Arts and Entrepreneurship, Minor
Program Overview
The Arts and Entrepreneurship minor is an interdisciplinary program that provides undergraduate students with the entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and resources needed to successfully launch and run their own business in the arts, including fine and applied arts, design, performing arts, and entertainment media industries. Students in the minor will learn and implement the skills needed for evaluating and ensuring the success of a business opportunity in the arts industry, including team building, organizing, planning, integrating, and persuading. Participation in the minor supports students in the arts who have learned skills and techniques to create unique and original products and to provide creative services and opportunities. The minor ensures successful utilization of their unique skillsets by teaching them how to evaluate and launch an innovative business venture. The minor leads to an internship course providing real-world opportunities within the arts industries to learn relevant skills and processes and helps students establish local connections to art professionals here in the RGV. The minor will also provide instruction in product solution fit, target customer, market research, marketing strategy and plan, online presence for the arts, as well as how to raise funds.
Admission requirements for this program beyond university admission requirements.
- Must be declared in an undergraduate program in the College of Fine Arts.
Minor Requirements - 21 hours
Required - 18 hours
Electives - 3 hours
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