Community-Engaged Practices in Design and the Arts (Graduate Certificate)
Art, Community Cultural Development, Community Engagement, Public Practice, Socially Engaged Practice, creative, design
Are you passionate about partnering with the community to leverage your skills, creativity and knowledge to make the world a better place? Add value to your degree by gaining advanced hands-on skills in collaboration, project design, facilitation and project management.
The certificate program in community-engaged practices in design and the arts places designers, artists, scholars and educators in public life and prepares students to use their creative capacities to advance culture, strengthen democracy and imaginatively address today's most pressing challenges.
This certificate is an integrated, community-engaged design and arts program that serves all Herberger Institute students as well as the larger ASU community. Participants engage in direct and ethical partnership and collaboration with communities and civic and industry partners to learn and practice programming that activates partner goals and facilitates experiential learning and creation.
- College/school:
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
- Location: Tempe
- STEM-OPT extension eligible: No
15 credit hours including the required applied project course (ART 593 or AME 593 or DCE 593, or DCE 693, or DSC 593 or DSC 693, or MUP 593 or MUP 693, or THP 593 or THP 693)
Required Core (6 credit hours)
ART 542 Art and Community (3) or THP 514 Projects in Community-Based Theatre (3)
HDA 510 Design and the Arts Corps Seminar (3)
Electives (6 credit hours)
Culminating Experience (3 credit hours)
Applied Project (3)
Additional Curriculum Information
The applied project is a 593 course in AME, DCE, DSC or THP, or a 693 course in THP.
Students should see the academic unit for appropriate elective coursework.
General university admission requirements:
All students are required to meet general
university admission requirements.
U.S. applicants | International applicants | English proficiency
Applicants must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
Applicants must have earned a bachelor's or master's degree in any field from a regionally accredited institution.
Applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in the last 60 hours of their first bachelor's degree program or a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in an applicable master's degree program.
All applicants must submit:
- graduate admission application and application fee
- official transcripts
- letter of intent
- written recommendation or nomination letter
- proof of English proficiency
Additional Application Information
An applicant whose native language is not English must provide proof of English proficiency regardless of their current residency.
International students who need an F-1 or J-1 visa must apply to and be accepted to a graduate degree program before they are considered for this certificate program. International students residing in the United States on other types of visas must adhere to all Graduate College policies and procedures regarding admission to be considered for admission to this certificate program.
Students must maintain a 3.50 GPA in this program.
Admission examinations are not required.
This certificate program enables students to develop distinct pathways that also earn microcredentials across a wide variety of competencies, including:
- asset-based community cultural development
- ethical communication
- ethics
- group facilitation
- project management
- project structuring and evaluation
Dean, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
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HerbergerAdmissions@asu.edu
480-965-5337
3 year programs
These programs allow students to fast-track their studies after admission and earn a bachelor's degree in three years or fewer while participating in the same high-quality educational experience of a 4-year option. Students should talk to their academic advisor to get started.
Accelerated master's
These programs allow students to accelerate their studies to earn a bachelor's plus a master's degree in as few as five years (for some programs).
Each program has requirements students must meet to be eligible for consideration. Acceptance to the graduate program requires a separate application. Students typically receive approval to pursue the accelerated master’s during the junior year of their bachelor's degree program. Interested students can learn about eligibility requirements and how to apply.
