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    Master Degree Programme
    Artistic Psycho-Social Practices

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


    Directors: Dr. David Ieroham, M.D.; Tzvetelina Iossifova

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

    The programme is given by: Theatre Department

    Programme reviewers: Prof. Dr. Thomas Schwinger – Dr. phil. habil., Psychologe; Psychodramatherapeut (DFP/DAGG), Supervisor (DGSv), Professor f?r Sozialtherapie an der Evangelischen Fachhochschule Darmstadt; Privatdozent f?r Psychologie an der Westf?lischen Wilhelms-Universit?t M?nster/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 admission to the programme is based on 1. motivational essay 2. interview.

    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

    4-th semester
    APP401 Preparation of MA dissertation – 15 credits

    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
    tel./fax (+ 359 2) 988 81 88 / 986 44 16