MA in Health Arts and Sciences

The low residency Masters in Health Arts and Sciences Program: Bridging Nature, Culture, and Healing is a 48 credit graduate program, with a 36 credit program available to professional nurses. Health Arts and Sciences inspires students to gain new tools to actively help restore wholeness and health to people and their communities. Students build their self-directed study through a synthesis of integrative health studies, holistic sciences, multi-cultural and social justice perspectives, and an active engagement with the self-care and awareness practices. This integral approach enables students to create resilience and sustainability. As such, students in the low residency MA in Health Arts and Sciences Program challenge themselves to reflect deeply, create meaningful relationships, and develop the resources that are needed to foster healing through personal transformation and radical social change.

Throughout the process students in the low residency MA in Health Arts and Sciences Program are encouraged to bring their own rich experiences, skills, and knowledge to their studies, and to draw on multiple dimensions for learning - from intuition to the sciences, from reflective solitude to dynamic community dialogue, and from reading to direct experience. Graduates of the low residency MA in Health Arts and Sciences Program work in their communities as health educators, counselors, consultants, coaches, writers and researchers, organizers and activists, holistic practitioners and guides, holistic nurses, teachers, movement and expressive arts facilitators, and entrepreneurs.