Fostering creativity in university education

The continuous increase of the significance of the scientific-technical development is being projected ever outstandingly into the demands for the creative abilities of university graduates particularly of the technical ones. University teachers face a challenging task of teaching students not only to acquire and understand new knowledge, but also to develop their ability for creative work; to succeed in doing that the university teacher must have a certain set of skills in creative activities. The introduction of university teachers to the problems of creativity can be carried out within the framework of the proposed mini-course "Introduction to Creativity". The article presents the structure of the mini-course that serves as an introduction to the science of creativity, its content is given.