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MA Programme in
Artistic Psycho-Social Practices

A joint programme of the New Bulgarian University
and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate

Programme council: Dr. David Ieroham, M.D., Dr. Diana Tzirkova, Zlatko Teoharov, Rossen Atanassov, Tzvetelina Iossifova

Programme reviewers: Prof. Dr. Thomas Schwinger – Dr. phil. habil., Psychologe; Psychodramatherapeut (DFP/DAGG), Supervisor (DGSv), Professor fur Sozialtherapie an der Evangelischen Fachhochschule Darmstadt; Privatdozent fur Psychologie an der Westfalischen Wilhelms-Universitat Munster/Westfalen; Associate Professor Dr. Ivailo Ditchev – Culturology lecturer at the Sofia University, Faculty of Philosophy; Vessela Banova – Clinical Psychologist, lecturer in Psychology and Clinical Psychology programmes at the New Bulgarian University

Specialty and Proficiency: Master of Arts, profile: Artistic Psycho-Social Practices / Art Consultant in the social field

Competence of the programme: The programme offers a practice-oriented training, including basic knowledge and skills for working with people, founded on different psycho-social approaches such as psychodrama, sociometry, group dynamics, role-analysis, role-playing, drama-approaches, etc.

The programme is designed as a meeting place for the modern psychological theories of human behavior on the one hand and the social applications of the different arts, on the other. It forms initial knowledge about the human being and his/her environment, as well as about the interaction between the people through the perspective of the creativity and the spontaneity, thought of as basic categories of the personal development and autonomy.

The programme offers knowledge and skills for improving the social functioning of man and increasing his/her existential and personal effectiveness.

The graduates in Artistic Psycho-social Practices:
• could work in the field of the arts, the education, social work, health services, different consulting practices with individuals, groups, communities and institutions;
• could work in interdisciplinary teams together with artists, psychologists, pedagogues, social workers, physicians, managers, educators and other professionals and realize artistic and other projects with socially disadvantaged people, people trying to improve their personal and social skills, people suffering from mental illnesses, victims of violence, addicts, people with special needs;
• could work within individual, group and organizational context for problem-solving, decision-making, optimization of interpersonal relationships, organizational functioning, the management of people, teams, etc.
• could carry out scientific research in the field of the arts and the human interactions in different cultural contexts

On the one hand, the programme affords an opportunity for psychologists, social workers, pedagogues, etc. of applying artistic means in the psycho-social work, while on the other it creates an alternative occupation for artists, being a social application of already acquired and developed professional competences.

Additional admission requirements:
The offered Master programme is designed for:
1. practitioners in the field of the different arts, psychologists, social workers, pedagogues, human sciences professionals, managers of cultural organizations, etc., having at least a Bachelor degree;
2. undergraduates in arts, psychology, social work, pedagogy, human sciences, with no more than 6 credits remaining to the acquisition of a Bachelor degree in some of the above-mentioned domains (for the New Bulgarian University students)

Application papers:
=) a Bachelor degree diploma in the field of the arts, psychology, social work, philosophy or human sciences acquired in a local or foreign University;
=) an academic record of accomplished at least third year of undergraduate studies in the field of arts, psychology, social work, philosophy or human sciences in a local or foreign university (subject to preliminary consultation and assessment).

The motivational essay gives the applicant an opportunity of exposing coherently his or her personal motives for applying to the programme, according to his or her knowledge, experience or interest in the use and application of artistic psycho-social practices. The essay is supposed to reveal the applicant’s interest in the human relations, in the way the people are expressing themselves and are relating to one another in social life; his or her interest in particular art, his or her intellectual background, etc.

