COR 3802 The Creative State: Human Creativity - the Individual and the Community
What fosters creativity in the individual? What facilitates a creative society? This course examines the nature, practice, impact, and value of Human Creativity through an interdisciplinary lens that includes physiology, neuroscience, psychology, politics, sociology, and the arts. Students will study the relationship between creativity and the brain, analyze how governments, employers, and societies can foster—or stifle—creative output, and analyze both historical and contemporary case studies of creativity, both visible and hidden. Learning activities include in-class and online discussions, in-class expert guest lectures (potentially from Neuroscience, Urban Planning, and more), outside readings, and written reflections. Students will also practice the creative process by producing their own original creative work based on instructor provided prompts. The course culminates in the Capstone Project of the Elon Core Curriculum which synthesizes student’s multidisciplinary understanding of creativity with their broader Elon education and individual disciplinary interests.
Open to students in the third or fourth year of study. This course is writing intensive.
Prerequisite
COR 1100 or COR 0011. Open to students in the third or fourth year of study.
Course Types
Core Integrative Seminar