Create, Innovate, Act: Creativity, Innovation, and Social Action

Catalog description

Introductory course for first and second year undergraduates. This course bridges sciences, arts, and humanities, with focus on experiential knowledge and engagement with the everyday. Combines methods from broad range of areas based on creative inquiry and innovation. Students chose particular areas, or combination thereof, discussing their own research, inventions, artworks, compositions, performances, new media, or activist interventions. Specific skills developed at specialized maker spaces, labs, and studios. With exception of guest presentations, lectures delivered in video format to maximize class time production. Guest speakers include artists, activists, innovators, entrepreneurs, curators, and scholars.