Community for Creative Expression

About Community for Creative Expression

Creativity and Innovation Across Disciplines.

The Community for Creative Expression (CCE) challenges students to explore the meaning of creativity and innovation in our world and promotes creativity as a mechanism of expression, activism, leadership and reflection. CCE collaborates with faculty from a wide variety of disciplines to celebrate and explore creativity and expression in diverse forms, including the visual and performing arts, science, business, education, and more!

Great For Students Who ...

• Consider themselves creative and want to learn more about this topic
• Love the arts and/or identify as a visual and/or performing artist
• Are interested in creativity and innovation across a wide variety of academic disciplines
• Love dancing, paint, doodling, music, acting, writing, building, and more

Program + Learning Outcomes

By participating in Community for Creative Expression, students will be able to:

• Articulate what creativity means in their own terms, as it relates to their chosen academic field of study
• Identify diverse ways to engage in “everyday creativity” in order to cultivate creativity as a lifelong practice or vocation
• Demonstrate critical reflection on personal identity and social justice through creative expression
• Appreciate and engage in diverse forms of creative expression: interpersonal (cultural), intrapersonal (journaling), linguistic (writing, speech), spatial (graphic art, design,), music, kinesthetic (body, dance), logical (pattern making, problem-solving), leadership (transformational, improvisational, collective)

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