Resilience and the Creative Process: Courage, Optimism, Creativity

5 credits

Artistic practice as basis for building resilience. Resilience is an ability to overcome failure by learning from it and applying that lesson to follow-up efforts. Develops a process for self-expression: developing and implementing ideas. Utilizes texts, discussion, theatre exercises, assignments to help students identify obstacles to creativity and create strategies for overcoming those obstacles to become their fullest and most creative selves