Art 524

TIFFIN UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES

Minimum Course Content Guide

Course Number:    ART 524                      

Course Name:    Creativity and Its Development

Prerequisite(s): None                                  

Course Description: This course studies how artists, writers, composers, and scientists develop creativity and how students can generate new ideas.  The topic is considered from psychological, educational, and artistic points of view. Readings are drawn from psychologists, philosophers, and artists, broadly defined.  Offered every Summer. (3 hour)

Outcomes Assessment Course

Master of Humanities

Intended Outcome 1:

Students will develop/further develop the ability to analyze and evaluate works of scholarship or the arts. Courses Involved: ENG 530, ART 524, and ART 623

Activity Statement: Through a critical analysis, students will examine a work of scholarship or arts in the Humanities. In addition to learning about the work of scholarship or art and its role in the Humanities, students will apply critical theory to the work. Students will develop and demonstrate graduate-level ability in analytic and evaluative skills. 

Assessment Criteria:

80% of students in will achieve a score of 80 percent or better on finished academic papers, based upon the WIC Rubric. 

Intended Outcome 2: 

Students will develop/further develop the ability to engage in honest, courteous, intelligent, scholarly discourse. Courses Involved: All MA HUM courses.

Activity Statement: Weekly threaded discussion will be required of all courses in the Master of Humanities program. Participation and quality of content will be evaluated as determined by the context of the course. 

Assessment Criteria:

80% of the students will achieve a score of 80 percent or better on threaded discussions.  

Goals:

1.  To learn the prevailing points of view about creativity and its origins. 

2.  To gain a better understanding of the creative process and define creativity.

3.  To understand how some artists go through the creative process.

4.  To constructively analyze the work of other artists.

5.  To understand why we create, why we sometimes can’t, and get past what limits us.

Evaluation:

Weekly summaries of the readings, continued threaded discussions, a short critical paper (5 pages), an artistic or critical project (10-12 pages or equivalent), threaded discussions of the projects, and a criticism of a fellow student’s project.

Minimum Topic Outline:

1.     To understand the motivations, theories, and practices of creativity as a phenomenon.

2.     To work within that understanding and develop creative works.

3.     To see artistic fields from scientific points of view and the obverse: to see scientific creation from artistic points of view.

Potential Textbook: 

·      Ghiselin, B. Ed. (1985).The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention of Art.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

·      May, R. (1994). The Courage to Create. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

·      Selected articles

Lead Instructor: Vince Moore

Updated: October 2010

Reviewed: Fall 2010

Revised: May 2012

Reviewed: Sept. 2012