ACL 100 — Creative Literacies
This course is an inquiry-driven, creative course through which students will experiment with a range of multidisciplinary methods employed by creative thinkers (e.g., artists, activists, scientists, business leaders, advertisers, educators) and apply those methods to complete creative projects related to the field of literacy and language studies. Students will employ a range of multiliteracy strategies for creative thinking to make visible the processes involved in the acts of observing, imagining, envisioning, innovative problem-solving, and creating. Exploring how individuals use the tools of creativity for purposes of inquiry and creation in a wide range of literacy- and language-based contexts and practices, students will examine the relationship between experience and creative expression (e.g., creation and identity; creation as activist practice; creation as an act of healing). Students will reflect on their processes and explore how creation is also an act of learning.