FIRST YEAR SEMINARS 102 - Thinking and Creating

Institution:

Hobart William Smith Colleges

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This is a course about intelligence, creativity, and all the students in the class-how they think and create. While participants study the history of intelligence testing in Stephen Jay Gould' s Mismeasure of Man , th e Bell Curv e debate, the theory of multiple intelligences by Howard Gardner, and many scholars' theories of creativity, the course explores each student's thinking patterns, problem-solving styles, and capacity for creativity. Focus is placed on thinking and creating as facets of learning through the arts in education. The last six weeks of the semester comprise a service-learning component in the Geneva Middle School, where Colleges students facilitate learning in the classroom. Integrated arts experiences are directed toward the development of non-conformist thinking and acceptance of self and others, toward a less-violent culture governed by compassion and reasoned responses in place of judgment and impulsivity. (Davenpor

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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