PSYCHOLOGY and the ARTS, Spring, 2016
Faculty:
Mukti Khanna; khannam@evergreen.edu; 867-6752
Terry Setter (program coordinator); tas@evergreen.edu; 867-6615
The arts allow us to access deep components of our selves that are not easily available through other means. They also allow us to gain perspective on our culture and the world around us. Perhaps this is at the heart of why people are so passionate about the arts. Psychology and the Arts is an upper division, team-taught, full time program in which students will study developmental psychology through readings an online study. They will also address it via artistic expression in media-based final projects and activities for presentation within the class and for use as social health care projects beyond the campus. Students will use their knowledge and skills to create intermodal art-centered activities designed to reduce stress and increase resilience and social skills for diverse communities and age groups, including international refugee populations. These art-centered activities will be student designed and might take the form of a podcast, a video piece, a table top game or interactive theatre workshops among many other possibilities. We will make use of cognitive and experiential approaches to learning in order to introduce students to skills and concepts needed to increase their understanding of cognitive, emotional, mental, and physical contexts of developmental psychology. The program will integrate theories with practice to explore diverse resources from personal to global in scale and to help guide students toward creating multimodal arts-based projects that can become part of an international curriculum on social health care to build resilience and promote creativity for people of diverse ages, and to reduce conflict in displaced communities. Students will develop knowledge and skills in media production by taking a series of weekly workshops related to the presentation of their project at the end of the term.
Books and Online Instruction
Child and Development: A Cultural Approach, Jeffrey Arnett
** You MUST buy this particular text from the Evergreen bookstore in order to have access to the online Revel and Virtual Child programs that we will be using. You can’t enroll in them if you are using an external code.
Healing with the Arts, Michael Samuels and Mary Rockwood Lane.
A Still Quiet Place, Amy Saltzman.
Reading and Expressive Writing with Traumatised Children, Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Unpack My Heart with Words,
Marion Baraitser.
Optional Books (not required, but available in our bookstore):
101 Things to do on the Street, Vanessa Rogers
Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens, Christopher Willard and
Amy Saltzman
MEETING TIMES
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10 am-12:30 pm All Program Meeting COM 117 |
9 am-1 pm All program meeting COM 117, Followed by joint Lectures on Art And Anthropocene |
10 am -12:30 pm Com 117 |
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1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Seminar Sem II E3107 Sem II E 3109 |
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1:00 pm-3:00 pm Seminar OR Media Workshop Sem II E 2105 |
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Sem II E3105 |
Web Links to our Wednesday Lecture Series:
The Anthropocene Lectures https://sites.evergreen.edu/anthropocene/
The Artist Lecture Series
blogs.evergreen.edu/artistlectureseries/
Credits will be awarded in child and adolescent developmental psychology, media production, and other applied areas related to the program content.