ARTP 270 - Online ACE 7 Course for BOTH Summer 2020 and Fall 2020
The ARTP: Computational Creativity course is three credit hours, ACE 7, and is an elective for the Digital Humanities, Informatics, and Music Technology Minors as well as a studio elective for Art majors. The core of this course is a suite of Computational Creativity exercises which combine computational thinking (logical, methodical thinking) and creative thinking (flexible, imaginative thinking) to make students better problem solvers in any discipline. Students also hone their collaborative and process skills.
This course has no prerequisites and is open to anyone. While aimed at lower division students, there is ample opportunity for upper division students to push themselves, and these students have also benefited from the course. Course exercises are based on principled, thoughtful designs, revised after classroom deployments, and shown though evidence-based research (funded by the NSF) to improve learning and performance.
In the final project, students use computational and creative thinking to design and document a “tool” to solve a real-life problem of their choosing. Students’ innovative responses include an ice-melting shoe, a (beneficial) backseat driver, a consumer audio compressor device, and a smart-controlled agriculture system.