Arts Entrepreneurship Minor

Program Description

The Arts Entrepreneurship minor provides a learning framework for students from any discipline to develop their skills in creative problem solving, strategic imagination, communication, leadership and organization in order to support their development of sustainable and self-directed lives as artists, designers, entrepreneurs, and/or leaders in cultural and social change.   

Program Requirements

1. Total credit hours required: 15 credit hours (at least 6 beyond the General Education 30-credit core)
   1. Courses accepted to fulfill the 15-credit hour requirement:
      1. 1. Required (3 credits):  ARE 1000: Introduction to Arts Entrepreneurship- Designing Your Life -or- ARM 1000: Introduction to Arts Management 
         2. Required (6-9 credits) At least two 3-credit courses with the ARE or ARM prefix.  
         3. Required (3-6 credits) Up to two courses from this list of preapproved DLA courses with a maximum of 1 WRI course. *
            1. HIS 2800 Arts and Democracy 
            2. COM 1100   Public Speaking 
            3. WRI 2510 Letters   
            4. WRI 2520 Writing for your Profession 
            5. WRI 2520 Interviews 
               
               
2. Additional courses within in the Art schools that fulfill the intention of the Minor may be accepted in partial fulfillment of this requirement, upon preapproval of the Dean and/or Minor Coordinator. (maximum of 6 credits allowed)
3. Requests for consideration of pre approved transfer credits from other accredited educational institutions that meet the spirit of the program’s goals may be considered as counting toward fulfillment of the Minor’s requirements, with the approval of the Dean and/or Minor Coordinator. (maximum of 3 credits allowed)