Building Blocks of Creativity II
HUM-396 / 3 credits
Teacher: Abu-Akel Ahmad
Language: English
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Summary
Students will engage in a group-project with the aim to translate psychological theories of creativity to practice. The purpose of the project is to create an original and a functionally useful product from limited resources.
Content
In a group context, students will learn to apply theoretical knowledge to create a functionally useful product from limited resources. Here, each group will produce a creative product that will be evaluated in terms of two primary criteria: originality and functionality:
- Originality: The idea or concept of the product should be new and that is not simply an extension of something else that already exists.
- Functionality: The product needs to actually work or possess some degree of usefulness.
Keywords
Group Creativity; Functionality; Originality; Innovation
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
HUM-395
Recommended courses
None
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Assess / Evaluate strategies and skills involved in creative tasks.
- Optimize working in a group setting
- Create a functioning, original product from limited resources
Transversal skills
- Set objectives and design an action plan to reach those objectives.
- Use a work methodology appropriate to the task.
- Identify the different roles that are involved in well-functioning teams and assume different roles, including leadership roles.
- Assess progress against the plan, and adapt the plan as appropriate.
- Evaluate one's own performance in the team, receive and respond appropriately to feedback.
- Negotiate effectively within the group.
- Write a scientific or technical report.
Teaching methods
The teaching will consist of supervision of group projects.
Expected student activities
Student is expected to be active participant in the group project.
Assessment methods
A group report of the creative challenge assignment
Supervision
| Office hours | No |
| Assistants | No |
| Forum | No |
| Others | If students have questions, they can arrange time to meet with professor. |
In the programs
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Building Blocks of Creativity II
- Project: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks