By Rachel Chaikof
In her Introduction to Psychology courses, professor Trina Brown, Ph.D., asked her students to create a short illustrated children’s book based on their own evaluations of their dreams.
At the beginning of the quarter, Brown said, she asked students to record their nightly dreams in a dream log for the first few weeks of the course. Then at midterm, the students each selected a dream they felt best represented some aspect of their lives. They used the events, images, emotions and ideas from that dream to create a children’s book. Students used a variety of media, including digital video and mixed media.
Brown said the project was a supplement to a more theoretical discussion about the research of dreams. It gave students a chance apply psychological concepts to their lives and to integrate the concepts with their understanding of art and design, which are both key learning outcomes for the course, she said.
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