ARTICULATION DOCUMENT
T201 Creative Concepts
MODULE STRUCTURE
Module Category: Discipline
Level (year of study): Year 1
Credit Units: 4 Modular Credits
Curriculum Hours: Total 90
Contact Hours: 60 over 15 weeks (4 hours per week)
Module Assessment: Continuous Assessment: <60%>
- 15 Daily Grades
Summative Assessment: <40%>
Understanding Test 1: 25% out of 40%
Understanding Test 2: 25% out of 40%
Understanding Test 3: 50% out of 40%
(All Understanding Tests were open book and online)
SECTION 2: MODULE OVERVIEW
Module Description
This module is designed to help students understand the function of creativity and its
application, not only as a form of personal expression, but as a means of affecting the
environment and society at large; whether through stories, concepts, inventions or artistic
endeavours.
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Emphasis will be given to two areas; developing a sense of self-awareness through personal
motivation in artistic expression, and cultivating a personal process by which students can
develop original concepts that are rich, imaginative, and meaningful, and upon which all
types of creative expressions can effectively and confidently be built.
As the module seeks to create an environment where creativity is fluid and second nature,
students will be challenged to explore and experiment with what is known and accepted,
and through that experience, re-define their personal agenda and approach to artistic
expression.
MODULE OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
The purpose of this module is to encourage and facilitate the developmental process of creative
concept. In this module, students will:
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Recognize that creativity is not only the domain of a selected few, but that it is a
natural and essential part of what it is to be human.
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Gain a better understanding of one’s own drives and motivations, and be able to see
them as a source for meaningful creative expression.
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Develop the ability to express one’s creative point of view with clarity and
effectiveness.
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Recognize that the development of one’s own creative abilities is an on-going and
lifelong process, an evolution, a way of seeing the world.
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Understand that creativity involves some form of risk-taking and challenging the
known and expected.
Develop a personal understanding of oneself and others, so that one’s own creative
expression can be more original, effective, and meaningful.
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The following concepts will help students develop methods in developing creativity.
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Become aware of the influence of the senses on one’s creative expression.
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Become aware of the influence of emotions on one’s own creative expression.
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Understand the role and importance of contrast in creative expression.
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Recognize that creative originality draws from one’s own personal experiences and
that the product of our creativity is the result of our background, culture and
generation.
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Recognize that creativity is an innate drive in human beings to address needs and
express them in physical form.
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Recognize that beliefs are relative and personal and that creativity is a pursuit of
one’s own personal beliefs.
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Appreciate the creative contributions that can arise from chance and change.
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Understand the role and importance of conscious choice in creative expression, and
the need to exercise this choice throughout the creative process and not just the
easiest or most obvious option.
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Understand how limitations can stimulate creativity.
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Understand that the richness in creativity comes from attention to details, in the
process of creation and experience.
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Understand the role and importance of underlying theme in creative expression.
Allocated time per day
Module Coverage
Discussions in
Study Cluster
1. Who am I?
Gain a deeper awareness of the role
of identity and perception as a key
platform for creative exploration
and processing.
2. Sensory Awareness
• Recognize and describe the extent
of sensorial influence on the
effectiveness of one’s creative
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gathering
and team
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Skills acquisition
and practice
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expression;
• Demonstrate how sensory
awareness can be heightened by
drawing attention to details;
• Construct an environment that is
engaging and accessible to the
targeted audience.
3. Emotional Awareness
• Recognise and understand the
power of human emotion in
creative expression;
• Develop ways to apply emotion in
one’s own creative work to make
it more powerful and effective.
4. Personal Experience as the Basis
of Creative Expression
• Recognize that creative originality
can be drawn from one’s own
personal experiences;
• Identify how Culture, Society and
generation could have an
influence on our creativity;
• Apply ideas drawn from these
personal experiences into an
integrated work.
5. Contrast
• Develop a stronger understanding
on how contrast can be utilized in
creative explorations.
• Understand the role and
importance of contrast in creative
expression.
