The Indiana Wesleyan University Pre-Art Therapy major is a combination of Art and Psychology courses. Art therapists work in a variety of areas, including clinical and nonclinical settings, with everyone from children to adults, utilizing art as a treatment and diagnosis tool for various types of impairments. Art therapy is used to develop social skills, heal emotional conflicts, and identify the root of certain family and social problems.

Graduates of this program are prepared to pursue graduate studies in art therapy in preparation to apply counseling skills and art skills together as a means of healing and enhancing life, helping patients to creatively work through a number of issues.

Courses

This program is designed for students interested in applying art skills and counseling skills together in a therapy setting. It is a pre-graduate program with a double major.

The undergraduate double major in Pre-Art Therapy includes 30 hours in each area with the courses designated below (27 of 30 hours specified in each major area):

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Art Courses

Students should also take one course from the following:

Additional Art courses recommended:

Psychology Courses*

* Students choose between either PSY-250, PSY-251,or PSY-252 and either PSY-487 or PSY-385.

Students should meet the 30 credit-hour total by taking additional courses from the following:

Faculty

IWU offers one of the very few Pre-Art Therapy undergraduate programs in the entire United States. In this program you will get some of the very best of both our Fine Art program and our Psychology program. This will give you both practical and theoretical foundations for any art therapy grad school in the nation, and for a meaningful practice of your own.