Minor in Innovation and Creativity

The Minor in Innovation and Creativity has been developed in response to a growing recognition of the importance of developing in students the skills, attitudes and mindsets that will allow them to address the complex problems of our society. Creativity and innovation have emerged over the past decade as essential to success in our rapidly changing world.

The Minor in Innovation and Creativity has been constructed to develop the key elements of creativity through a series of courses in which students will be asked to question respectfully, think divergently, and act collaboratively. As students work their way through these courses, they will be given opportunity to grow creative thought into actionable innovation. Creativity has been seen as the fuel of innovation, but innovation itself requires particular micro- and macro-environments that are fueled by interdisciplinary collaboration, distributed reasoning, planned failure, creativity modeling, and personal reflection, which will serve as the thread which ties the courses in the minor together.