The M.A. in Engaged Humanities & the Creative Life-A Hybrid Online/Low-Residency Program- Now accepting applications Fall 2012.
Pacifica's M.A. Program in Engaged Humanities & the Creative Life has been designed for individuals in the visual, performing, narrative, studio, and media arts; the creative side of advertising, marketing, and product development; teachers of art, literature, and the humanities; professionals in creative fields such as architecture, interior design, fashion, film, television, and music; and all those who want to live and work more creatively, or foster creativity in others.
What does it mean to live a creative life?
At Pacifica Graduate Institute, we believe the wisdom traditions of the humanities and depth psychology influence the arts and new media, and this influence and confluence can help inform and enrich the creative life. In keeping with Pacifica's mission to tend soul in and of the world, this program suggests there is no fundamental difference between art-making and soul-making. We can tend to soul in the world by tending to our creative life in the world. The world itself has a creative life, manifested in the archetypes of the collective unconscious, whose symbols, images, metaphors, and movements are all the prima materia for the creative movement of humanity.
Students in the M.A. in Engaged Humanities & the Creative Life program: • Discover strategies for tapping into the deep well of the collective unconscious as a source of creativity, including studying imagery, symbolism, and the great archetypal patterns and stories that underpin our everyday lives
• Study how people working in any creative capacity in any creative medium inspire and influence each other, and experience that same inspiration and influence inside of their cohort
• Increase their generativity and cultivate their aesthetic sensibility and sensitivity by being in constant conversation about the creative life with faculty and peers, with great literature, classic films, and works of art spanning diverse genres, cultures, and periods of time
• Find rich sources of inspiration in the humanities, including the study of mythology, philosophy, psychology, history, literature, and ecology as they affect the art and craft of living and working artfully
• Participate and collaborate with a community of creatives from across a wide variety of artistic disciplines, educational backgrounds, and life experiences
• Complete two substantial creative projects or portfolios and reflect upon their creative process
• Receive a degree which expands their job options or opens up new career tracks
The approach is broad, strongly interdisciplinary, and satisfying for those who seek to combine intellectual exploration with creativity. Candidates from a variety of backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
The M.A. in Engaged Humanities & The Creative Life program is currently accepting applications for summer and fall 2012.
"The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement.
Awe is what moves us forward." -Joseph Campbell
