humi essay papers
Possible Topics for the Second
Requirement Paper (7pages)
1. Select an individual
–
an artist, scientist, musician, writer, or
other creative figure
–
and discuss his or her creative process.
You should use primary materials, interviews, and secondary
works to support your ideas. What factors
contributed to their
creative success? Can you identify any particular social or
personal elements that may have been important?
2. Following the same format as above, select an artistic
movement or group of individuals known for a distinctive style
or
type of creative work. This could also be an academic
discipline. Describe the creative process as it applies to this
group, discipline, or artistic movement.
3. Pick a historical period
–
Ancient Greece, Qing Ch
ina,
Modernism, the Renaissance
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and de
scribe the creative forces
at work in that period. What factors helped to s
hape the
creative production during that particular
period?
4. Identify and discuss the latest research on creativity. What
are the most recent ideas concerning the development
and
nature of creativity, and what are the implications of these
findings?
5. Produce a creative work yourself. This may be a poem, a
short story, a painting, or some other form of creative work. In
addition, you must provide an analysis of the creative
process
both in terms of your own experience of being creat
ive and
how you go about this. Your analysis
s
hould discuss
the
process of creativity as we have explored it in the course of the
class.