BA (Hons) Therapeutic Cultures
This innovative, multidisciplinary degree is a new programme from the Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) that will promote your understanding of the emergence and current functioning of therapeutic cultures.
Stuart Colley
3 years full-time or 6 years part-time.
BL93
BBC or equivalent; see entrance requirements for alternative qualifications.
Certification by means of Access, BTEC, College Foundation Certificate, AS- and A-level is accepted, in a wide range of subject areas. Typical GCE A-level offer is BBC. See further information about entrance requirements.
In addition to the academic skills you will develop throughout the programme (for example skills in writing and communication, organisation and problem solving, and information gathering and retrieval), you will also enhance 'soft skills' such as imagination, creativity, the willingness to take risks, and - where necessary - the ability to engage in constructive, informed and critical challenges to orthodoxy.
Please see Undergraduate tuition fees.
PACE
This degree has been designed to meet the learning needs and aspirations of, broadly speaking, two kinds of students. Some of you will want to undertake a degree focusing on counselling and psychotherapy practices and also the social and cultural contexts of their production in late modernity; while others of you, at a later stage of your educational careers, may want to undertake formal clinical training as counsellors and/or psychotherapists.
What you Study
The programme has several aims: to promote your knowledge and understanding of contemporary therapeutic cultures, principally in Britain; to inform this knowledge of clinical practices by use of the kinds of enquiry made possible by sociology, anthropology and cultural studies; to provide a multidisciplinary focus of study; to develop 'soft skills' such as imagination, creativity, risk-taking, and a willingness to challenge orthodoxy.
Different counselling/therapy orientations form part of the curriculum in Years 1, 2 and 3, as does the emphasis on locating contemporary therapeutic practices in the context of their socio-historical production. You will also study the theory and practice of art psychotherapy in Years 1 and 2, and, if you wish, undertake the Foundation in Art Psychotherapy as an optional course in Year 3. How the notion of 'the individual' has emerged and is currently regulated is studied in Year 1, as well as the construction of the gendered body. The state regulation of the psychological therapies and 'pathologies' of the modern self are addressed in Year 2. In Year 3 you cover cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), how the relocations of people in new social and political settings have given rise to novel forms of cultural identity, and, if you wish, Freud's legacy.
The multidisciplinary focus of the programme will not only support the development of your understanding and knowledge of professional therapeutic practice(s), as well as your cognitive, communication, writing and transferable skills; PACE is confident that when you achieve the degree, you will be equipped with the broad range of complex attributes increasingly required by employers, irrespective of whether you decide to proceed to clinical training.
Application enquiries
Please see how to apply for information on applying to this programme.