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302029 (v.2) Practicum and Reflection 521


 

Area:

Centre for Aboriginal Studies

Credits:

50.0

Contact Hours:

6.0

Individual Study:

1 x 6 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

302026 (v.2) Forms of Healing Arts 511 or any previous version
AND
302027 (v.2) Healing Art Processes 512 or any previous version

Syllabus:

In consultation with an agreed supervisor, development of a learning contract for an experiential healing art project. Various Indigenous settings in hospitals, prisons, aged care homes, child/youth care centres and women's/men's refuges will be available. Preparation of a work folio with appropriate theoretical support. Students facilitate healing art activities promoting and encouraging participants to express/communicate issues of concern using their own symbolic expression and cultural imagery. Students will keep a reflective journal to monitor and express their own as well as their clients' healing art journeys.
 

Unit Outcomes:

On successful completion of this unit, students will have- Facilitated healing art activities as a therapeutic creative process for clients in a specific context. Identified the needs and interests of the client/s in the practicum context. Compiled a reflective journal mapping the healing arts process over the duration of the practicum.

Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases.

Unit References:

Hazlehurst, K.M. (1996), A healing place. Central Queensland University Press.

Unit Texts:

No prescribed texts.
 

Unit Assessment Breakdown:

Practical evaluation 50%, Practical journal 50%. This is by grade/mark assessment.

Field of Education:

 90311 Indigenous Studies

HECS Band (if applicable):

1  

Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information:

 Not Online  

Result Type:

 Grade/Mark


Availability

Availability Information has not been provided by the respective School or Area. Prospective students should contact the School or Area listed above for further information.

 
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