Minor in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership

The proposed Minor in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership is for future leaders from any discipline who seek to harness their creativity for the public good, along with those who need training in the theories and methods of creativity and innovation in hopes of becoming pioneers and leaders in their field.

The program offers students the opportunity to develop their core creative capacities: 1) an aptitude to invent and imagine, 2) the expressive agility to communicate an innovation’s advantages and consequences, 3) the dexterity to develop and implement those innovations within their field of choice, and 4) the ability to critically evaluate whether products, practices, and policies positively impact the public good.

The program will be truly interdisciplinary, harnessing the expertise of faculty and knitting together theories and methods from diverse disciplinary threads: art, communication, design, engineering, ethics, media studies, music, organizational and entrepreneurial studies, psychology, political philosophy, public policy, and sociology.

Students integrate the minor with their anchor disciplines through their capstone thesis or creative project. By design, the CEPL minor cannot stand alone and relies upon students’ mastery of their respective disciplines.

Creative Campus Courses

Spring 2012

Creative Campus Course: Humanities 161 Creativity and Crisis
Professors Bruce Barry, Vanessa Beasley, Steven Tepper and Mel Ziegler

Everyday is a new crisis. We are surrounded by global forces that challenge leaders and citizens to live, work, and govern differently. But, do we have the creative capacity to respond to these crises in ways that advance social well being, justice, peace and prosperity? HUM161 will bring together expertise from from sociology, management, communication, and art to explore the fascinating intersection of creativity and crisis.

This one-time spring 2012 course will be team-taught by 4 of Vanderbilt’s top teachers with guest appearances from experts near and far with real world experience managing, reporting and analyzing crises.