the Lifespan
The focus of student work is the study and exploration of normal human growth and development across the lifespan. Through various theoretical lenses we will examine the milestones, developmental tasks, and life changes that take place from the neonatal stage through end of life. Areas of focus include the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional aspects of development during infancy, childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle years, and later life, and the issues we face during these stages.
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PY004 Psychopathology & the Creative Arts
This course examines mental health, mental illness, the creative arts, and the lives and work of selcted artists. Students will explore various mental health issues and disorders, their signs and symptoms, the DSM and ICD criteria for diagnosing, and approaches and strategies for interventions and treatment planning.
Prerequisite: successful completion of Introduction to Psychology or its equivalent
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PY005 Theories of Counseling & Psychology for Creative Arts Therapy
Theories of counseling and psychology have been developed by practitioners, their methods, insights, and approaches, which they have shared as tools for all clinicians to use in order to best support clients. This course provides an opportunity to learn about different theories in counseling and psychology, their history, and the ways in which they can be used in clinical practice. Throughout the course, students will be asked to consider, reflect upon, and actively define and modify their own personal theory and approach to counseling and intermodal Creative Arts Therapy.
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PY006 Assessments in Creative Arts Therapy
In this course students will explore assessing and Creative Arts Therapy assessments from an intermodal Creative Arts Therapy perspective and their significance in intake, information gathering, ongoing evaluations, goal setting, treatment planning, and interventions. Assessment tools will be examined with special emphasis given to how assessment tools can be adapted for different populations, identifying authentic Creative Arts Therapy assessment tools, and understanding their clinical applications.
Prerequisite: successful completion of Psychopathology or its equivalent
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PY007 Intermodal Creative Arts Therapy: Theory & Practice
This course explores theories of Expressive Therapy, Creative Arts Therapy, Intermodal Creative Arts Therapy, and how the different creative arts are used in healing. Through assigned readings, experiential exercises in multiple creative arts areas, a mid-term, and final, students will examine the intermodal process, techniques, and their application in practice while addressing such issues as what art is and how people communicate through the arts, paying particular attention to the role of the creative arts and creative imagination in healing, health, and wellness.
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PY008 Facilitation Skills 1: Individual Process & Creative Arts Therapy
This course focuses on the individual who has sought out therapy, Creative Arts Therapy, and the therapeutic process and journey. Students will explore through both the traditional psychotherapy lenses and those of the arts, the therapist as artist and the narratives of self.
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PY009 Facilitation Skills 2: Group Process & Creative Arts Therapy
In this course students examine group therapy in the Creative Arts Therapy setting with a focus on the process and application of group Creative Arts Therapy in clinical settings. Areas of focus include methods, skills, the role of the therapist, member roles, and understanding group dynamics.
Prerequisite: successful completion of PY008 Facilitation Skills 1: Individual Process
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PY010 Facilitation Skills 3: Approach, Application, & Process in Intermodal Creative Arts Therapy
ICAT certification requires completion of either a 200-hour or a 500-hour supervised fieldwork experience. The fieldwork must be conducted at a CELA-approved site. All CELA fieldwork supervisors are ICAT certified. Candidates for certification must enroll in PY010 Facilitation Skills 3 in order to complete the supervised fieldwork training requirements.
Prerequisites: successful completion of all General Education coursework requirements, all Arts Area coursework requirements, and required reading (PY011)
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PY011 Required Reading
ICAT certification training has a required reading component. All candidates must enroll in Required Reading (the online course) in order to complete the reading work. Each Required Reading title has an assigned writing component that students must complete—but only for titles that were not read as part of another online CELA course:
- The Fundamentals of Sonic Art & Sound Design, Tony Gibbs
- The Eyes of the Skin, Juhani Pallasmaa
- The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists, Mary Jane Jacob & Michelle Grabner
- Soundings on Cinema, Bert Cardullo
- The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die, Clarissa Pinkola-Estes
- Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith, and what to Eat for Dinner, Ellen Kanner
- Tending the Soul’s Garden: Permaculture as a Way Forward in Difficult Times, Denise Rushing
- A Handful of Quiet, Thich Nhat Hanh
- Peace is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh
Prerequisite: you must be accepted into either the ICAF or the ICAT Certification Program or have permission from the Director to take this course.
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PY999 ICAT: Individualized Focus
In this option CELA will create a class or series of up to two classes that meet CELA standards and program goals. Eligibility for this options is based on a student’s individualized academic and work experience. Should a request and application for this option be approved, students must allow up to 3 Sessions for the course(s) to be created. Contact us for further information.
