Creativity Core
Curriculum
• Program Inspiration
• Program Goals
• Program Description
• Plan of Study
Presentation Overview
Maribeth Kradel-WeitzelAssistant Provost for Academic Affairs
Health Communication Design, DIRECTOR
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Maribeth Kradel-Weitzel is an assistant provost, associate professor
and founding director of Jefferson’s Creativity Core Curriculum.
“As a professional university, we know that the professions will
change, sometimes dramatically, during the careers of our
students. We want to arm them with the optimism to see
change as a creative challenge, and remember their days at
Jefferson as the time they learned to see around corners, face
obstacles with courage, and overcome uncertainty in the next
phase of their careers.”
—Dr. Stephen K. Klasko, President, Thomas Jefferson University
PROGRAM INSPIRATION
PROGRAM INSPIRATION
All exceptional endeavors and every
academic discipline requires human
creativity. The Jefferson Creativity Core
Curriculum will help you to expand your
creative capacity so that you are
equipped to work on the world’s most
complex problems in whatever discipline
you choose.
The mission of Jefferson’s Creativity
Core Curriculum is to cultivate a
confident and flexible student mindset
through learning opportunities that
explore individual and collaborative
creative aptitude and equip students to
yield novel and valuable results.
PROGRAM GOALS
Create value by producing novel output relevant to professional and
real world endeavors. 1
PROGRAM GOALS
Embrace complexity and risk with a flexible and open mindset.2
PROGRAM GOALS
Formulate new insights through unexpected connections across
disciplines, perspectives, and contexts.3
PROGRAM GOALS
Activate creative aptitude through personal reflection and
examination of biases about creativity.4
PROGRAM GOALS
Devise effective strategies for individual and/or collaborative
creative production.5
PROGRAM GOALS
Engage empathetic and critical thinking skills when framing
opportunities and solving problems. 6
PROGRAM GOALS
LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Create value by producing novel output
relevant to professional and real world
endeavors.
• Embrace complexity and risk with a
flexible and open mindset.
• Formulate new insights through
unexpected connections across disciplines,
perspectives, and contexts.
• Activate creative aptitude through
personal reflection and examination of
biases about creativity.
• Devise effective strategies for individual
and/or collaborative creative
production.
• Engage empathetic and critical thinking
skills when framing opportunities and
solving problems.
CREATIVITY
INTENSIVE
COURSE
DESIGNATIONS
REVISED
HALLMARKS
CAPSTONE
COURSE
CREATIVE
MAKING
WORKSHOPS
COURSE EXPERIENCE
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Plan for East Falls Campus Undergraduates
PLAN OF STUDY
Creative Making Workshops will provide students with the
opportunity, materials, guidance and time to experiment
in a risk-free environment in absence of expectations and
deadlines. Workshop experiences require no prior topic
knowledge. Upon completion of a workshop, students will
reflect on their experience, having made a unique
artifact—whether tangible, digital, performative or
conceptual.
Workshops touch on subject matter that draws inspiration
from a very wide range of disciplines to reinforce the
value of creativity across all Jefferson colleges.
Experience: Creative Making Workshops
PLAN OF STUDY
Each undergraduate discipline has identified a minimum
of one course that is designated “creativity intensive.”
At Jefferson, creativity is inherent in all disciplines. In
order to highlight the possibility and variety of creativity
throughout the disciplines, creativity skills and processes
are taught in an integrative manner alongside disciplinary
knowledge for application in the profession through
individual and collaborative projects/assignments.
Course: Creativity Intensive Course
PLAN OF STUDY
The Hallmarks Capstone is a required course for all East
Falls undergraduates. Here, students use design thinking,
reflective writing and prototyping strategies to help
envision and plan for meaningful lives after graduation.
Students produce creative projects in a variety of relevant
media in which they communicate their life plans.
Course: Hallmarks Capstone
Creativity is the third most important
future workplace skill for 2020 according
to the World Economic Forum.
PROGRAM INSPIRATION
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