Creativity Studies
Courses
CRTV 501 Foundations in Creativity 3.0 Credits
Provides a foundation in creativity including leading theorists and their ideas. Questions investigated include who is creative and why? What does it mean to be creative? Is creativity a general attribute or is it discipline specific? Students will complete and score a creativity assessment.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 502 Tools and Techniques in Creativity 3.0 Credits
Provides opportunities to enhance creative capacities and strengths. Through study and experiential learning, students work toward self-mastery of creative techniques, tools and strategies. Moreover, through a fieldwork experience, students learn to teach and motivate other individuals or groups to use these techniques in real life circumstances for their benefit.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 503 Creativity in the Workplace 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on applied creativity, how creative ideas happen, how they become innovations, and how creativity can be infused into every aspect of an organization. Examples from a wide range of industries and organizations demonstrate how to build systemic creativity in individuals, in teams, and at the leadership level.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 600 Mind, Brain and Learning 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on current and emerging research related to the learning sciences and Mind, Brain, and Educations science. Neuromyths and evidence-based practices are explored. The course examines general neuroanatomy and processes associated with learning, memory, and emotion. Topics include neuroplasticity, brain imaging, differentiation, stress, and self-efficacy.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 604 Neurodiversity in Education and Workforce 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on neurodiversity. The neurobiology of learning and memory is explored from the learning sciences and Mind, Brain, and Education science within the context of educational and work environments. The impact of practice, stress, and environment are examined in connection to neuroplasticity, memory, performance, and brain imaging. Students are engaged in peer-review and self-evaluation as they demonstrate technical and applied knowledge, creative critical-thinking, and communication skills through presentations and projects aligned neurodiversity and Universal Design for Learning across real-world contexts.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 608 Neuropedagogy and Assessment 3.0 Credits
This course explores the connections between neuropedagogy, the learning sciences, and Mind, Brain, and Education science, and creative thinking. Evidence-based practices are examined including metacognition, Universal Design for Learning, spacing, interleaving, cognitive load, and feedback. Students are introduced to formative, interim, and summative assessment as well as technology platforms, tools, and applications that support mastery and transfer of learning. Students demonstrate their understanding of neuroplasticity, neuropedagogy, creative problem solving, and assessment through interactive real-world projects across educational and workforce environments.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 610 Creativity and Change Leadership 3.0 Credits
This course explores the relationship between change, leadership, and creativity, and how these three concepts mutually support one another. Distinction is made between a leader who is effective at introducing change, but who is not creative.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 615 Neuroscience, Creativity and Innovation 3.0 Credits
This course explores research on understanding the neuroscience connection to creativity and innovation and on recognizing different patterns of neural activations and deactivations during various stages of the creative process. Topics include neuroplasticity, functional fixedness, metacognition, and design thinking, particularly as it relates to establishing creative learning across education and workforce environments moving towards promoting innovation and entrepreneurship.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 617 Neuroscience of Learning & Artificial Intelligence 3.0 Credits
This transdisciplinary course navigates the intersection of the neuroscience of learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and the workforce, exploring the impact on education, teaching, and training. The course introduces neuroanatomy, neuroplasticity, neurodiversity, and the mechanisms of memory and emotions, to understand the biological bases of learning and behavior. The course examines cognitive processes related to learning, creativity, and human intelligence. Students will gain a foundation in AI, including neural networks, large language models, generative AI, robotics and robotic process automation. Ethical issues related to AI are addressed. Students engage in real-world AI application to support creativity, ideation, complex problem-solving, and transformative learning.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 620 Research Methods and Assessment of Creative and Innovative Thinking 3.0 Credits
This course acquaints students with creativity research and applications. The goal is to help students employ creative problem solving to successfully complete their course of study in the context of other responsibilities and the program's standards and requirements. Using creativity as a vehicle, students will study various research paradigms.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 630 Global Perspectives on Creativity 3.0 Credits
The goal of this course is to explore theories, research, assessment, and programs for the development of creativity in a wide variety of countries around the world. Motives for the lack of global creativity research are suggested.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 650 Current Trends in Creativity & Innovation 3.0 Credits
Focus on five major trends: the study of creativity and social influence, innovation and planning, creativity and cognitive processes, sub-system configuration, and new venture emergence. Though unique in orientation, these trends have a common bond in raising and addressing multi-level issues and possible solutions that involve multiple levels of analysis.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CRTV 660 Diagnostic Creative Intervention 3.0 Credits
Integrates diagnostic teaching, creativity, and mediation skills. Diagnostic teaching is a creative problem solving instructional model framed upon core influences on learning, in depth content knowledge, and pedagogy knowledge. Creativity theories, applications and mediation concepts complement diagnostic teaching as individuals integrate intervention strategies in identifying real problems and creative resolutions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if program is MS.
CRTV 695 Applied Project in Creativity Studies I 3.0 Credits
First of a two-course capstone experience providing creativity studies students with an opportunity to demonstrate achievement in their concentration and to engage in self-reflection. Components include a statement of awareness of personal creative strengths, evidence of emergence as a creative thinker and doer, and synthesis of creative expansion to date.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CRTV 501 [Min Grade: C] and CRTV 502 [Min Grade: C] and CRTV 503 [Min Grade: C] and CRTV 610 [Min Grade: C] and CRTV 620 [Min Grade: C] and CRTV 630 [Min Grade: C]
CRTV 696 Applied Project in Creativity Studies II 3.0 Credits
Students will complete the creative portfolio begun in CRTV 695. Components include creative expression, future directions, and reflection on the major, concentration, and experience of creating a portfolio.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CRTV 695 [Min Grade: C]
CRTV I599 Independent Study in Creativity Studies 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CRTV I699 Independent Study in Creativity Studies 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CRTV I799 Independent Study in Creativity Studies 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CRTV I899 Independent Study in Creativity Studies 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CRTV I999 Independent Study in Creativity Studies 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CRTV T580 Special Topics in Creativity Studies 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CRTV T680 Special Topics in Creativity Studies 12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CRTV T780 Special Topics in Creativity Studies 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CRTV T880 Special Topics in Creativity Studies 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CRTV T980 Special Topics in Creativity Studies 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit