Module manager: Dr Campbell Edinborough
Email: c.edinborough@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is for students interested in developing skills in applying creative practices in health and wellbeing contexts. Students enrolling on this module are required to demonstrate experience/skills as a creative practitioner (as student or professional), through providing an account of prior relevant experience to the module convenor.
This module is not approved as an Elective
This module provides you with critical and practical understanding of arts practices in health and wellbeing contexts. You will learn how arts practices have responded to and informed public health priorities. You will develop skills for facilitating and evaluating the use of arts-based practices in health and wellbeing contexts.The module allowsyouto draw on experience and knowledge from a variety of fields, including (but not limited to): drama, dance, scenography, music, writing and storytelling.
The module encourages students to engage critically and practically with debates about applied arts practice in the context of health and wellbeing. They will develop an understanding of how cultural policy and arts practice intersect with strategic health priorities at local, national and international levels through lectures and seminar discussions. In the second part of the module, students will learn skills for implementing arts activities in the context of health and wellbeing through taught practicals. They will experiment with different approaches and methods for planning, facilitation and evaluation through self-directed practicals.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Identify, analyse and explain the use of arts-based practices in the context of public health and wellbeing agendas.
2. Locate personal creative practice in relation to broader trends and debates in context of arts, public health and wellbeing agendas.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
3. Critically analyse and interrogate the role of arts and cultural participation as tools for promoting and facilitating health and wellbeing.
4. Plan the delivery and evaluation methodology for using a specific arts-based practice in a health/wellbeing context.
Competence standards
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following competence standards:
1. Apply relevant theories and concepts to the development of arts-based health and wellbeing activities.
2. Demonstrate a critically and theoretically engaged understanding of current debates in the fields arts, health and wellbeing.
3. Plan and evaluate an arts-based health and wellbeing activity/intervention using appropriate methodology and analysis.
4. Reflect on the relationship between personal practice and broader trends and debates in arts, health and wellbeing.
The following syllabus content is indicative:-
The relationship between arts practices and cultural participation in the context of health intervention.-
The relationship between cultural policy and health policy - looking at trends in arts funding, clinical commissioning practice and the needs of different stakeholder groups.-
Debates about the instrumentalization of arts practices in health and wellbeing contexts.-
Data collection and evaluation methods in arts-based health and wellbeing intervention (observation, survey, interview, focus group).
Planning and evaluation methods in arts-based health interventions.-Facilitation methods in arts-based learning and participatory practice. The ethics of participatory arts-practice in health and wellbeing contexts.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 2 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Practicals | 7 | 3 | 21 |
| Lecture | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Seminar | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Private study hours | 270 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 30 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300 | ||
Students will be introduced to theoretical debates about arts and health in the lectures. Lecture material will be discussed and expanded within seminars, with students developing understanding through formative dialogue with peers and lecturers. Following the seminars there will be 4 staff-led practicals, introducing planning, facilitation and evaluation skills, with students developing understanding through formative dialogue with peers and lecturers. Students will then be invited to form groups to plan and develop a peer-to-peer workshop (using arts practices in response to a specific health or wellbeing agenda). Students will receive formative feedback on their practical workshop plan in a group tutorial. Students will work in groups to run their workshops during 3 staff-supervised practical sessions, receiving formative feedback from tutors and peers. After the completion of the student-led workshops, there will be 1 final practical where students will reflect on their learning and be given an opportunity to ask questions about the final assessment, receiving formative feedback on ideas from tutors. Prior to submitting the final assessment, students will be offered a tutorial in which they will receive formative feedback on a plan for their report.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Report | 6000-6500 word workshop and evaluation plan with literature review and critical reflection on practice. | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 9/23/2024
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