Creative Process
in New Mexico

Welcome to the course website for "Creative Process in New Mexico,” an undergraduate Honors course taught by Professor Leslie Donovan for the Honors College at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, USA. This site provides students with access to general information about our course and specific resources to aid them in excelling in the course. From the navigation menu on the top right, students in the program may access private pages restricted to students in the course.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
From its enchanting landscapes to our vivid cultural traditions, New Mexico captivates and inspires the imaginations of artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, dancers, and other creative workers. In this course, you will learn communication skills for representing, analyzing, and synthesizing ideas about vibrant stories and images from many different fields. Using interdisciplinary approaches and methods, we will develop tools to communicate not only about individual creative works by contemporary New Mexicans, but also about how we perceive the creative process itself, the nature of creativity, and the role creativity plays in social and global change. We will apply multiple modes of communication to perspectives on creativity that reflect social and cultural history, landscapes and human involvement in them, technological developments in creative industries, the psychology of creative will and process, business practices of creative workers, aesthetics of illustrative and abstract visual art, among others. Our goal will be to enhance our understanding of the myriad ways creativity informs contemporary life in our state as well as its influence in New Mexico’s future.