Expressive Arts Therapy Minor

Program Requirements

Students are required to take a minimum of 18 credits as follows:

Required Courses

• AET 100 - Foundations of Creative Therapies (Cr: 3)
• AET 200 - Methods and Materials in Arts and Expressive Therapy (Cr: 3)

Arts Skills Courses

Choose six credits (Must be from a minimum of two different prefixes)

DAN any 1 cr. course taken three times

• ART 105 - Drawing and Composition I (Cr: 3)
• ART 121 - Ceramics I (Cr: 3)
• ART 201 - Painting I (Cr: 3)
• ART 255 - Creative Bookmaking (Cr: 3)
• DAN 235 - Mind and Body Awareness (Cr: 3)
• DAN 240 - Global Dance (Cr: 3)
• DRA 200 - Acting Techniques I (Cr: 3)
• DRA 220 - Introduction to Theater Production (Cr: 3)
• DRA 102 - Improvisational Comedy (Cr: 3)
• PHT 116 - Introduction to Photographic Imaging (Cr: 3)
• ENG 108 - Introduction to Creative Writing (Cr: 3)
• ENG 208 - Writing Poetry I (Cr: 3)
• ENG 209 - Writing Short Fiction I (Cr: 3)
• ENG 228 - Writing the Novel I (Cr: 3)
• ENG 229 - Playwriting and Screenwriting I (Cr: 3)
• MUS 106 - Private Music Instruction (Cr: 0.5 - 3) Taken 3 times (Cr: 3)
• MUS 120 - Guitar I (Cr: 3)
• MUS 160 - Performance Workshop (Cr: 3)
• MUS 216 - Songwriting I (Cr: 3)

Expressive Arts Electives

Select two coures from the following list:

• AET 201 - Populations, Assessment, and Intervention (Cr: 3)
• AET 205 - Music Therapy Foundations (Cr: 3)
• AET 210 - Therapeutic Writing (Cr: 3)
• AET 215 - Dance/Movement Therapy Foundations (Cr: 3)
• AET 225 - Jung and Art Therapy (Cr: 3)
• AET 228 - Global Percussion & Therapeutic Drumming Techniques (Cr: 3)
• AET 300 - Counseling Practices in the Expressive Therapies (Cr: 3)
• AET 305 - Cross Cultural Practices of Art Therapy (Cr: 3)
• AET 306 - Drama Therapy and Psychodrama (Cr: 3)