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Creative thinking is both the capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking. Creative thinking in higher education can only be expressed productively within a particular domain. The student must have a strong foundation in the strategies and skills of the domain in order to make connections and synthesize. While demonstrating solid knowledge of the domain's parameters, the creative thinker, at the highest levels of performance, pushes beyond those boundaries in new, unique, or atypical recombinations, uncovering or critically perceiving new syntheses and using or recognizing creative risk-taking to achieve a solution. Courtesy of AAC&U: http://aacu.org/value/index.cfm

The article may be either a news story or a piece of investigative journalism.

The article may be either a news story or a piece of investigative journalism.

Fiction Writing. Students must plan and write a short story based on an illustration. Students must use their proofreading and editing skills, as well as their knowledge of the plot pyramid (beginning, middle, climax, end)

This rubric will be used to grade Part 1 of the Program Evaluation manuscript. This is basically the progam evaluaiton research proposal, i.e., what you PLAN to do if approved.