Graduate Certificate Community-Engaged Practices in Design and the Arts at Arizona State University

Programme overview

The certificate program in community-engaged practices in design and the arts places you, as a designer, artist, scholar and educator, in public life and prepares you to use your creative capacities to advance culture, strengthen democracy and imaginatively address today's most pressing challenges. This certificate is an integrated, community-engaged design and arts program that serves all Herberger Institute students as well as the larger ASU community.

Faculty: Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts | Department: Dean, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts | Duration: 15 credit hours | Study mode: full-time | Location: Tempe, AZ, United States

What you will study

15 credit hours including the required applied project course (ART 593 or AME 593 or DCE 593, or DCE 693, or DSC 593 or DSC 693, or MUP 593 or MUP 693, or THP 593 or THP 693) Required Core (6 credit hours) ART 542 Art and Community (3) or THP 514 Projects in Community-Based Theatre (3) HDA 510 Design and the Arts Corps Seminar (3) Electives (6 credit hours) Culminating Experience (3 credit hours) Applied Project (3) Additional Curriculum Information The applied project is a 593 course in AME, DCE, DSC or THP, or a 693 course in THP.

Career pathways

This certificate program enables students to develop distinct pathways that also earn microcredentials across a wide variety of competencies, including: asset-based community cultural development ethical communication ethics group facilitation project management project structuring and evaluation

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Entry requirements

Applicants must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Applicants must have earned a bachelor's or master's degree in any field from a regionally accredited institution. Applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in the last 60 hours of their first bachelor's degree program or a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in an applicable master's degree program. All applicants must submit: graduate admission application and application fee official transcripts letter of intent written recommendation or nomination letter proof of English proficiency Additional Application Information An applicant whose native language is not English must provide proof of English proficiency regardless of their current residency. International students who need an F-1 or J-1 visa must apply to and be accepted to a graduate degree program before they are considered for this certificate program.

Domestic applicants: USD 13,327 a year (2026-27). Arizona resident tuition. Tuition only for the graduate on-campus (Tempe/Downtown Phoenix/Polytechnic/West Valley) rate band in the ASU tuition estimator, 2026-27: Fall 2026 plus Spring 2027 term tuition summed (full-time flat rate; part-time credit loads Source

International applicants: USD 24,780 a year (2026-27). International tuition. Tuition only for the graduate on-campus (Tempe/Downtown Phoenix/Polytechnic/West Valley) rate band in the ASU tuition estimator, 2026-27: Fall 2026 plus Spring 2027 term tuition summed (full-time flat rate; part-time credit loads ar Source

Duration: 15 credit hours

Apply through the official page: https://admission.asu.edu/apply/graduate/admission

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