Psychology of Creativity and of Writing

Course Description

By enabling thoughts to be externalized onto paper or some other medium, the technology of writing-and-reading brought into being a new phase of human creativity. Every technology has a part that is external together with a part that is internal which consists of skills of how to use the external part. These skills have enabled an augmentation of human abilities to think and create. Students study the history and development of writing, as well as the psychology of creativity in arts, sciences, and applied activities such as publishing. They develop their own expertise in a writing project that goes through several stages to increase creativity. They learn about the concerns and working methods of creative writers of fiction and non-fiction, and about creativity in organizations. At each meeting there is a section of a creativity-training program that will include exercises to increase creativity.