GS531

Graduate Studies Form for Modules attached to Structured PhD and/or Research Masters Programmes

Title

Introduction to Creative Difference and Innovation

Credits  (ECTS)

5

Module Places

Course Instance

1SPE1, 1SPS1, 1SPD1, 1SPL1, 1SPN1, 1SPC1, 1SPA1

Module Code:

GS531

Please indicate if generic (GS) or specialised module

Elective Places

Indicative Module Descriptor:

The objectives of this course are:

• To explore key issues in the theory and practice of creative processes;
• To enhance students’ capacity to recognise their creative difference from others and to develop it;
• To assist students to make a creative difference to their doctoral research or personal environment through innovative behaviour.

Indicative Learning Outcomes:

• Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
• Describe key concepts in the theory of creative difference of personality, and  innovation
• Recognise your personality type and your aptitude for creative difference
• Recognise the importance of different states of mind and different modes of intelligence in creative process
• Recognise some of the obstacles facing you in innovation
• Manage the creative resolution of a selected problem, opportunity or issue
• Present a personal strategy for the creative resolution of a selected problem, opportunity or issue.
• Demonstrate a capacity for creative thinking and behaviour
• Develop an understanding of the characteristics of creative difference and  
• change
• Critically assess your personal aptitude to make a creative difference
• Critique a range of creative strategies

• Formulate a creative strategy for a given situation

Workload:

Class Contact

Lecture hours:  9

Art Studio Workshop hours:  9

Seminar hours: 6                                      

Independent study hours:  25              

Reading hours:  65                              

Examination:
Total Student Effort:  114                   

Workshop (other forms of educational activity)

The course comprises two 12 hour study blocks timetabled by arrangement (sometimes at weekends) at the specialist facility of the Burren College of Art, in the form of a programme of lectures, seminars and practical activities using the college’s studios and workshops, and the surrounding Burren landscape. There are also two independent study projects.

Specified Assignment(s)

Continuous Assessment                             100%*

* Continuous assessment involves the resolution of a personal project

Autonomous Student Learning

Core Text
Mihali Csikszentmihalyi, 1996, Creativity: flow and the psychology of discovery and invention, Harper Perennial: Part One, The Creative Process.

Hudson & Riso, 1999, The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Bantam: Part One and one selected chapter in Part Two describing the relevant personality type.

Note: Students need their own copy

Supplementary Texts:

Palmer, Helen (Ed.) 1998, Inner Knowing, consciousness, creativity, insight and intuition, Putnam

Ken Robinson, 2009, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, Penguin

Brewster Ghiselin, 1952, 1990,  Creative Process, Penguin

Assessment(s)

Type

% of marks

Timing

Assignments

Reports

Oral or Written Presentations as appropriate

100%

Result

Pass / Fail