2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

Expressive Arts Therapy Minor

Expressive Arts Therapy Minor offers students an opportunity to study the principles of expressive arts therapies: visual art, music, dance, drama, play, poetry, and intermodal arts while considering professional application in a range of settings.

Restriction: This minor is not available to psychology majors specializing in expressive arts therapy. The minor is available to all other psychology and non-psychology majors.

Requirements

I. Required Core (6 Credits):

CPSYC 2623Principles of Expressive Arts Therapy

3

CPSYC 3623Expressive Arts Therapy Studio

3

II. Arts Courses (6 Credits)

Students must complete this 6-credit requirement from two different modalities (e.g. Visual Arts and Music or Music and Dance/Movement or Visual Arts and Dance/Movement)

A. Visual Arts

CPSYC 2423Principles in Art Therapy

3

CPSYC 3421Materials as Metaphors in Art Therapy

3

B. Music

CPSYC 3502Music Therapy: History, Theory, and Application

3

CPSYC 3504Guitar for Therapy and Education

3

C. Dance/Movement

CPSYC 3404Mind-Body Movement

3

CPSYC 3406Dance/Movement Therapy: A Kinesthetic Approach to Healing

3