This course aims to examine the idea of creativity via writing.  Through a series of in-class and take-home writing activities, games, research tasks and in-class critique, we create experiences for students to de-emphasize creativity as a mystery. Instead, we demonstrate to them creativity is a way of life, and is tied to other growth experiences such as enhanced self-awareness and self-understanding.  The following qualities would be upheld, encouraged and cultivated: integration, that is the ability to make connections and discover new relations among things, and to see the unfamiliar in the familiar and vice versa; flexibility & openness, that is, the ability and readiness to adopt new perspectives and to engage in different points of view; and observational power, that is, attention to details, and the ability to use the five senses fully.
 
In terms of writing, the course has two main goals: (1) to help students to undo all forms of negativity that have hampered their interest in writing; and (2) to re-consider writing as an interdisciplinary activity that integrates flexibly with other perceptual and creative activities. In brief, the workshop series enables students to overcome their hurdles for writing and to re-invent writing into playful experiments that challenge both their intellect and their personhood. 

Continuous Assessment: 100%