Creativity/Innovation

Creativity/Innovation falls under the Intellectual Toolkit Capacity.

BU students across all fields of study will benefit from learning how to think in new ways, imagine new possibilities, take new approaches, and/or make new things.

Creative activity is a source of deep human satisfaction and common good. In addition, the ability to generate and pursue new ideas is quickly becoming a prerequisite for entry into the skilled workforce, which places a premium on applicants’ creative skills and potential for contributing to creativity’s more applied offspring, innovation. BU graduates should understand how the creative process moves from need or desire to design, to draft, to redesign, to execution; they will have personal experience of taking risks, failing, and trying again; and, in this way, they will have developed the patience and persistence that enables creativity to come ultimately to fruition.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate understanding of creativity as a learnable, iterative process of imagining new possibilities. This can be observed in three interrelated ways:
    1. Students practice creative and innovative thinking as an iterative process, for example by revising their ideas or their methodologies in response to feedback from peers or instructors.
    2. Students will provide a metacognitive reflection, in which they evaluate their choices in relation to risk-taking or experimentation and identify individual and institutional factors that promote and/or inhibit creativity.
    3. Students generate a product based on the above processes. (See learning outcome #2.)
  2. Students will be able to exercise their own potential for engaging in creative activity by conceiving and executing original work either alone or as part of a team.

Courses

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