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Class number:
3365
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Title: Create, Invent, Innovate |
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Department: First Year Sem & Colloq |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Graded |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 15 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM, SH - N128 |
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Instructor(s): Marino, Nicholas |
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Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement |
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Note: Creativity, Invention, Innovation: Toys, Games and Rhetoric |
Course Description:
In this first year seminar, students will explore the connections between creativity, invention, innovation, and social progress. Guided by an emphasis on critical inquiry, this seminar delves into the art of problem identification, scoping, and solution preparation, reflecting upon both this history and the transformative future potential, of invention. Through iterative prototyping and interdisciplinary collaboration, students will explore the cognitive and creative processes underlying invention and the diverse forms it takes across different cultures and historical epochs. Through discussions and reflections, we seek to understand how creativity drives innovation and shapes human progress. The seminar culminates in a capstone project where students will present a prototype solution to a contemporary local/global challenge. |