TCB in the Humanities

The above paintings are group projects produced by a visual arts class at LMU in LA. They are on permanent display in the LMU cafeteria. They are a wonderful contribution to an otherwise very bland room. I sometimes wonder whether this kind of group project--which clearly benefits the community, doesn't aspire to any sort of transcendent greatness, and doesn't require genius to produce--couldn't be replicated in a philosophy class. Why not organize an introductory philosophy class around some particular public debate with the goal of producing a group-written paper at the end of the term that clearly lays out the debate and explains why certain positions in it are simply untenable? I think that's a reasonable goal that a group of undergraduates, with sufficient guidance, could produce in a term. Why think that every student, on their own, has to produce a novel contribution to philosophical scholarship on some topic?