Creativity Studies Certificate

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Certificate Lead: Contact: Israel Espinosa

Sponsored by: Creativity Studies Specialization

Description

A complex and fast changing world demands new and creative approaches in a wide variety of professional areas including counseling, business, coaching, education, government, health on and social transformation. Understanding the dynamics of creativity can enhance professional growth and personal well-being. There is a vital role for creativity studies in making the most of our self-awareness and furthering our human potential. The certificate in Creativity Studies is designed to understand the history, research, and to apply creativity studies to the student’s professional field of study. This Certificate will give students a broad understanding of creativity research and allow students and non-degree individuals to pursue specific areas of interest.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of the Certificate, students will be able to…

1. Delineate their own conceptions about creativity based on the literature and their own experience.
2. Discuss their individual creative process and factors that have stimulated or inhibited their creativity in the past.
3. Discuss potential factors (e.g., personal, social, transpersonal) that might encourage or discourage creativity.
4. Give examples of biological, psychological, and social factors that play a role in what society calls “creatives,” and how creative one can be.
5. Explain differences between creativity in everyday life and eminent creativity.
6. Describe whether creativity has a distinctly different quality in different domains of activity (e.g., arts vs. sciences).
7. Demonstrate knowledge of ways in which questions of interest on creativity have been researched, including through qualitative and quantitative methods.
8. Explain several ways in which students might enhance creativity in their own particular area of interest at both the individual and societal level.
9. Teach basic information about creativity to individuals or groups.
10. Conduct a theoretical exploration of a particular area of creativity studies, and defend one’s approach and conclusions.
11. Know how to create a peer group for sharing, support, or engaging in group creative activities.
12. Design, implement, and evaluate an application of what has been learned in a particular area.
13. Discover new and unexpected things about the nature of creativity and about oneself.
14. Take a creative risk and have some fun!