The course is an introduction to computational creativity, with focus on linguistic creativity. It explores the middle ground between the worlds of human and machine creativity, covering both analysis and production of such creative linguistic aspects as metaphor. Course books: (1) Tony Veale: Hand-made by machines, available at http://robotcomix.com. and (2) Tony Veale. Exploding the creativity myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity. Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.