{"id":83621,"date":"2023-06-22T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sou.edu\/academics\/?page_id=83621"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:58:24","slug":"creativity-innovation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sou.edu\/academics\/general-education\/capacities\/creativity-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity and Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-d2yvlb9-c8f58d7d3255063bd677736d2dabf83f\">\n.avia-section.av-d2yvlb9-c8f58d7d3255063bd677736d2dabf83f{\nbackground-color:#f3f3f3;\nbackground-image:unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1' aria-label='SOU UGS University Studies - Explorations Page - Intro Section' class='avia-section av-d2yvlb9-c8f58d7d3255063bd677736d2dabf83f main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_submenu  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll 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class=\"heavy-man\">What:<\/span> The capacity for Creativity &amp; Innovation equips learners to produce meaning and value for an audience, develop and apply imaginative solutions to complex problems, and incorporate feedback in an ongoing and iterative improvement process. 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Creative thinking incorporates multiple perspectives to solve durable challenges that resist easy answers while continuously improving on those solutions in response to new information.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-83qzi2t-07c5f9419d078779021e78a8f3af5f74\">\n#top .hr.av-83qzi2t-07c5f9419d078779021e78a8f3af5f74{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:20px;\n}\n.hr.av-83qzi2t-07c5f9419d078779021e78a8f3af5f74 .hr-inner{\nwidth:100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-83qzi2t-07c5f9419d078779021e78a8f3af5f74 hr-custom  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_heading  hr-center hr-icon-no'><span class='hr-inner inner-border-av-border-thin'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-ljd7k8lq-117df18c64b81e0e00bfe3e109b2b247\">\n#top 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el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_textblock  av-inherit-size'><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  ><span class=\"heavy-man\">Creativity and Innovation Capacity<\/span><\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-ljd7qtvb-325403a3fd78d473d2a6745c8f9e55ab '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"heavy-man grow-bro dig-4\">Recognize opportunities to apply creative processes to address, respond to, or solve a need, problem, or challenge.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Survey the social, cultural, commercial, or scholarly landscape to observe gaps that new ideas can fill.<\/li>\n<li>Understand the interests of audiences and users.<\/li>\n<li>Synthesize prior creative, intellectual, or professional inspiration and context that might inform new creative or innovative solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the relative scale and complexity of challenges that lend themselves to creative solutions (including wicked problems).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"heavy-man grow-bro dig-4\">Identify the intention and describe the value of their own innovative work or solution.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Express the objectives of the creative or innovative process.<\/li>\n<li>Advocate for the artifact or solution via diverse channels of communication.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate clear and purposeful organizational structure expressing ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"heavy-man grow-bro dig-4\">Execute creative and innovative projects and solutions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Propose innovative ideas for solving strategic problems or expressing personal creative inspiration.<\/li>\n<li>Assess available resources needed to accomplish specific creative or strategic initiatives.<\/li>\n<li>Connect with social networks, institutions, or other collaborative partners to accomplish creative or strategic initiatives.<\/li>\n<li>In the absence of clear guidelines, undertake plans and prototypes and work out the first steps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"heavy-man grow-bro dig-4\">Iteratively improve their creative and innovative ideas based on feedback from others.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Determine and apply appropriate means for assessing the success or failure of creative or strategic work.<\/li>\n<li>Respond to self-critique, external critique, and audience participation with iterative improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Adapt plans and prototypes to changing conditions and unexpected outcomes, and resume progress following preliminary failures or dead ends.<\/li>\n<li>Complete the iterative learning cycle to yield a creative artifact or solution for others&#8217; appreciation, consumption, or use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" 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