The Community Arts University Without Walls is now launching its Puerto Rico-based COMMUNITY ARTS CULTURAL ARTS ADVOCACY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM SUMMER 2012. This intensive, 16 credit summer course will run from June 4th to 29th, 2012; hosted by Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe (CEA), currently accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The CAUWW certificate program will provide those interested in working within the community arts field courses taught by renowned experts culturally grounded in the arts, public policy, and best practices that have made significant contributions to diverse communities.
The course of study will focus on the legacy of the civil rights, cultural equity, and social and economic justice movements, and their continuing impact. The courses will include a historical analysis of the challenges that motivated the emergence of the field, and the role of founding artists and cultural workers in establishing community-based programs and organizations. Students will meet and work with policymakers, scholars, community arts advocates, artists, and cultural workers, to collectively work and develop strategies for contributing to their communities and the broader society, to assure equity at all levels of society. Central to the process is the commitment to embrace and honor traditions, cultural histories and evolving transformations that inform the aesthetic and artistic expressions of the diversity of communities of color and poor white culturally grounded communities. CAUWW has, at its fundamental theoretical approach and praxis, values that underlie the global spectrum of cultural experiences that are the core of achieving cultural equity.
The program accepts applications from four student situations:
Matriculating undergraduates
Matriculating graduate students
Students who have recently completed a formal course of study
Non-traditional students, adult learners, community activists without formal credentials.
Key to the integration is a project-based approach whereby students can either bring with them a project that they have been involved in or join in a community-based project underway in Puerto Rico. These projects will allow students to exchange knowledge and analysis of their circumstances from a variety of perspectives, in effect creating a basis for equitable co-learning despite different levels of formal education.
Projects should be developed in consultation with a faculty advisor or community-based mentor.
APPLICATION
The application process consists of an Online Student Profile submission, to be found at www.cauww.org/apply and you will need to send CEA the required documents in order to begin your registration process. Please visit www.cauww.org for deadlines and requirements.
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM TIMELINE
Student Profile submission deadline: March 30 2012
Application submission deadline: March 30, 2012
Review by selection committee: Approx. March 30, 2012–April 15, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: Approx. April 15, 2012
Location
Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe
#52 Cristo Street
Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Some of the program’s collaborators, advisors, and faculty include Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, President of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute; Dr. Randy Martin, Chair NYU Art & Public Policy Department; Dr. Marielba Torres, cultural advocate and professor of the University of Puerto Rico; and renowned Puerto Rican artists, such as Antonio Martorell, Pedro Adorno and Edgardo Larregui.
“This project will make it possible to channel the energies and talents of artists into constructive directions and make it possible for their creativity to further the development and uplift of the communities from which they originate.” —Pedro A. Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development, NYU
For inquiries and to apply, please contact:
www.cauww.org
[email protected]
T212.307.7420 Ext. 3011
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