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

New 1 credit course, Reflective Practice, for the fall (sched # 15894)
Social network site to connect students, graduates, faculty of CCT Program (see snapshot, request invitation to join)
Tuesday classes, 602 & 612 have switched times so that 602 meets at 4 and 612 at 7pm
Science in Changing World emphasis in the CCT graduate certificate and M.A.
Pathway for taking the entire CCT M.A. at a distance
• Humor theme for Fall '08 Seminar in Creativity
  
• Latest CCT news bulletin
• Upcoming CCT Community gatherings:
• 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

• 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

• Reflective Practice Group
  

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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