Arts, Creative Health and Wellbeing

<p>This course provides theoretical understanding and practical skills related to how the arts and aesthetics can be resources for health, resilience, and wellbeing.</p><p>The course is interdisciplinary and research-based, combining historical and theoretical perspectives from the humanities and social sciences with research findings from medicine and the health sciences. The course covers a variety of art forms, including visual art, music, literature, drama, and performance art. It also covers different approaches to health with a focus on the existential dimension of health, and several topics related to the arts and aesthetics, such as meaning-making, beauty, interpretation, presence, and empathy.</p><p>Throughout the course, you will be encouraged to engage in and reflect on your own creative and aesthetic experiences, individually and collectively. Together, we will discuss various ways of studying such experiences, such as quantitative measurement, interviews, philosophical approaches, introspection, and embodied knowledge. You will also learn how creative and aesthetic experiences can be facilitated and mediated in different contexts.</p><p>The course is offered at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, in collaboration with UiT The Arctic University of Norway, within the EUGLOH partnership.</p>