Program Overview

Community-Engaged Practices in Design and the Arts Certificate

Program Description

The Community-Engaged Practices in Design and the Arts certificate program is designed to equip students with skills in collaboration, project design, facilitation, and project management. This program connects students to community and industry engagement opportunities, enabling them to use their creative capacities to advance culture, strengthen democracy, and address pressing challenges.

At a Glance

• College/School: Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
• Location: Tempe

Curriculum

The curriculum for the Community-Engaged Practices in Design and the Arts certificate includes:

• HDA 210: Creativity and Innovation in Design and the Arts (3 credit hours, minimum grade C)
• HDA 410: Design and the Arts Corps Seminar (3 credit hours, minimum grade C)
• Upper Division Community Engagement (3 credit hours, minimum grade C)
  • Examples of courses:
    • ARS 441: Public Art
    • ART 442: Art and Community
    • DCE 494 / HDA 494 / THP 494: Topic - The Atlas of Creative Tools
    • DSC 494: Topic - Indigenous Architecture, Planning and Construction
    • EDS 301: Sustainable Community Design and Practices (SUST)
    • HDA 310: Socially Engaged Practice
    • HDA 394: Topic - Design & Arts Corps
    • HDA 394: Topic - Disrupt, Create, Sustain
    • HDA 494: Topic - Civ Prac: Artists&Designers Collaborating/Comm
    • HDA 494: Topic - Civic Body: Art and Public Health
    • HDA 494: Topic - Civic Practice:Arts/Design & Public Partnerships
    • HDA 494: Topic - Creative Facilitation: Collaboration, Imagination
    • HDA 494: Topic - Creative Project Management
    • HDA 494: Topic - Design & Arts Corps
    • HUL 494: Special Topics
• Upper Division Community Engagement Electives (6 credit hours, minimum grade C)
  • Examples of courses:
    • AME 310: Media Literacies and Composition
    • AME 340: Compositional and Computational Principles for Media Arts
    • AME 411: Advanced Interactive Sound
    • AME 444: Media Installations
    • AME 436: Animating Virtual Worlds
    • ARS 441: Public Art
    • ART 442: Art and Community
    • ART 443: Performance Art: Actions, Gestures, Journeys
    • DCE 303: The Body Condition(ed) (SOBE)
    • DCE 333: Hip Hop III
    • DCE 360: Creative Practices V
    • DCE 404: Dance and Ethics (CIVI)
    • DCE 405: Writing the Creating Body (HUAD)
    • MDC 311: Composing and Performing for Hybrid Ensembles
    • MHL 342: Music History II (HUAD)
    • MHL 344: Music in World Cultures (GCSI)
    • MUP 489: Topic - Gamelan
    • MUP 489: Topic - Latin Marimba
    • MUS 362: Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture (HUAD)
    • NLM 410: Social Entrepreneurship
    • NLM 430: Managing Nonprofit Organizations
    • NLM 451: Grant Writing
    • PAF 410: Building Leadership Skills (SOBE)
    • PAF 420: Managing Across Boundaries
    • TDM 448: Heritage and Cultural Tourism
    • THP 451: Student Production Board II
    • THP 482: Theatre for Social Change (CIVI)
    • THP 483: Acting: Viewpoints and Composition

Enrollment Requirements

The certificate program is open to undergraduate students of any major. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts program in the arts must complete three additional credit hours of coursework specific to the certificate program that does not also count toward their major.

Career Opportunities

This certificate program enables students to develop distinct pathways that also earn microcredentials across a wide variety of competencies, including ethical communication, group facilitation, project structuring and evaluation, project management, ethics, and asset-based community cultural development. These competencies prepare graduates for excellence in many occupations.

Contact Information

For more information, please contact the Dean, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, located in CDS 101.