• Define the role of contrast as a
useful platform to creatively
challenge one’s perceptions and
opinions.
6. Risk Taking
• Understand that creativity
involves some form of risk-taking
and challenging the known and
expected.
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• Recognize that creativity is an
innate drive in human beings to
address needs and express them in
physical form.
• Develop the ability to express
one’s creative point of view with
clarity and effectiveness.
• Gain a better understanding of
one’s own drives and motivations,
and be able to see them as a
source for meaningful creative
expression.
7. Conscious Choice in Creative
Expression
• Understand the role and
importance of conscious choice in
creative expression, and the need
to exercise this choice throughout
the creative process and not just
the easiest or most obvious
option.
• Recognize that creative originality
draws from one’s own personal
experiences and that the product
of our creativity is the result of our
background, culture and
generation.
8. Cause & Conviction (formerly
‘Belief’)
• Gain a better understanding of
one’s own drives and motivations,
and be able to see them as a
source for meaningful creative
expression through art and design.
• Develop a means by which one’s
own beliefs can be translated into
effective and unique creative selfexpression.
• Recognize that one’s belief and
conviction to certain causes are
relative and personal.
• Explore ways in which beliefs/
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expression.
This Problem Trigger fulfils RP’s
Character & Citizenship Education
(CCE) requirement.
9. Think Outside the Box
• Recognize that creativity is an
innate drive in human beings to
address needs and express them in
physical form.
• Recognize that creativity (and the
need to make and create) is a
natural and essential part of being
human.
• Understand how limitations can
stimulate creativity.
10. Think Within the Box
• Understand how limitations can
stimulate creativity.
• Develop the ability to express
one’s creative point of view with
clarity and effectiveness.
11. Chance & Creativity
• Evaluate the creative
contributions/implications of
CHANCE (randomness).
• Understand the role and
importance of having CONTROL
over one’s conscious choice in
creative expression, and the need
to exercise this choice throughout
the creative process.
• Apply use of CHANCE in their
work; choices they made to allow
the degree of randomness in their
creative expressions.
12. Culture and Generation as the
basis of Creative Expression
• Develop a personal understanding
of oneself and others, so that
one’s own creative expression can
be more original, effective, and
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meaningful.
• Recognize that the product of our
creativity is the result of our
background, culture and
generation.
• Consider what cultural/national
identity means to them and how it
can be expressed visually.
• Challenges students to be creative
and express their individuality
through their interpretation
• Reflect seriously upon a concept
and draw inspiration from it, i.e.
national identity
• Recognise the difference between
cultural & national identity
• Identify traits
Others (e.g. National Education), if
any
N.E. - Students will need to reflect
about aspects of culture, traditions,
beliefs, and government efforts that
help to establish or question
Singapore’s national & cultural
identity.
13. Creating Concepts 1
• Apply use of appropriate creativity
tools to help generate ideas.
• Evaluate plans and adapt ideas in
developing better concepts;
• Adapt ideas to suit a specific
target audience;
• Observe visual references, and
apply them to actual design of
mock-up;
• Understand that the richness in
creativity comes from attention to
details.
14. Creating Concepts 2
• Evaluate plans and adapt ideas in
developing better concepts;
• Adapt ideas to suit a target
audience of youth;
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• Understand that the richness in
creativity comes from attention to
details.
• Understand that the richness in
creativity comes from attention to
details.
15. Presentation
and
Module
Review
• Understand that the richness in
creativity comes from attention to
details.
• Develop the ability to express
one’s creative point of view with
clarity and effectiveness.
Total = 15 Problems = 90 hours
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TEACHING AND LEARNING
The module is predominantly delivered through a problem based learning style curriculum.
Students are routinely required to conduct appropriate research, discussions and presentations
as a team. This module inspires and nurtures creative expression, in terms of both form and
content. Students are given practical activities to do during class, which will in turn help them
to understand the artistic and creative concepts covered for the day.
To motivate the students, some classes are held out of the classrooms. For example, visits to
museums and watching performances.
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