1/3/02 - All books for this course are in at the WSU campus Barnes and Noble Bookstore. See below for the titles.

[Meetings for this course are coordinated with the online courses

• Web.Edu: How Internet Courses Work GIS 1600 Section 981 Call # 981 (1 credit)
• Times' Harvest (Futures Studies) AGS 3360 Section 990 Call # 98319

However, these courses do not have to be taken together.]

Course options for Creativity: Building the New:

• ISP 5660 Section 981, Call Number 90571, 3 credits (Upper Division undergraduate or graduate, Creativity: Building the New)
• ISP 5660 Section 982, Call Number 95256, 4 credits (Upper Division undergraduate or graduate, Creativity: Building the New)

We make and use new things all of the time: music, a new wrinkle to an old recipe, a paper for a college course… and so on; you get the idea. We use our creativity all of the time – our ability to make something new to meet a need. Much of what we call the twentieth century is due to major creative personalities who made dramatic changes in the way we look at the world and at each other. For example, Freud defined our present concepts of the ego and the unconscious. Even though many of his ideas are criticized today, he still developed much of the language and many of the concepts that we use to criticize his ideas! Similarly, Picasso painted some of the first abstract pictures; paintings that went beyond the idea that artists are supposed to accurately represent the world we see. No one creates art today, or looks at art today, without being influenced by Picasso. It doesn't matter whether or not you like the paintings; the ideas are part of you.

Major creators are important; one researcher calls it "Big C" creativity. But each of us can be creative. "Little c" creativity -- creativity that may not change the whole way we see the world -- is still very important. Corporate and personal creativity drive our progress and satisfy our beings.

Creativity: Building the New is online. We will use email for assignments, and the World Wide Web for course materials and computer conferencing.

There will be several class meetings during the beginning of the semester, and an additional class meeting at the end of the semester, specific dates will be announced on the course web site (see below). For graduate credit, there will be additional meetings.

Textbooks:

1. Howard Gardner, Creating Minds, pub. Basic Books 1993 (paperback). ISBN 0-465-01454-2
2. Alan G. Robinson & Sam Stern, Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen, pub. Berrett-Koehler Publishers (San Francisco) 1997 (paperback if available). ISBN (hardbound) 1-57675-009-4
3. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity (paper), Harper Perennial / Harper Collins, New York NY, 1997. ISBN 0-06-092820-4

Dates for class meetings (all are Thursday from 7 to 9 PM in 113 Rackham Building (northeast corner of Woodward and Warren):

1. Thursday, January 10 (joint meeting with Times' Harvest, AGS 3360)
2. Thursday, January 24
3. Thursday, February 14
4. Thursday, February 28
5. Thursday, April 11
6. Thursday, April 25 (joint meeting with ISP 5660, Creativity)

For further information, or for questions or comments,

• Contact the Instructor as follows: David R. Bowen, email to d.r.bowen@wayne.edu or by telephone (WSU): (313) 577-1498, or (evenings) (248) 549-8518.
• Or - see the full description of the Winter 2000 version at http://www.cll.wayne.edu/isp/drbowen/crtvyw00.
• The course web site for Winter 2002 will have additional information about class meetings after November 15; syllabi, assignments and textbook requirements will be available after December 15, all at http://www.cll.wayne.edu/isp/drbowen/crtvyw02.)

Maps:

Rackham Building

Main  Campus (Rackham is at right-hand edge about two-thirds of the way down from the top of the map)