Graduate Certificate in Arts Education and Community Engagement
Toronto, Canada
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2025
TUITION FEES
CAD 4,334 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* tuition 2 semesters Canadian students; CAD 15,693 - tuition 2 semesters International students
Introduction
- Program Code: 2843
- School: The Business School
- Credential: Ontario College Graduate Certificate
- Program Type: Graduate Certificate program
- Program Length: 1 year/ 2 semesters
- Location: Progress Campus
Arts Education and Community Engagement is a two-semester Graduate Certificate program designed to ladder students into careers in arts education and community arts.
Students will learn how to design arts educational programming that is pedagogically sound and that meets the needs of diverse communities. Students will apply best practices of community arts work and will be trained to facilitate arts-based social justice initiatives. Students will also learn about a variety of careers in arts education and community development engagement through research, mentorship, and field placements. Graduates of this program will be equipped to manage a professional career in arts and learning and to incorporate community-engaged arts work into their existing creative practice.
By modelling innovative pedagogy, this program teaches students to innovate for themselves. By partnering with leading arts organizations, this program facilitates connections and opportunities within the sector. By emphasizing global citizenship, social justice, and cultural competency, this program helps students locate these concerns at the heart of their creative and educational practice.
Admissions
Curriculum
Semester 1
- AECE-700 Community Arts Practicum 1
- AECE-701 Foundations of Arts Education and Community Engagement
- AECE-702 Learning and Development
- AECE-705 Social Justice: Decolonization, Indigenization, and Anti-Oppression
- AECE-706 Careers in Arts Education and Community Engagement 1
- AECE-707 Self-Directed Learning
- AECE-708 Program Development and Facilitation in Schools and Communities
- AECE-709 Funding and International Policy
Semester 2
- AECE-720 Applied Ethics in Professional Practice
- AECE-721 Community Arts Practicum 2
- AECE-723 Financing, Fundraising and Project Management
- AECE-724 Field Placement
- AECE-726 Careers in Arts Education and Community Engagement 2
- AECE-727 Arts and Wellness
- AECE-799 Storyworks
Program Outcome
Program Highlights
- Learn to plan and implement arts education and community art programming that responds to the needs of a group of learners or community members, in multiple settings, and in collaboration with other artists or organizations.
- Participate in a seven-week field placement where you will directly support the programming of a partnering organization or artist in a supervised community environment.
- Attend classes close to downtown near the creative, cultural heart of Toronto at our Story Arts Centre campus.
- Opportunities to collaborate with the other students in photography, film and television, music, art, theatre and dance programs at the Story Arts Centre.
- Unique opportunity to network, learn and work with industry professionals.
Program Vocational Learning Outcomes
Program Vocational Learning Outcomes describe what graduates of the program have demonstrated they can do with the knowledge and skills they have achieved during their studies. The outcomes are closely tied to the needs of the workplace. Through assessment (e.g., assignments and tests), students verify their ability to reliably perform these outcomes before graduating.
- Create ethical community-engaged programming that incorporates inclusive practices of anti-oppression, decolonization, and indigenization.
- Research and assess best practices of arts education and community arts locally, nationally, and internationally to enhance program development in arts education.
- Analyze and prepare project budgets and grant applications specific to organizations and government bodies supporting arts education and community engagement.
- Plan and implement arts education and community programming that responds to the needs of a group of learners, in multiple settings, and in collaboration with other artists or organizations.
- Develop strategies for career management that support innovation and entrepreneurship in the arts education sector.
- Engage cognitively diverse learners in arts-based programming, with an understanding of psychology and human development.
- Plan and facilitate arts-based programming based on accepted pedagogical principles and best practices, with a working knowledge of the Ontario Ministry of Education curriculum.
Career Opportunities
Future Alumni
Graduates may find additional contract work leading and supporting arts education and community arts/outreach mandates of small, mid- to large-sized arts and cultural organizations (i.e., theatre and dance companies, art galleries, cultural organizations). Graduates will also find both permanent and contract employment in municipal, private, and not-for-profit education (i.e., regional arts programs, and community animation projects). Our graduates will have a competitive advantage in leading hands-on initiatives that engage with socio-culturally diverse and/or marginalized communities in the co-creation of targeted programs.
Graduates will find additional contract work as Workshop Facilitators, Curriculum Consultants, and Guest Artists with diverse public and private organizations (i.e., in the Ontario public school system).
Career Outlook
- Cultural Programmer
- Education Officer
- Community Engagement Officer
- Outreach Officer
- Arts School Coordinator
- Youth Arts Worker
- Interpreter/Animator
- Artistic Educator
Placement Partners
Our placement partners include:
- Arts Starts Neighbourhood Art Centre
- Story Planet
- Canadian Opera Company
- TO Live
- Harbourfront Centre
- Regent Park Focus
- PRIDE Toronto
- VIBE Arts
- Young Peoples Theatre