FMCC Creativity and Access to Knowledge Questions

1. Csikszentmihalyi asserts that access to domains on knowledge and fields of experts are vital to instances of creativity. Explain your level of agreement with this assertion and describe ways to increase access to domains of knowledge and fields of experts. In your opinion, whose responsibility is it to grant and ensure continued access and why

2. Select one of the following questions to answer fully: Please only select one not all three to answer:

• What aspects of dimensions of culture are of most interest to you?
• Describe effective cross-cultural communications.
• Why is cultural competence important?

3. This week we narrow our focus on the link: Philadelphia’s health data. Select a topic on the website that is of particular interest to you. Explain how this topic pertains to public health or epidemiology.

4. The Philadelphia Department of Health publishes reports on a variety of what they classify as under-reported or under-appreciated public health issues. Select the CHART site, choose one of the six volumes and summarize the topic and the data results. Attach a copy of the report to your discussion. Do not select a report topic that one of your classmates has selected.