Creativity, Innovation, and Vision

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Critically analyze claims, arguments, artifacts or information

• Recognize your innate creative potential and its role in an enhanced quality of life.

• Appreciate the role of courage in coming up with and implementing new ideas and approaches in entrepreneurial problem-solving.

• Describe the creative and innovative processes helpful in understanding the ways in which Individuals interact with society.

• Discuss the practice of entrepreneurial thinking in a larger social context.

• Analyze, synthesize, and evaluate current events and popular culture that have an impact on the creativity/innovation/visioning processes.

• Construct coherent, evidence-based arguments

• Present an understanding of creativity and innovation in a global context with a focus on the changing economy and entrepreneurial thinking.

• Explicate historical and current innovative ideas and how these ideas have an impact on individuals and their roles in society.

• Invent or experiment with a project that shows the student’s understanding of creativity and innovation to become more visionary.

• Apply frameworks and tools that will improve individual, team, and organizational creativity.

• Evaluate how to turn creative ideas into tangible outcomes through developing a vision.

• Complete course projects using the library, web, and human resources that will support the development of innovative ideas.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Tests (Test #1-6)	42 points
Innovation Activities (Innovation Activity 1-6)	28 points
Innovation Activity 7	10 points
Final Exam	20 points

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
≥ 93.0%	A
90.0-92.9%	A-
87.0-89.9%	B+
83.0-86.9%	B
80.0-82.9%	B-
77.0-79.9%	C+
73.0-76.9%	C
70.0-72.9%	C-
60.0-69.9%	D
<60.0%	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance is required in ENT 201-01, as active participation in class discussions, activities, assignments, and assessments is an essential component of the course. Students who are unable to attend class due to a documented medical or legal circumstance must provide appropriate documentation to the instructor for consideration in accordance with course and university policies. Failure to attend class may negatively affect a student’s participation grade, in-class assignment grades, and grades for tests or other assessments administered during the missed class period.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

There are no textbooks. Instead, assigned readings will be designated Canvas during each course module.

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