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Department of Curriculum and Instruction Master's Programs in Talent Development
Texas State Department of Curriculum and Instruction Master's Programs in Talent Development Graduate Minor in Creativity Studies

Graduate Minor in Creativity Studies

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Texas State University offers a graduate minor in Creativity Studies in Education. This minor requires a minimum of nine credit hours and is available to all graduate students in all majors.

Courses in the Creativity Studies Minor
Courses in the Creativity Studies Minor
1) CI 5310 Creativity: Theories, Research, and Applications
Courses in the Creativity Studies Minor
2) CI 5381 Creativity, Interest, and World(s)
Courses in the Creativity Studies Minor
3) Choose one: CI 5368 The Politics and Creativity of Being and Becoming, or EDTC 5341 Digital Fabrication and Simple Electronics
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  • Graduate Catalog Course Descriptions

    • 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.

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

    • 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.

    • 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.

Students may change to this minor with the Graduate College's Change of Minor form.  There is no fee for changing minors.  Dr. Susan Field Waite, the graduate advisor for the minor in Creativity Studies, can help you with this change.  Her email address is sw22@txstate.edu.

Typical Course Scheduling (subject to change)
Typical Course Scheduling (subject to change)
CI 5310: Spring and Summer I
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CI 5381: Spring and Summer I
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CI 5368: Spring or Fall (depending on year)
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EDTC 5341: Fall
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Note: CI 5310 and CI 5381 will not be offered in Spring 2021.

Academic Advisor and Coordinator

The academic advisor and coordinator for the Creativity Studies in Education graduate minor is Dr. Susan Field Waite (sw22@txstate.edu).