The Creative Process In this course, students will have the opportunity to dig deeply into their own creativity and explore the processes by which ideas emerge and are given shape in the arts. The experiential nature of this course integrates cognition and action, mind and body.  Students will engage in a range of modes of discovering, knowing, and communicating, which are designed to push them beyond their present state of awareness and level of confidence in their creative power.  Practical work will be closely accompanied by readings and journaling, culminating with the creation and performance of a short project.

Culture as Creative Process This course is designed for students from a broad range of backgrounds and academic disciplines who are interested in developing their unique creative process, researching their cultural history, and creating and revising performance projects that reflect the intersection of the two. Improvisatory tools and guided imagery provide methods for developing creative work. Weekly workshops in movement from the African diaspora, regular journaling, work-in-progress showings, and feedback sessions add further depth. Students will also generate a bibliography relating to their cultural history and present the results of their research in written form. (This course can count for dance and theatre majors as ARDV 0116).

Christal Brown

Julia Proctor

Karima Borni

Laurel Jenkins

Lida Winfield

Michole Biancosino

Mira Veikley

Olga Sanchez Saltveit

Summer Jack

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The Creative Process is a great class to open up your mind into a more art based world. Your only goal in the class is to understand yourself, others, and art more. I recommend this class for anyone who wants to slow down for a bit and get creative.

Great course that helps take some of the load off your schedule. I really enjoyed the meditation and the guest lecturers she would bring. My semester's cohort was pretty engaged which made the whole experience more fun. I recommend signing up with a friend if you want to maximize your enjoyement

The course was really fun, started off with a meditation session each day. Most of this class is about taking you out of your comfort zone and making yourself submerge within what the topic was that specific day.