Critical and Creative Thinking Graduate Program
CCT Community Open House: Spring 2020 Presentations
Monday, May 4, 2020, 5:15pm-10:30pm EDT, and
Thursday, May 7, 2020, 4:00pm-6:30pm EDT
Online in Zoom. Open to the public.
This open house features presentations by students completing the capstone Synthesis project as they finish the MA in Critical and Creative Thinking at University of Massachusetts Boston.
Guests, prospective and current students and others are welcome to join by Zoom web video conference at https://umassboston.zoom.us/j/739227365. Join and leave at any points throughout presentation times. See here for help if unfamiliar with Zoom. No login required.
Note:
This conference will be audio- and video-recorded.
Agenda (to be updated as more information becomes available):
Monday, May 4th - Presentations by students completing capstone Synthesis projects:
- 5:00pm: Welcome and introductions
- 5:15-5:45pm: Nadjia Edwards, Food and Health: Promoting the Importance of Maintaining a Healthy Diet to Minimize Potential Health Risks in Individuals at Greatest Risk (visual aids | recording)
- 5:50-6:20pm: Rachel Greene, Developing an Online Health Community for Autoimmune Disease Patients Through Self-Managed Diet (visual aids | recording)
- 6:25-6:55pm: Margarita Gonzalez-Giraldo, Exploring the foundations of self-leadership to develop and apply the strategies needed for self-efficacy, in the journey of learning to lead oneself before leading others (visual aids)
- 7:00-7:30pm: Cara Tuttle, Designing a toolbox to improve creative output: A guide for cultivating critical, creative, and conceptual thinking skills in an increasingly distracted society (visual aids | recording)
- 7:35-8:05pm: Caitlin Quarrington, The role of play in fostering creativity and purpose (visual aids | recording)
- 8:15-8:45pm: Ali Orsi Davis, Art and Science: Utilizing STEAM to Promote Empathetic Scientific Literacy for Global Citizenship (visual aids | recording)
- 8:50-9:20pm: Alex Domenikos, The Importance of Empathy: A Two-Way Street (visual aids | recording)
- 9:25-9:55pm: Timizay Ruiz Pineda, Culturally Responsive Practices in the IB Diploma Program (visual aids | recording)
- 10:00-10:30pm: Kyle Lemstrom, Argo Navis: A Drifting Circumambulation (visual aids | recording)
Thursday, May 7th - Presentations by students completing semester-long Reflective Practice projects
Recordings (available after the event)
4:00pm: Welcome
- 4:05pm: Russell Suereth, Reflective listening can lead to new ways of interacting with our world (visual aids)
- 4:20pm: Adrian Young, Creativity over Productivity: Getting clear about the motive and goal to produce (visual aids)
- 4:35pm: Niamh O'Donoghue, Stress and Anxiety Management: Being Open and Honest (visual aids)
- 4:50pm: Macy Lam, You Got to Move it! Move It! Becoming a Healthier Macy (visual aids)
- 5:05pm: break
- 5:15pm: Lisa Knittle, Keeping Up With Lisa (visual aids)
- 5:30pm: Danielle Gabrielli, Being Elle Woods in a World of Warners (visual aids)
- 5:45pm: Erin McCoy, Unexpected leadership: engaging with reflective practices during a time of crisis management (visual aids)
- 6:00pm: Kate Mills, How a lot of meditation led me to reflecting on change (visual aids)