Requirements:
Total credits: 60
• Obligatory courses – 16
• Eligible courses – 29 credits, (16 of which from other programmes in the field of the arts, offered by New Bulgarian University, as well as such that will be especially designed for the programme)
• Master’s dissertation – 15 credits

COURSES

Obligatory courses

1-st semester
PRACTICAL MODULE
APP101 Introduction to Psychodrama - 30 hours, 2 credits
Dr. David Ieroham, M.D., Tzvetelina Iossifova
APP102 Introduction to Sociometry, Sociodynamics and Sociodrama – 30 hours, 2 credits
Zlatko Teoharov, Rossen Atanassov
THEORETICAL MODULE
APP103 The Drama of Personality in the Different Psychological Theories (The Playing Man) – two-semester course (²-st part), 60 hours, 4 credits
Dr. David Ieroham, M.D., Zlatko Teoharov

2-nd semester
PRACTICAL MODULE
APP201 The Psychodramatic Action – 30 hours, 2 credits
Dr. David Ieroham, M.D.
THEORETICAL MODULE
APP202 Psychological Theories of Development from the Outlook of Drama – two-semester course (²-st part), 60 hours, 4 credits
Dr. Diana Tzirkova, Rossen Atanassov
APP203 The Drama of Personality in the Different Psychological Theories (The Playing Man) – two-semester course (²²-nd part), 60 hours, 4 credits
Dr. David Ieroham, Zlatko Teoharov

3-rd semester
THEORETICAL MODULE
APP301 Psychological Theories of Development from the Outlook of Drama – two-semester course (II-nd part), 60 hours, 4 credits
Dr. Diana Tzirkova, Rossen Atanassov

Eligible courses:

APP104 Application of the Systemic Approach in Group for Working with Artistic Metaphors (Interactional Atelier) - 45 hours, 3 credits
Dr. David Ieroham, M.D.
APP105 Practical Role-training – two-semester course (I-st part), 60 hours, 4 credits
Dr. David Ieroham, M.D., Dr. Diana Tzirkova, Rossen Atanassov, Tzvetelina Iossifova
APP106 Exploration and Diagnostics of the Action Context (text- and case-study) – two-semester course (I-st part), 60 hours, 4 credits
Dr. David Ieroham, M.D., Tzvetelina Iossifova
APP107 The Prerequisites for the Emergence and the Development of Psychodrama – 30 hours, 2 credits
Dr. David Ieroham, M.D., Rossen Atanassov
APP108 Interpretation and Psychodrama of Fairy Tales – 30 hours, 2 credits
Dr. Diana Tzirkova
APP204 Role and Identity – 30 hours, 2 credits
Zlatko Teoharov
APP205 Practical Role-training – two-semester course (I²-nd part), 60 hours, 4 credits
Dr. David Ieroham, M.D., Dr. Diana Tzirkova, Rossen Atanassov, Tzvetelina Iossifova
APP206 Exploration and Diagnostics of the Action Context (text- and case-study) – two-semester course (²²-nd part), 60 hours, 4 credits
Dr. David Ieroham, M.D., Tzvetelina Iossifova
APP207 Psychodrama of Fairy Tales – 30 hours, 2 credits
APP208 The Art of Play – two-semester course (²-st part), 60 hours, 4 credits
Rossen Atanassov
APP209 Individual Psychodrama (Monodrama and Social Atom) – 30 hours, 2 credits
APP210 The Therapeutic Theatre – 30 hours, 2 credits
APP302 The Mythological World – 30 hours, 2 credits
Dr. Diana Tzirkova
APP303 Art-therapy – 30 hours, 2 credits
APP304 Music- and Dance-therapy – 30 hours, 2 credits
APP305 Puppet-therapy – 30 hours, 2 credits
APP306 Playback Theatre – 30 hours, 2 credits
APP307 Warm-up Techniques – 30 hours, 2 credits
APP308 Psychoanalysis of Art – 30 hours, 2 credits
APP309 Psychodrama and Psychoanalysis – 30 hours, 2 credits
APP310 Socioanalysis – 30 hours, 2 credits

For information & contact:
e-mail: apsp2002@hotmail.com
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