Arts Entrepreneurship, Undergraduate Certificate

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About the Arts Entrepreneurship Minor/Certificate

The Arts Entrepreneurship Minor/Certificate seeks to educate students about the management process that artists use to create artistic, social, and economic value. Students will learn how to build creative partnerships and networks among artists, audiences, communities, businesses, teachers, and students. They will learn how to become self-directed business owners or employees in arts industries and how to identify and pursue opportunities that challenge them to recombine resources in innovative ways to produce creative arts projects. The minor/certificate will equip them with career skills to define professional goals, develop marketing strategies, launch ventures, conduct fundraising campaigns, and organize artistic events.

General Requirements:

Declaration of the minor/certificate must be approved by the TCVPA Lead Advisor or Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Curricular Issues.
Students must complete a minimum of 21 credit hours.
Hours applied to the minor may not be used to fulfill requirements in the student’s major.

(Note: Courses generally can be taken in any order as long as any necessary prerequisites have been met)

I. Business Component (12 credit hours)

Option One – Rawls Summer Business Institute:

(2.0 GPA required)

BA 3012 - Business Economics Basics V1-3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3014 - Information Technology Basics V1-3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3015 - Management Basics V1-3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3011 - Accounting Basics V1-3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3010 - Business Law Basics V1-3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3016 - Marketing Basics V1-3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3017 - Operations Management Basics V1-3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3013 - Finance Basics V1-3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3019 - Business Strategy Basics V1-3 Semester Credit Hours

OR

Option Two:

(Requires approval of the TCVPA Lead Advisor or Associate Dean.)

BA 3302 - Financial and Managerial Accounting 3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3305 - Organization Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
Two of the following:
BA 3301 - Fundamentals of Marketing 3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3303 - Foundations of Finance 3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3304 - Operations Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3306 - Fundamentals of Business Economics 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 3375 - Entrepreneurship: New Value Creation 3 Semester Credit Hours

OR

Option Three:

(Requires approval of the TCVPA Lead Advisor or Associate Dean.)

BA 3302 - Financial and Managerial Accounting 3 Semester Credit Hours
BA 3305 - Organization Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 4384 - Managing Conflict and Negotiations 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 4388 - Change and Innovation Processes 3 Semester Credit Hours

II. Entrepreneurship Component

This is a graded component of MUAP 4315/MUAP 5315 and includes completion of Innovation Hub Red Raider Startup and/or Hub Camp.

III. Interdisciplinary Component (3 credit hours)

One of the following, chosen in consultation with the TCVPA Lead Advisor or Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Curricular Issues (some courses may count both toward the minor and the core curriculum):

VPA 2301 - Critical Issues in Arts and Culture 3 Semester Credit Hours
VPA 1302 - Global Dialogues: Connections through the Arts 3 Semester Credit Hours
VPA 2310 - Introduction to Interdisciplinarity in the Arts 3 Semester Credit Hours

IV. Arts Entrepreneurship Component (3 credit hours)

VPA 4315 - Arts Entrepreneurship 3 Semester Credit Hours

V. Arts Internship/Capstone Component (3 credit hours)

May be repeated for credit.

VPA 4000 - Special Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies in Visual and Performing Arts V1-6 Semester Credit Hours
OR
4000-Level Independent Study in Art, Music, Theatre, or Dance*

*Application for the TTU Accelerator can be credited as independent study if combined with an analysis.