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Course Date:
TBA
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Registration Period:
TBA
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Duration/Frequency:
270 hours (1 year)
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Mode of Training:
Facilitated Learning (Face-to-Face/ Online Synchronous) and Asynchronous E-Learning
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Venue:
Singapore Polytechnic (facilitated classroom training) and Online E-Learning
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Funding:
Eligible for SkillsFuture Credit
Please note that once the maximum class size is reached, the online registration will be closed. You may register your interest and be notified when there is a new run.
Class schedule:
To be advised
Course Duration:
270 hours (1 year)
PDC to start with:
PDC 2
Enquiries
For course specific details, please contact the course manager:
Name: Ms Sukitha Kunasegaran
Email: Sukitha_KUNASEGARAN@sp.edu.sg
For other enquiries, please email to ptenquiry@sp.edu.sg
The SP Media, Arts and Design School is pleased introducing our Specialist Diploma in Applied Drama & Psychology (NSADP). This programme enables working professionals, in the Education and Social Service settings, to deepen their skills set in a new knowledge domain, as part of their journeys in being life-long learners. This part-time course can be completed in One Year.
The NSADP course focuses on professionals from the Social Service sector, doing community engagement work. Participants will be equipped with a deeper understanding of emerging issues during the human lifespan, current trends featured in today’s society, as well as skills to design and manage effective community programmes using applied drama as an engagement tool. By the end of the course, participants will have an understanding of:
- How Community Engagement programmes can be framed and designed ethically and sustainably
- The Psychological developments of an age-related community
- Drama-based techniques and how to facilitate them
- How to reflect on one’s own practice using a reflective framework
The course consists of six modules, conducted over Two semesters within One academic year. There will be a combination of E-learning and Face-to-Face sessions for the Psychology modules
Applied Drama lessons are experiential and collaborative in nature and commitment, to the sessions are required. All Applied Drama sessions will be conducted as in-class lessons
Participants, with prior relevant experience, may write into request for exemption to modules, being granted on a case-to-case basis
This course consists of 2 Post Diploma Certificates (PDCs). Each PDC will consist of three modules. The details are as follow:
PDC 1 Certificate in Designing Programmes for Community Engagement
Module 1 – Community Psychology
Module 2 – Programme Development & Management
Module 3 – Facilitation through Drama-based Activities
PDC 2 Certificate in Designing Programmes for Well-being
Module 4 – Positive Psychology for Well-being
Module 5 – Reframing Perspectives through Applied Drama
Please click here for Module Synopsis
Applicants who are not able to commit to the time required for the full specialist diploma may choose to take individual modules. Credits earned from the modular learning can be accumulated to gain a full specialist diploma qualification within 2-year validity period. Please submit your application for the course and send an email to ptenquiry@sp.edu.sg and state the modules you would like to apply for.