Hi I'm lisa McNair. I teach the Create! course
with doctor Liesl Baum Create! class is an opportunity for
students to take a little bit of time away from
their specific disciplines and start to explore some open problems
spaces. Um We typically begin the semester by helping
them identify a problem space that is important to them.
So getting them to think about as you're walking
through your day, what are your questions? What
are your problems, what are your frustrations? What
are your needs that aren't being met? One example
of a project that students have worked on in the
past is the idea that millennials are not saving money.
And so different teams have looked at ways to
encourage and make it easy for millennials to save money.
But they've also looked at the idea that or
the assumption that saving money isn't necessary. My favorite
part of this class is the interdisciplinary aspects. So
I get to work with students from all different backgrounds
and all different studies, Um even different colleges.
So we're working with industrial designers, graphic designers and
as a business student I'm really get getting to hone
in on my skills. Right now we're working on
creating ease of parking on campus. So we ended
up, I ended up doing [group sounds].
My favorite thing about this class is that the class is actually
really small, there's about 12 to 15 people in
the class. So the class is really interactive and
we do discussions online, we read books for
the discussions and we also get to explore problems in
our lives that we can potentially solve for ourselves as
well as other people.
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