Psychology: ARTS ® is a ten-week seminar that applies principles of expressive arts therapy, positive psychology, and social-emotional development to promote individual and community healing. Through structured visual art exercises, mind-mapping, guided self-reflection, and collaborative dialogue, students explore psychological themes such as resilience, identity formation, trauma response, communication, and emotional regulation. Each week builds toward the creation of an original ARTS ® portfolio—an expressive body of work reflecting personal insight and growth. The course integrates culturally responsive and creative Social Emotional Learning (SEL) practices, emphasizing creativity as a tool for cognitive processing, emotional expression, and strengthening interpersonal relationships. Psychology: ARTS ® supports interdisciplinary engagement across clinical, community, and educational psychology settings.
ARTS three-part series (Ponders, No Wordz, and Do The Math) supports the goals of the Global Citizenship program by guiding students from personal reflection and ethical awareness to expressive and relational understanding across differences, and finally to critical analysis, decision making, and community engaged action. Together, the sequence mirrors the program’s emphasis on interconnectedness, interdisciplinary inquiry, and the responsibility of individuals to translate self-knowledge into positive local and global impact.