Task Force
Benefits to Students
Creative Inquiry allows students to engage in higher-order thinking, reflect on learning, and connect experiences to their traditional coursework, and in particular, Creative Inquiry:
- Provides more “real world” experiences, increasing student interest and creating a more effective environment for learning some aspects of a discipline
- Allows students to work more intimately with faculty and develop mentored relationships
- Builds team skills and creates opportunities for peer networking and leadership
- Provides opportunities for students to pursue their intellectual and creative passions
- Promotes problem-solving, critical thinking, and personal reflection
- Extends the learning experience beyond the traditional classroom setting, enhancing the overall experience within the major
- Encourages students to build communication skills and investigative methods valued in post-graduate work (graduate school, business, professional schools, etc.)
- Promotes student ownership of ideas
- Promotes participation in the continuum of learning—expanding and intertwining general education and major-specific educational activities.
- Provides an avenue for students to organize and synthesize their learning, and collect evidence in an electronic portfolio that establishes competency in the "distributed competency" areas of general education such as ethical judgment