Arts Entrepreneur
Certificate
(27 semester hours minimum)
The Arts Entrepreneur Certificate provides emerging artists with useful business management skills while providing them with a pathway for future career growth. The ideal candidates are those seeking self employment from selling their art related products or services. Musicians, potters, photographers, sculptors, painters, graphic artists, performers, and textile artisans could all benefit from the pragmatic, flexible interdisciplinary nature of the program.
Learners who complete the Arts Entrepreneur Certificate will:
- Understand the U.S. legal system and those facets of law applicable to the world of business
- Understand, create, and analyze basic financial statements
- Communicate effectively
- Understand the individual business disciplines and their relationship to the world of business
- Know the importance of satisfying consumer needs and the central role of marketing in the business process
- Demonstrate an understanding of related software applications
For more information contact Program Coordinator Jennifer Oliver.
Program Requirements
(See also General Requirements)
| Credits | ||
|---|---|---|
| ACC* 113 | Principles of Financial Accounting | 3 |
| BES* 218 | Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| BBG* 230 | Survey of Business Law | 3 |
| BMK* 201 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| ENG* 101 | Composition | |
| or | ||
| COM* 176 | Business & Professional Communication | 3 |
| ACC* 123 | Accounting Software Applications2 | 3 |
| IS 135 | Principles of Problem Solving | 3 |
| Fine Art Electives1 | 6 | |
| Total Program Credits | 27 |
- Students should meet with their advisor and the art program coordinator to select these courses. Students are encouraged to take ART* 291 Portfolio Preparation as one of their fine art electives.
- Students without computer experience should take CSA* 105 first.