Certificate in Arts & Letters Entrepreneurship
The Certificate in Arts & Letters Entrepreneurship provides students with the essential business-oriented knowledge and entrepreneurial skillsets needed to be successful creative entrepreneurs. Students will develop skills that will help them create, work within, and contribute to arts and letters organizations including public, private, and self-initiated endeavors. As part of the certificate, students will learn the fundamentals of arts organization management and arts marketing and communication practices.
1. Any concurrent undergraduate degree in the departments of art, communication studies, design, english, history, humanities & religious studies, music, philosophy, theatre & dance, or world languages & literatures.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ALS 160 | Arts Organizational Management and Communication (new course: Arts Organizational Management and Communication) | 3 |
| ALS 161 | (new course: Arts and Letters Entrepreneurship and Marketing) | 3 |
| ALS 195 | Internship in Arts and Letters | 3 |
| Select 6 units from the following: 1 | 6 | |
| Individual, Community, and Citizenship | ||
| The Studio: Explorations in Arts and Letters | ||
| Art and the Artist in the Marketplace | ||
| Curatorial Projects | ||
| Survey of Communication Studies | ||
| Rhetoric and Social Influence | ||
| Intercultural Communication | ||
| Multimedia Communication | ||
| Survey of Public Relations | ||
COMS 122 | ||
| Online Collaboration | ||
| Organizational Communication | ||
| Creative Dance for Children | ||
| Dance Cultures Of America | ||
| African-Caribbean Dance | ||
| World Design and Visual Culture | ||
| Film Theory and Criticism | ||
| Children's Literary Classics | ||
| Professional Writing | ||
| Technical Writing | ||
| Intermediate Fiction Writing | ||
| Intermediate Poetry Writing | ||
| Special Topics in Poetry Writing | ||
| Writing For Television | ||
| Between Genres: Flash Fiction/Prose Poetry | ||
| Writing Feature Film Scripts | ||
| Art of Autobiography | ||
| Entrepreneurship | ||
| Production Management for Film | ||
| Staging and Lighting Digital Video | ||
| Popular Culture | ||
| Hollywood and America | ||
| Public History | ||
| Oral History: Theory and Practice | ||
| Global Crossings: Art and Culture 1945 to Present | ||
| Food, Farming, and the Sacred | ||
| Multicultural America | ||
| American Space and Identity | ||
| Hollywood and America | ||
| Contemporary Issues in Film | ||
| Women in Film and American Culture | ||
| Film/Design | ||
| American Popular Music: Jazz History | ||
| History of Rock Music | ||
| Hip-Hop in Urban America | ||
| World Music: Asia | ||
| World Music: Africa | ||
| World Music: Latin America | ||
| The American Musical Theater | ||
| American Society and Its Music | ||
| Ethics and Social Issues | ||
| Professional and Public Service Ethics | ||
| Business and Computer Ethics | ||
| Photography, a Social History | ||
| Directing | ||
| Puppetry | ||
| Children's Theatre | ||
| Lighting and Set Design | ||
| Costume Design | ||
| Multicultural Perspectives in American Theatre | ||
| Multicultural Perspectives in American Film | ||
| Total Units | 15 | |
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The certificate is designed to choose two courses (6 units) that overlap with major requirements. Please consult with the Certificate Coordinator for additional advising in course selections.