INTS 1125 - Creative Problem Solving
3 Credits
Provides information and practice to help students become more effective problem solvers in their academic, career, civic, and personal lives. Students will study findings of current problem-solving research and apply them to ethical and international problems. The course will emphasize creativity, team problem solving, and conflict management as well as the technical heuristics of problem-solving, hypothesis testing, and decision-making.
Major Content Areas
Dealing with systemic problems: 3 weeks Decision-making models (logic-based; consensus-based): 2 weeks Problem-solving applied to international and/or multi-cultural situations: 4 weeks Methods for developing creativity in problem-solving: 2 weeks Personal preferences, values, strengths, and weakness for information-gathering and decision-making: 2 weeks Introduction to problem-solving models: 2 weeks
Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to solve problems in which diversity of cultural, social, religious, and linguistic factors play a significant role Students will be able to analyze specific problems concerning international issues and to articulate the cultural, economic, and political factors that need to be taken into account to frame effective solutions Students will be able to identify and articulate the underlying value dimensions of problems and decisions they encounter on the personal, professional, or civic level and to bring their own articulated values to bear in considering possible solutions
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
09 - Ethical/Civic Resp 08 - Global Perspective
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