Graduate Minor in Creativity Studies

Graduate Catalog Course Descriptions

• CI 5310 Creativity: Theories, Research, and Applications

  A multidisciplinary exploration of creativity theories, research, and applications. Implications of current theory and research for creative thinking and innovation. Designed for Master’s degree students in Education.

• CI 5381 Creativity, Interest, and World(s)

  This course examines issues, practices, thought traditions, and research related to creativity, interest, and world(s). Implications for education and justice are explored.

• CI 5368 The Politics and Creativity of Being and Becoming

  This course examines how some aspects of education may be inherently unpredictable, immeasurable, and not able to be generalized across contexts nor produced on demand, but still are fundamentally essential to education. Influences of societal trends, discourses, and school practices on political and creative aspects of becoming are analyzed.

• EDTC 5341 Digital Fabrication and Simple Electronics

  This course teaches the use of creativity within educational maker spaces, to inform educators (and their students K-12 grade) to think creatively using digital fabrication and technology. A maker space is a place where people come together to create with technology. Prerequisite: EDTC 5310 with a grade of "C" or better.