Creative
Thinking in the Professional Setting
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Course Description
This course explores the nature, function, and purposes
of creative thinking especially as it is applied in a professional
setting. The primary purpose of the course is to bring out
some of the most important aspects of creative thinking as
it can help social service professionals to address the sorts
of problems that they frequently confront. We will pay particularly
close attention to factors that interfere with creative thinking
and to ways that this interference may be removed.
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Learning Objectives
Participants who complete this course should be able to:
- Identify and explain crucial features of creative thinking
- Explain the relationship between creative thinking and critical
thinking
- Describe general ways in which creative thinking and critical
thinking apply to real life problems
- Identify obstacles/barriers to creative thinking
- Identify ways to remove these obstacles/barriers
- Apply creative thinking techniques to specific problems
Bibliography and suggestions for further
reading
Adams, James L. Conceptual Blockbusting
- a Guide to Better Ideas. New York: W. W. Norton,
1979.
Black, Max. The Prevalence of Humbug
and Other Essays. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University
Press, 1982.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland (1865) and Through
the Looking-Glass (1871). (Many editions available.)
Copi, Irving M. and Carl Cohen. Introduction
to Logic. 11th edition. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall,
2002.
Pirie, Madsen. The Handbook of the Fallacy.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.
Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1967.
Film: West Side Story. Directed
by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. Music by Leonard Bernstein.
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Screenplay by Ernest Lehman. Based
on the stage play; book by Arthur Laurents. Mirisch Pictures, 1961;
on MGM/UA Home Video.
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