Creative and Therapeutic Arts - BA (Hons)

You’ll learn professional, transferrable skills that will create pathways into a wide range of career options. With students going into teaching, health and wellbeing, social work, the creative and charitable sectors, as well as community arts projects. Graduates have successfully gone onto starting their own companies and freelance businesses. 

Postgraduate studies enable students to become qualified and registered Art Psychotherapists through an MA in Art Psychotherapy. Other options include an MA Arts Practice (Arts, Health and Wellbeing). 

You will have access to specialist career support advisors within the University who run employability and entrepreneurship programmes. With ongoing support throughout your degree from the teaching team, you will be able to identify potential career paths based on what you enjoy, learn and experience on the course. You will develop a professional network of contacts through industry placements, Postgraduate Learning Options Day, and Meet the Professionals, two events held during your degree that give you access and advice to future career options.

You’ll benefit from and have access to an extensive range of professional partnerships with more than 50 organisations and settings. These include, hospitals and health boards, schools and education settings including Montessori and Forest Schools, arts organisations and venues, care homes, charities that work with diverse and disadvantaged communities, social care providers, Museums, community gardens and local authorities. Working closely with partners on placements and projects to design, deliver and evaluate creative and therapeutic projects based on the settings and participants needs, mission and values.