Upcoming Course in Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts

Here is the outline (attached below) for the upcoming IDEA course planned for Spring of 2009 (IDEA 4100). Feel free to review and comment.

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I like that in the intro there was an immediate mention of looking at academic and career directions, meaning students will be able to go forward with purpose and more directed vision for the possibilities available for their fields of interest.

I’ve read a couple chapters from David Bohm’s book “On Creativity” its excellent and seems totally relevant to this course and life in general. Its a good one, very interesting and thought-provoking. I think its a really good 4th year book, lots of content with depth and needing a good amount of time to sieve through the material. I am not familiar with most of the other books included but they appear very intriguing, especially those that focus on art as therapy and medicine.

I also like the idea of having labs and field experience. Hands on is always a good learning mode, practical, personal and up close and real. I like how the course seems to have an all-encompassing community feel to it. I’m really very interested to see how this goes and hope it continues on. Disappointed that I won’t be able to take in this coming year.

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The career direction focus is going to be quite important. Most students in the class will be looking forward either to grad school or to employment somewhere within the cultural sector (professional arts, publishing, theatre, film, etc.); so it’s going to be important to offer opportunities to explore various choices in concrete ways.

…Yup, David Bohm was a pretty neat guy.

kindergarten for adults, I like it.
After sorting through the multisyllabic words, I think this will be lovely.

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Yes indeed, kindergarten for adults. After all, isn’t that what education should be — play, fun, insight, contact, development…