Prerequisite: departmental approval
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ARTS AREA
Each CELA online course is 30 hours
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AA001 Exploring the Aural 1
Beginning with music fundamentals, (pitch, rhythm, meter, themes, harmony, consonance, dissonance, etc.,) and moving to more advanced concepts of sound and semiotics, students will examine music of various genres, time periods, and cultures through the lenses of western aesthetics and their own subjective responses, building and developing their understanding of what music is, its language, and its purpose.
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AA002 Exploring the Aural 2
Building on concepts learned and explored in Aural 1, this course examines the environment of sound, its purpose, its meaning, and our perceptions. Through assigned readings and listening experiences, students will examine specific sound effects and aspects of music in such terms as musical aesthetics, acoustics, urbanism, sociology, and textual and media expressions, as they deepen and expand their understanding of the language of music within the culture of sound.
Prerequisite: successful completion of Exploring the Aural 1 | This course is not offered every session. Please check with Admissions prior to enrolling.
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AA003 Exploring the Visual 1
In this course students will examine visual arts, their nature, function, and relationship in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and graphics. Through course readings, written assignments, and live artwork visits, students will explore visual perception while considering elements of design including but not limited to composition, medium, line, shape, scale, contrast, movement, texture, color, style..
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AA004 Exploring the Visual 2: Being there in Time
“Being there in Time” (the course title) refers to us, the viewer, and the importance of slowing down our pace to really look at and take in what we see before us; taking the time to be with an artwork. In this course, students will consciously allow themselves the space for a more in-depth look at the artwork of both trained and untrained artists. Arts areas of focus include painting, photography, music, sculpture, and film. Through a contemplative lens we will explore art in the context within which it was created, the individual artist’s life, the history of their artwork, and its place in time both chronologically and within the current moment of our experience of the artwork.
Prerequisite: successful completion of Exploring the Visual 1
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AA005 Exploring the Visual 3: The Art of Crafts
Crafts are art. Exploring the Visual 3: The Art of Crafts is a journey into the world and the art of crafts. We will eamine, using a global lens, various craft areas including glass, metals, wood, textile, music, dance, leatherwork, and more as we explore the role of the craft arts throughout time.
Prerequisite: successful completion of Exploring the Visual 1
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AA007 The Work of the Writer 1
In this creative wrting course students will explore various elements of craft. Through the lens of different genres, we will focus on creative writing craft areas including authentic voice, symbolism, characters and characterization, narrative structure, and point of view. Engaging with assigned creative reading texts, assigned listening/sound experientials, assigned videos, and through their own writing, students will explore how different techniques are used to construct narratives, make meaning, and relate and interrelate with the world around them in such genres as creative nonfiction, poetry, short story, myths & fairy tales, detective fiction, children’s literature, memoir, film, and sound. Students will be given weekly writing assignments and be provided with opportunities to workshop their creative writing output.
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AA009 Detective Fiction
This course examines detective fiction, its history, the Golden Age, and some of its most influential authors. Assigned readings may include such authors as Wilkie Collins, E.C. Bentley, Josephine Tey, Arthur W. Upfield, Gervase Fen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rex Stout, Ngaio Marsh, Arthur Conan Doyle, P.D. James. Students will explore predominant types of detective fiction, main formats, and the characteristics of the genre with special attention to conventions, culture, rule breakers, how authors’ lived experiences influence their work, stylistic components, and the writer’s process.
Prerequisite: successful completion of AA005 Work of the Writer: Elements of Craft 1 | This course is not offered every session. Please check with Admissions prior to enrolling.
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AA015 Exploring the Culinary 1: Foundations
Exploring the Culinary 1 provides students with foundational information and hands-on experience about food, the role of food, and the sharing of meals in our lives. Beginning with nutrition, hygiene, selection, and sources students will examine food from an historical perspective as well as through the lens of various food journalists, food authors, and chefs that includes our relationship with food as well as the role of food in society.
Note: This course is not offered every session. Please check with Admissions prior to enrolling.
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AA016 Exploring the Culinary 2: Changing the World with Food
In this class students will explore the lives and work of several chefs and food specialists whose passion, skill, knowledge, and dedication are impacting our world in significant ways. Chefs include but are not limited to Diana Kennedy, Alice Waters, Jose Andres, Claudia Roden. Through a close look at their lives and work, students will be given opportunities to explore sample menus and prepare dishes as they dive deeply into various philosophies about food and the impact of our food choices on an individual and global basis.
Prrequisite: successful completion of AA008 Exploring the Cluinary 1 | This course is not offered every session. Please check with Admissions prior to enrolling.
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AA999 Arts Area: Individualized Focus
In this option CELA will create a class that meets CELA standards and program goals and has an arts area of focus for which there is no other CELA online course available. Currently, arts areas CELA would consider this option for are: horticulture arts and movement arts. Should a request and application for this option be approved, students must allow approximately 3 Sessions for the course to be created. Contact us for further information.
Prerequisite: departmental approval.
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