A Shared Multi-Disciplinary Creativity Requirement for First Year Students

Even though interest in embedding creativity into tertiary curricula has grown internationally, little scholarship exists about implementation strategies or the efficacy of linking creativity pedagogies to first-year experience programs. This practice report describes how Suffolk University in Bosto...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marilyn Plotkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Queensland University of Technology 2018-03-01
Series:Student Success
Online Access:https://studentsuccessjournal.org/article/view/423
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Summary:Even though interest in embedding creativity into tertiary curricula has grown internationally, little scholarship exists about implementation strategies or the efficacy of linking creativity pedagogies to first-year experience programs. This practice report describes how Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, inserted a new creativity requirement for first-year students as a part of curriculum reform in the College of Arts and Sciences and in the Sawyer Business School in spite of considerable resistance.  It will demonstrate the uniqueness of the approach and suggest anticipated outcomes in advance of a comprehensive assessment process now underway.
ISSN:2205-0795