Creative Pulse Summer Graduate Program

Creative Pulse 2024 Dates: June 17-July 12

Creative Pulse Applications are open! The Creative Pulse embraces critical thinking processes and habits of the mind, enabling our students to develop, refine and integrate these processes into their own thinking and learning abilities, as well as those of their students.The Master of Arts in Integrated Arts and Education is completed over two consecutive summer sessions plus independent studies and a final project. This schedule allows maximum convenience and flexibility to working educators. The immersion of summer residency is unique to the Creative Pulse. 

We also welcome non-degree-seeking, postbaccalaureate and students from other graduate programs seeking elective and professional development coursework. Click here to see our Summer 2024 offerings. 

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UMArts and The Creative Pulse are delighted to announce our collaboration with SPARK! Arts Ignite Learning to provide a variety of professional development opportunities in Arts Integration for educators. These efforts expand Missoula’s Kennedy Center training, with the goal of helping teachers develop new teaching strategies grounded in artistic thinking skills. UMArts, SPARK!, and MCPS are united in a partnership to expand these efforts throughout the state of Montana and nationwide.