Creative Scholars Program

Honing your writing skills requires two major elements: reading a lot and writing a lot. In this course, students will immerse themselves in their own writing, their peers’ writing, and published writing. We will closely examine fiction and poetry (and some things in between), discussing how we as readers react to writing and how writers achieve those effects. To develop original writing, students will respond to writing prompts, give and receive feedback in class workshops, and meet with their instructor in one-on-one conferences to talk about potential revisions. This course will center on growth: no matter how much our students know about writing when they enter, they will learn more about the craft when they leave. Genre-writing is welcome; in fact, we will talk about genre a great deal, from fairy tale poetry to ghost stories. Alongside all this vigorous writing and reading, we will spend time in some of UGA’s most inspiring spaces, taking trips through the campus’ gardens and museums and identifying how these experiences can change our writing practices. This course will culminate in a revised portfolio of students’ favorite written pieces, along with a few reflections on how they can carry what they have learned into their future writing.

Instructor: Hannah V. Warren

This course provides a fast-paced, hands-on experience in how to develop an apparel product for customers and take it to market! Students will find inspiration, collaborate, and critically evaluate the nuances pertaining to product design, production, marketing, and sales. They also will also have the chance to use some of UGA’s incredible maker spaces, tools, and resources! The goal of the course will be to move students quickly from ideation to a final product so not only will they leave with a tangible product, they also will leave knowing how to start their own business.

Instructor: Amy Manley

Go beyond reality! Students in this course will have the chance to explore the cutting edge of technology as it seeks to entertain, educate, and explore far beyond what we see around us. Students will learn the concepts and underlying technology that goes into VR/AR content, its possibilities, and the myriad of ways it can be applied in both practical and theoretical fields. They will learn how VR/AR works at the psychological level to pull them into a world of someone else’s (or their own) making.

Instructor: Yulong Wang