Critical & Creative Thinking | Summer 2010 Graduate Credit Courses

Cat. No./Title	Instructor	Dates	Location	Days	Time	Cr	Class No.	Fee	Register
Certificate Program: Critical and Creative Thinking
Summer 2010 registration is closed.
CRCRTH601 Critical Thinking	J Szteiter	Jul 19 - Aug 5	W-1-019 Wheatley Bldg - 1st Floor - Room 019	MTuWTh	1p - 4p	3	1988	$1335	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for CRCRTH601: This course explores issues about the nature and techniques of critical thought, viewed as a way to establish a reliable basis for our claims, beliefs, and attitudes about the world. We explore multiple perspectives, placing established facts, theories, and practices in tension with alternatives to see how things could be otherwise. Views about observation and interpretation, reasoning and inference, valuing and judging, and the production of knowledge in its social context are considered. Special attention is given to translating what is learned into strategies, materials, and interventions for use in students’ own educational and professional settings. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Fee: Course Fee: $1335 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $1335
CRCRTH612 Seminar in Creativity	S Clark	Jun 1 - Aug 26	Online	-	-	3	1360	$1335	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for CRCRTH612: This course delves deeply into the theory and practice of promoting creativity, using a specific theme, such as invention and innovation, humor, realizing creative aspiration, building creative communities, as a focus for the readings, discussions, class activities, and semester-long students projects. The course materials, which are drawn from a variety of sources to match the instructors specialty, student interests, and evolving trends in the literature, include biographies, intellectual histories, psychological studies, educational research, the popular media, guest speakers, and outside mentors. Details for the specific semester are publicized in advance by the Program. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Fee: Course Fee: $1335 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $1335
CRCRTH618 Creative Thinking, Collaboration, and Organizational Change	A Yanow	Jul 16 - Jul 31	W-1-019 Wheatley Bldg - 1st Floor - Room 019	FSa	9a - 4:15p	3	1052	$1335	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for CRCRTH618: Through interactive, experiential sessions and structured assignments, students learn critical and creative approaches to working in organizations. Skills addressed include: communication and team-building; facilitation of participation and collaboration in groups; promotion of learning from a diversity of perspectives; problem-finding and solving; and reflective practice. Students apply these skills to situations that arise in business, schools, social change groups, and other organizations with a view to taking initiative and generating constructive change. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Fee: Course Fee: $1335 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $1335
CRCRTH619 Biomedical Ethics	M Robinson	Jul 19 - Aug 5	Online	-	-	3	1939	$1335	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for CRCRTH619: This course develops students’ critical thinking about dilemmas in medicine and health care policy, such as those that arise around allocation of scarce resources, criteria for organ transplants, informed consent, experimentation on human subjects, AIDS research, embryo research and selective termination of pregnancy, euthanasia, and physician-assisted suicide. Through such cases the course introduces methods in moral reasoning, rights-based reasoning, decision-making under uncertainty, and utilitarianism in classic and contemporary normative reasoning. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Fee: Course Fee: $1335 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $1335