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MA with Specialization in Creativity Studies
Program Overview
A complex and fast changing world demands new, creative approaches to everything from corporate strategies to household chores.
From schools to big business, the importance of understanding and encouraging creativity has been widely recognized as essential to success in the modern world. A specialization in Creativity Studies allows you to tap into one of the most important movements in business, education, and the arts: the recognition that this is an innovation driven economy.
Creative Studies has direct applications in a variety of areas including the arts, aging, business and government, education, health, peace and conflict resolution, and psychology. It most certainly can have applications in your career.
Depending on your professional goals, you can develop skills in areas such as:
- Working within corporations and other organizations to facilitate organizational creativity.
- Teaching creativity and psychology courses in k-12 schools or colleges
- Professional creativity coaching.
- Leading groups in effective collaborative creativity.
- Researching, writing, and presenting their work.
- Enhancing their own creative ability in both their professional and personal lives
The MA in Psychology with an emphasis on Creativity Studies begins with a view of psychology particularly appropriate to the humanistic tradition, looking at human potential in terms of its broadest and most expansive capacities. Saybrook’s tradition of humanistic studies includes its association with Rollo May who wrote the classic The Courage to Create.
A strong system of thought in humanistic psychology also suggests that people must express themselves creatively to be fully happy and realized, and that creative activities have therapeutic power.
In this program, you will look at where creativity comes from, what encourages it, and how it can be applied to practical, everyday circumstances.
Or, to find out more about if the Creative Studies program is right for you, please email admissions@saybrook.edu or call 800-825-4480.
