Building Healthier Communities through the Arts
Oakland Campus—June 8-20, 2025
Understanding community health through the arts
The Building Healthier Communities through the Arts program is a unique collaboration between the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and the College of Arts, Media, and Design. During the program, students will learn how the arts can inform advocacy and community health education. Using Oakland as a lens, students will explore how the arts (visual, oral, literary, and performing) can help us understand populations and their neighborhoods, and advocate for resources as a key step in building healthier communities. Students will actively explore a wide range of arts, such as taking guided walks of murals, attending plays, reading graphic novels, creating and listening to storytelling, and attending dance performances.
The program will culminate in the students collaborating to design, produce and print a zine featuring art and writing they created during the program. Through the zine production process, students will learn the hands-on skills needed to produce a publication. Each student will receive a zine to keep, and their individual art and writing can also be used in college applications and future portfolios.
Areas of inspiration for this program include: Oakland Murals, East Bay Graphic Novelists, Paint the Town Program, Urban Artist Talk
An Inside Look at Building Healthier Communities through the Arts
Learning Outcomes
After completing this program, students will be able to:
Link community health and the arts
Students will be able to make meaningful connections between community health and visual, oral, literary, and performing arts.
Advance community voices and agency
Students will be able to describe how the arts can give communities a voice and agency to improve community health.
Create art to build healthier communities
Through exploration and application, students will learn to create art that improves the health of their own communities.
For an in-depth look at the two-week Building Healthier Communities through the Arts program, click the link below to download our full sample schedule.
This is for informational purposes only and is subject to change.
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Program Tuition
The program tuition is $6,895. This includes: program tuition, course materials, housing, meals, and social activities. We strive to make our programs financially accessible. All admitted students will be considered for need-based aid, and our financial aid awards are typically in the form of scholarships or program discounts.
About Northeastern
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Contact Us
Questions? Contact us at 617.373.2200 or precollegeprograms@northeastern.edu