Quick Facts
51
Credit
Hours
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To Graduate in Contemplative Art Therapy
2
Transformative
Capstone
Experiences
Including a Choice between Internship and Field Placement
Including a Choice between Internship and Field Placement
8
Unique
Milestone
Courses
In Studio Art, Art Therapy, and Psychology
In Studio Art, Art Therapy, and Psychology
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Courses You Could Take
in Art Therapy
Learn the practice and theory of art therapy at an art therapy school that puts mindfulness at the core of its curriculum. Engaging course work in studio art, art therapy, and contemplative psychology offers a visionary approach to using art as a tool for healing. As you earn your undergraduate degree in contemplative art therapy, you will master studio techniques, explore Buddhist psychology, collaborate with motivated peers, and engage in fieldwork in the surrounding community. Courses within the major in art therapy include:
THE NAROPA DIFFERENCE
If you’ve been searching for art therapy schools with curriculums that address heart and spirit along with mind, you’ve found your home. Naropa's unique Bachelor of Arts in Art Therapy offers a vibrant arts community, experiential learning, and a deeply introspective undergraduate curriculum aimed at healing you, your future clients, and the world.
Community Engagement
The undergraduate major in art therapy offers a choice of two culminating, senior-year experiences: the Field Placement or the Internship. Both opportunities provide socially relevant learning in art therapy and integrate community-oriented skills such as grassroots organizing, grant writing, and policy research.
For seniors moving on to careers as art therapists or to graduate art therapy schools, the Field Placement and Internship are powerful, collaborative opportunities to synthesize their contemplative art therapy education.
Forty-three percent of art therapy bachelor's degree students are hired following completion of a senior internship.
Contemplative Education
The Naropa Bachelor of Arts in Art Therapy is not a typical art therapy program, and Naropa is not your typical school. As the West’s founding school for contemplative education, Naropa integrates mind, body, and soul in a holistic education aimed at transforming students, communities, and the world.
The undergraduate major in art therapy instills mindfulness as a valuable tool for approaching art, relationships, and self-knowledge through courses like Buddhist Psychology: Mindfulness Meditation and Contemplative Ceramics: Form and Human Contact. Students cultivate their inner lives to prepare for meaningful lives beyond art therapy school.
Mentorship Opportunities
As one of the country’s few undergraduate art therapy programs paired with a graduate art therapy program, the Bachelor of Arts in Art Therapy is uniquely positioned to provide mentorship opportunities. A graduate mentor will guide you through your major in contemplative art therapy, serving as sounding board, coach, and support.
Naropa's art therapy mentorship program, unique among art therapy schools, prepares undergraduates to excel in the graduate art therapy program, to pursue master's degrees in studio art or mental health, or to step into meaningful careers as art instructors, art coaches, or mental health workers.
Students Transformed
Graduate School Readiness
Graduate School Readiness
Receive mindful mentorship that gives you a head start in graduate school.
Receive mindful mentorship that gives you a head start in graduate school.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness
Learn to look inward as a first step in reaching out to help others.
Learn to look inward as a first step in reaching out to help others.
Relational Skills
Relational Skills
Refine communication skills through hands-on learning in diverse settings.
Refine communication skills through hands-on learning in diverse settings.
Self-Awareness as an Artist
Self-Awareness as an Artist
Cultivate confidence and dignity in your work as artist and art therapist.
Cultivate confidence and dignity in your work as artist and art therapist.
Foundation in Studio Art Therapy
Foundation in Studio Art Therapy
Follow in the footsteps of art therapy pioneers.
Follow in the footsteps of art therapy pioneers.
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