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ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY

Art Therapy is ideally situated at Long Island University within the Art Department, though we maintain a close and productive relationship with the psychology and counseling programs.

The campus covers over 300 acres of land and includes more than 40 buildings. The C.W. Post Campus is recognized as one of the nation's most beautiful academic settings which has been designed and built to meet the needs of a varied student population that includes both men and women, adult and traditional students, international students, graduate and undergraduate students, students in residence and commuters.

The C.W. Post Campus offers many facilities of special interest to students. Dining facilities are situated in the award-winning Hillwood Commons, which offers a cafeteria, a delicatessen, The Café Origins gourmet coffee and pastry bar and the Top of the Commons Restaurant. The B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library houses the major collections of the C.W. Post Campus as part of the more than 2.1 million volumes in the university system. The building is also the home to the Palmer School of Library and Information Science, the School of Education, and the Information Technology Center. The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, which is linked to Hillwood Commons, was erected in 1981. The concert hall offers all students, including those registered in graduate programs, discounted tickets for all presentations. The Tilles Center also offers appearances by major American and international symphonic orchestras, ballet and dance companies, concert artists and popular entertainers. The C.W. Post Campus affords the graduate students many other cultural, social, intellectual and recreational benefits, ranging from art exhibitions in the Hillwood Art Museum to use of the on-campus North Shore Equestrian Stables.

The Art Therapy program is housed amongst the woods and equestrian trails in an old cottage within the sculpture building complex. Beside the graduate assistant and faculty offices, the art therapy program has a small dedicated classroom where supervision seminars classes meet. Students also meet in a large dedicated studio/classroom. This studio/classroom has seating for up to 20 students and is equipped for video viewing. Additionally, students have access to this studio classroom to work on their own projects or critiques when classes are not in session. The art studios are spread throughout the campus with well-appointed ceramics, printmaking, painting, digital arts, photography, film and dance studios rounding out the School for the Visual and Performing Arts.