Creativity, Courage, and Consequences
a Discovery Core Experience
BCORE 104 (Arts & Humanities)
About This Course
In our technological world where information is readily available and rapid change has become the norm, there is a pressing need across all disciplines and industries for people who think creatively and are comfortable working across disciplines. Through this course, we will examine the growing urgent need for imagination, creativity, and innovation and will explore and develop personal approaches to these skills through interdisciplinary inquiry. Contemplation, constructive play, readings and active discussions will launch written and visual arts projects designed to broaden creative resourcefulness and challenge personal and collective limitations.
How Will We Learn?
Through this 50% hybrid course, students work independently to identify and expand their creative potential through a range of mediums and methodologies.聽 Group projects will explore the social potential of creativity through the design and implementation of community-based art projects that utilize what students have learned and impact the larger campus community.聽
Why Take This Course?
Creativity, by definition, explores the unknown/the yet to be, and is often seen as intimidating or even unachievable. But we all carry far more creative potential than we realize.聽 Recognizing and expanding our unique potential is like any muscle or learned skill; it simply requires a focused effort, presence, and practice.聽
Professor Gary Carpenter (he/him/his)
Education
- B.F.A. Painting and Drawing, University of Washington
- M.F.A. Painting and Drawing, University of Washington
Contact
Email: glc2@uw.edu
I encourage experimentation, nurture individuality and believe that what we tend to view as failures often carry far more valuable and productive lessons than our successes.
Professor Carpenter