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Master’s Classes:

**These are 11-week summer courses rather than the regular 15 week schedule. Be prepared for bigger assignments that need to be finished before each class.

MA 6550 Political Economy (3 credits) Dr. Jennifer Jensen. Tuesday, 3:00-5:45 pm.
Classes begin June 4th and run through August 13th.

As human beings, we make millions of choices every day. Why do we make the choices we do? What is involved in these decisions? Political Economy is the study of human action, and human actions stem from our choices and decisions.
The philosophy of economics began with both Biblical and Greek thought and has continued down through the ages to the great split where four economic schools emerged and are still in effect today.
In this course, students will read the writings of great economists of the past followed by writings from thought leaders of all four of the current economic schools. We will discuss major economic principles from macro and microeconomics, supply and demand, inflation, pricing, and government involvement among others. Once we understand these principles and how they relate to human nature, we can understand how human nature works. We will study all aspects of human action at every level of society including the family, community, nation, and the world. As we learn the principles that drive human action, we will become better leaders because we will understand why people make specific choices. Having these skills helps one to gain the ability to forecast the future; really, just understanding the correct principles of human action helps us see life much differently.

MA 6650 Development of Creativity (3 credits) Dr. Daniel Rogers.
Tuesday, 6:15-9:00 pm. Classes begin June 4th and run through August 13th.

This course explores the intellectual history of the concept of creativity extracted from a variety of important texts, which demonstrate its kaleidoscopic and imprecise nature. Throughout history, writers have puzzled over the source of new ideas and processes by which they are brought into being. Often they confuse generative behaviors with their aesthetic evaluations, leading to the conclusion that “creativity” (a relatively new term) is tantamount to a certain caliber of artistic production. Instead, the term might more accurately be applied to a collection of qualities, behaviors, and approaches toward individual contribution rather than to a specific collection of artistic disciplines. 

In this course, students will engage in this great dialogue to craft their own unique position concerning creativity and its associated concepts in the world today. In so doing, this course seeks to accomplish two important objectives. The first is to develop the necessary background to discuss the development of this concept over time. The second is to articulate the value of creativity in the world today and to distinguish it from aesthetics, its more popular conceptual counterpart.