Graduate Certificate in Arts and Community Engagement (GC-ARTSCE) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

• Display ability for collaborative & participatory practice in the creative arts within a community engagement model.
• Demonstrate an understanding of and examine current community cultural development practice.
• Work collaboratively & confidently as a community facilitator & cultural animateur across a range of disciplines and creative art practices.
• Communicate with high level of action research, verbal, and written skills.
• Exhibit the skills to interpret, analyse and problem solve.
• Present and implement a developed knowledge of the creative processes within a community-based arts program.

• Understand the concepts of culture, cultural diversity & identity, personal & interpersonal competencies and ethics in a community context.
• Display the skills of Intercultural dialogue and exchange.
• Have a broad global understanding, with high regard for human rights equity and ethics.
• Express an arts & community practice in an accessible form at a community level.
• Ability to strategically broker and network cross-sectional partnerships within a broad based arts and cultural domain.
• Ability to employ creative methodologies & evaluation measures.
• Understanding education methodology as a keep component of CCD.
• Promote social inclusion, build community leadership and foster community cultural renewal.

These skills will enable the student to be academically excellent, knowledgeable across disciplines, leaders in the community, attuned to cultural diversity and active global citizens. Thus fulfilling the Attributes of a graduate according to Learning and Teaching Plan 2007.

Generic skills

On completion of this course the students should demonstrate the ability to:

• work across disciplines, create and organise a range of aesthetic material
• communicate with high level use of verbal and written skill sets
• collaborate and be flexible
• use a range of research tools and methodologies
• lead others in the skills of problem solving
• interpret and analyse with a capacity for critical thinking
• reflect and evaluate to employ innovation methodologies
• work as a leader showing initiative and openness

network, broker and mentor

Graduate attributes

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