Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking using critical and creative thinking to develop reflective practice as we change our schools, workplaces, and lives

Overview of CCT and Student Handbook

• An overview of CCT and its mission, and all students need to know about joining and moving through the program (PDF version)
• The impact of CCT on its students or What does one do with a CCT degree?
• Stories conveyed to Chancellor Collins, Fall 2005

News, Activities, Outreach, and Links beyond CCT's formal Programs of Study

News and current info

• Looking Out For Each Other: Thinking Our Way Through an Economic Funk, December 15, McCormack 2-628C, 6:30-8:30pm, Open to all in the CCT Community and friends
• Latest CCT news bulletin
• Registration has started for Winter & Spring courses, including electives on Dialogue, Problem-based learning, and Gifted & Talented Education. (non-matriculated student registration info)
  
  
• Social network site to connect students, graduates, faculty of CCT Program (see snapshot, request invitation to join)
  
• Science in Changing World emphasis in the CCT graduate certificate and M.A.
  
• Pathway for taking the entire CCT M.A. at a distance
• INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION with U. Exeter for thesis & synthesis students
  
• Students in other Masters programs can count CCT courses they have taken to count also for the CCT certificate.
• Excerpt from Graduate Bulletin for 06-08
  
• Updated publicity brochure about CCT
  
• Outreach to recruit students to CCT
  
• CCT students and graduates -- Apply by April 1st or November 1st to the Delores Gallo Fund to support your creative outreach efforts, e.g., to enrich your classrooms with special materials and guests.
  
• How to sign up for Email News from CCT and how to post messages.

Activities and developments around CCT

• New 1 credit course, Reflective Practice, for fall 08 & spring 09
  
• Open House (CCT Network), Wednesday October 1. Our Lives and Other Worlds II: Visual Images and Reflections from Graduates of CCT
  
• CCT Network Event, 5 September 2008,"Reflecting and Connecting for Lifelong Learning"
  
• Past activities (archive)
• Creative Thinking at Work certificate focus took off in 2006-7 with addition of 4 online sections to the regular offerings
• Evolving Wiki for CCT
  
• Recent news of current and former students
• Reports from On-line courses
• Compilation of Email Bulletins of News from CCT
• 7-year (AQUAD) review of CCT and follow up.

Outreach and extension, based in CCT

• CCT Network -- monthly events connecting alums, current students, CCT associates, and other guests
  

Resources & Links further afield

• CCT in graphics, powerpoint slides by Bertha Lucia Fries
• A Survey of Creativity Courses at Universities in Principal Countries
• Thinking for Change Fieldbook, work in development (PDF version) (being transferred to the CCT wiki)
  
• Enhancing diversity in CCT
• Bibliography of Critical and Creative Thinking and Reflective Practice (in development)
• Links to allied organizations and projects
  
• Education for Sustainability at UMass Boston
  
• Science, Technology, and Values at UMass Boston
  

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