What is it?
Creative Inquiry includes all intensive, discovery-oriented approaches to learning. Emphasis is placed on providing an experience that will be meaningful to undergraduate students, and will promote reasoning and critical thinking skills, ethical judgment, and communication skills as well as a deep understanding of the methods of scientific and/or humanities research.
Projects should be developed with the goal of developing students capacities to find, analyze, and evaluate information. Design projects, applied research, service-learning activities, and visual and performing arts projects are considered part of this effort, as well as basic research.
Why do it?
- Develop Problem-Solving Skills
- Develop Critical Thinking Skills
- Develop Teamwork
- Develop Communication Skills
What kinds of activities are included?
- Inner Circle: This is what we're about!
- Blue Circle: We can discover things about the past or present and create for the future
- Green Circle: These are ways we can discover and create
- Pink Circle: There are many ways to present our discoveries and creations
What's Involved?
A multi-semester commitment to work with a group of peers, mentored by a faculty member or advanced graduate student. Course credit will be given.