Creativity education has been offered as the importance of creative human resources and its boosting policies are being emphasized. Universities and colleges are also focusing on developing the creativity competency of their students by opening creati...
Creativity education has been offered as the importance of creative human resources and its boosting policies are being emphasized. Universities and colleges are also focusing on developing the creativity competency of their students by opening creativity classes but can not present logical explanation on why and how.
This study analyzes the needs of university and college students for creativity competency based on which how creativity curriculum can be developed and operated. This study did survey on undergraduate students to collect data on current level and importance level of their creativity competency and collected meaningful 239 samples. Based on the analytic result of those samples, this study generated their needs priority of creativity competency. The result shows that students feel that competencies of perceptive and emotional domains should be taken as a priority to improve their creativity. Especially higher thinking competency, extensive thinking competency and problem solving competency in perceptive domain and task immersion competency, emotional competency and curiosity competency are included in most-needed priority list.
Based on the result, this study suggests that students’ creativity levels and needs should be applied when the development of creativity curriculum are considered and provides the implication on its operation.