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COVID-19 pandemic; creative ability; theme-based curriculum; livinglearning community; Widener University (PA)—Honors Program
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Creativity In The Age Of Covid: Honors Comes “Home”, Ilene D. Lieberman
Creativity In The Age Of Covid: Honors Comes “Home”, Ilene D. Lieberman
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This essay explores the conceptual and practical implications of an honors forum relating to artful expression and the phenomenon of sequester in place (SIP). As monthly general education offerings for first-year students, Honors Forums feature an array of thematic events associated with the freshman cohort. Noting challenges relating to remote instruction, social distancing, and general anxiety as well as the consequent effects on the typical first-year experience, the author, an art historian, presents a novel response to COVID constraints through communal, creative expression. A visual and textual curriculum helps bring students together, mitigate pandemic-related anxieties, and introduce the honors living-learning …