Program: Creative Work Minor - University of Houston

Apr 08, 2025

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

The Honors College > Creative Work Minor

This is an academic, interdisciplinary minor that examines the important role of creativity across all disciplines and professions. The aim of the minor is to inspire innovative practices, thinking, and research, and to enrich students’ personal growth and learning, by encountering the familiar through creative perspectives and experiences.  The minor is open to all UH students regardless of major.

The curriculum explores the practices associated with the creative process and its many modalities of expression and implementation, including the arts and literature, and the ways these can complement, inform, and reshape practices associated with business, politics, law, medicine, science, family, religion, and other social and cultural institutions. It also includes co-curricular partnerships with community organizations, as well as with other colleges and departments across the university.

Minor Requirements

Credit hours required for this minor: 18.0

Foundational Courses

HON 3310 - Creativity at Work Credit Hours: 3

Capstone Course

One 4000-level capstone course*:

HON 4315 - Artists at Work Credit Hours: 3.0

Electives

12 additional elective hours must be taken, of which a minimum of 6 credit hours must be advanced, and may be selected from the following approved list for the minor:

AAS 3301 - Hip Hop History and Culture Credit Hours: 3
CHIN 3350 - Chinese Culture Through Films Credit Hours: 3
CLAS 3380 - Epic Masculinity Credit Hours: 3
CLAS 3381 - From Homer To Hollywood Credit Hours: 3
ENGL 3367 - Gay and Lesbian Literature Credit Hours: 3
GERM 3364 - Writing Holocausts Credit Hours: 3
HON 3311 - Creative Cities Credit Hours: 3
HON 3312 - Immersion Journalism Credit Hours: 3.0
HON 3313 - Nations and Imaginations Credit Hours: 3
HON 3314 - Research and Writing in the Humanities Credit Hours: 3
HON 3397 - Honors Selected Topics Credit Hours: 3
ITAL 3306 - Italian Cinema Credit Hours: 3
ITAL 3309 - Women Writers & Filmmakers of Modern Italy Credit Hours: 3
ITAL 4308 - Dante and His World Credit Hours: 3
MAS 3341 - Mexican American Experience Through Film Credit Hours: 3.0
MUSI 3303 - Pop Music of Americas Sn 1840 Credit Hours: 3
PHIL 3361 - Philosophy of Art Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 2351 - World Cultures Thru Lit & Arts Credit Hours: 3
WCL 3373 - Gender and Sexuality in World Film Credit Hours: 3
WCL 4367 - Voices from Exile and Diaspora Credit Hours: 3

Additional Academic Requirements

A minimum of 12 hours must be taken in residence.
A 3.0 or higher cumulative GPA in all courses used to fulfill minor requirements is required for graduation.
Up to 6 elective credit hours may be satisfied by an internship with a local arts organization or by a Senior Honors Thesis with advanced approval of the minor program director.
A maximum of 6 semester hours of completed minor coursework may be counted toward a student’s major. Note that any course that counts toward a student’s major and toward the Core Curriculum cannot also count toward the 18 semester hours required for the minor.
*Another 4000-level course may satisfy the capstone requirement with approval of the minor program director. The default capstone course (HON 4315) may count as an elective if another capstone course is completed, with approval of the minor program director, to fulfill the capstone requirement.

Contact

Robert Cremins, Director, Creative Work: A Pre-Professional Program

rpcremins@uh.edu