GENERAL EDUCATION
Each CELA online course is 30 hours
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FA001 Ethics & Creative Arts Facilitating
This course provides an overview of the ethics and guiding principles for those facilitating creative arts sessions and/or workshops with individuals and groups. Students will examine and review CELA’s Code of Ethics & Guiding Principles, as well as the various codes of ethics from, for example, the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA), the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, the World Federation of Music Therapy, the American Art Therapy Association, and the European Federation of Art Therapy.
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FA002 Group Process & Creative Arts for Facilitators
In this course students examine group dynamics and the group experience in a variety of creative arts settings. Basic principles are reviewed with a focus on the process and application of group creative arts approaches in non-clinical settings. Areas of focus include methods, skills, the role of the facilitator, group participant roles, and understanding group dynamics.
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FA003 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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FA004 Required Reading
ICAF 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.
Why these books? The required reading titles have been chosen from various creative arts areas–music and sound; architecture; the visual arts; film; storytelling; culinary arts; horticulture and permaculture; mindfulness; body-mind-spirit–to provide an opportunity to explore multiple arts areas as an artist while deepening your understanding, knowledge, and insights for each arts area as well as how they fit with you, the artist, and with your work as both artist and facilitator.
Required reading titles:
- 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 the ICAF Certification Program or have permission from the Director to take this course
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FA005 Art Entwined with Life
In this course students will pause and examine the intersection of self and the creative arts. Each week we’ll focus on a specific creative arts area and artist, their life, and their work as we explore the elements and connections of self involved in creating art, experiencing art, and the intrinsic significance of the arts in life.
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FA006 Facilitation Skills 1: The Role of the Creative Arts Facilitator
Facilitation Skills 1 is the first step in laying the foundation for the students’ fieldwork experience (which is done in Facilitation Skills 2) and their professional work as creative arts facilitators. In this class ICAF candidates will examine the multi-layered role of the creative arts facilitator through the lenses of artist, teacher, and communicator.
Prerequisites: (1) successful completion of all General Education courses; (2) successful completion of FA004 Required Reading (titles according to each student’s ISP) with titles read and writing assignments completed and submitted prior to enrolling in this class; (3) successful completion of required Arts Area coursework.
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FA007 Facilitation Skills 2: Putting it all Together
ICAF certification has a 40 hour fieldwork component with 50 hours of individual supervision that are required. Fieldwork is conducted at CELA-approved sites. Students must enroll in FA007 in order to complete their supervised fieldwork.
Prerequisite: successful completion of FA006 Facilitation Skills 1: The Role of the Creative Arts Facilitator
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FA999 Individualized Focus
In this option CELA will create a class that meets CELA standards and program expectations and has an area of focus that is individualized to meet a student’s specific learning goals. An Individualized Focus course can be offered by CELA to a student as a learning option or a student can request an Individualized Focus course for an area of study for which there is no other CELA online course available. Students should typically allow approximately 3 Sessions for the course to be created.
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
In this course, students will focus on art writing. The course will have students engaging with art objects including but not limited to 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional expressions (e.g., painting, photography, architecture, sculpture) within visual arts. We will explore the art writing of various authors as well as the professional art vocabulary. Throughout the course, students will compose their own art writing based on their own visual observations, as well as understand and define art writing methods and terminology, and apply them in their written work. We will explore what makes evocative and engaging art writing as we consider the relationships between text, artist, and medium.
Prerequisite: successful completion of Exploring the Visual 1 | This course is not offered every session. Please check with Admissions prior to enrolling.
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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 class 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.
Prerequisite: successful completion of AA008 Exploring the Culinary 1: Foundations | This course is not offered every session. Please check with Admissions prior to enrolling.
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AA999 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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