MA in Health Arts and SciencesHealth Arts and SciencesStudies within the low-residency MA in Health Arts and Sciences Program are inspired and designed by the students themselves. Students study within an interdisciplinary and holistic framework designed to blur conceptual boundaries and reveal underlying connections, leading to a sophisticated and multidimensional perspectives and practices.
Students in the program incorporate degree guidelines into their studies that include articulating their own health philosophy, applying selected health practices and modalities, self-healing practices, and an understanding of the broader social, ecological, and scientific contexts. Throughout the process, students are encouraged to bring their own rich experiences, skills, and knowledge to their studies and to draw on multiple dimensions for learning—from intuition to the sciences, from reflective solitude to dynamic community service projects, and from reading to direct experience. Students can also integrate specialized professional health training into their plan of study, which is directed toward attainment of health certificates, licensure. or registration.
Students undertake theoretical and practical study in areas such as community and environmental health; women’s, children’s, and men’s health; midwifery; botanical medicine and ethnobotany; nutrition; the arts and healing; body and movement therapies; somatics; integrative health practices and nursing; ecopsychology; multicultural healing systems; and more.
Students shape their studies to help them become become health educators, consultants and counselors, community health education and environmental health specialists, organizers and activists, holistic therapists, integrative health nurses, health researchers, writers, expressive arts facilitators, entrepreneurs, and combinations of these roles. |