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Programme Structure

This programme includes three full-time seminars spread over 8 days’ duration, beginning at 1pm on the first Friday and finishing at 1pm the following Friday. Each of the 6 consecutive full days requires 8.30am to 4.30pm attendance. All other directed study is home based. Spread over a total of 33 weeks, the programme is considered to be part-time and equivalent to 0.33 of a full-time course. Anthroposophical Studies (The Art of Health) supplies 40 credits and is NZQA-approved at Level 4.

Please note that as a 40-credit programme, there is an associated notional value of 400 hours’ learning and study altogether.

On-site seminar learning will include:

workshops, small group processes, lectures and discussions, artistic experience through a variety of media, and exploration through movement.

Self-directed home-based study will need a minimum commitment of 5-8 hours per week. Projects and assignments will include:

artistic exercises, recording observations and processes, contemporary issues investigation extending seminar learning, short research projects and essays.

Record of Studies

Upon successful completion of the Athroposophical Studies (The Art of Health) course each participant is issued with a Certificate and an Academic Record listing all modules and personal performance. The Certificate is registered with NZQA as a unique ‘local course’; credits are not unit standards and will not appear on the NQF Record of learning. We expect attendance to be 100% for any given module, and assignments to be satisfactorily completed before credits are awarded.

Tutors at the seminars keep attendance records, give verbal feedback and make written reports. Participants also give evaluative feedback to tutors at the end of each seminar, and a full programme evaluation at the end of the programme.