Entrepreneurship: The Artist As Entrepr

Open to MFA 3 students only.

Entrepreneurship: The Artist as Entrepreneur

The course will focus on learning to develop your
own opportunities for work in the arts. It will
address issues in both the profit and
not-for-profit worlds and encompass challenges
faced by performers and those who work in
production. It will cover the theatre/live
performance and film/media arenas. The methods
employed in this class will have little to do
with turning students into business moguls;
rather, the strategy is to challenge students to
find their interests, set goals, and become
self-directed with respect to their education and
future prospects. The purpose is to foster your
personal agency. Human agency is the capacity for
human beings to make choices and to impose those
choices on the world. In short, agency is the
capacity to act in the world with confidence and
consciousness.