MUSC 2918 - Building Your Music Career
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Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Develop a broad range of tools needed for a professional career in music. Subjects include networking, development and use of promotional materials, funding, social media and the internet and financial management, among others - all taught through an entrepreneurial lens. A range of career opportunities is explored, using the entrepreneurial process to assess and explore a variety of paths and opportunities. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours.
MUSC 4908 - Arts Administration Internship
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Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Engage with music/music business organizations in the community (for profit or non-profit) to pursue specific tasks or projects relevant to the student's career goals. A minimum of 48 hours is required per semester for one credit. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours. Same as MUSC 5908.
MUSC 4968 - Management and Leadership in the Arts
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Spring 2024 / Spring 2025
Focus on management, leadership, and communication strategies and their application to arts organizations. Concepts and approaches for leaders of small, medium, and large arts organizations in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, including human resource management, problem solving, and effective communication will be examined. Students will practice and refine their written communication skills by writing clearly and concisely throughout the course. Same as MUSC 5938.
MUSC 4988 - The Entrepreneurial Artist
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Spring 2024
Learn the core principles of entrepreneurship, such as idea formation, venture models, opportunity assessment, market analysis and strategies for launching a venture and apply them to entrepreneurial ideas. Lectures, projects, entrepreneur interviews and case studies will culminate in a feasibility study for an original entrepreneurial concept. Recommended prerequisite: MUSC 2918. Same as MUSC 5988.
MUSC 4998 - Music Entrepreneurship Certificate Capstone
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Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Completes the Certificate in Music Entrepreneurship. Students will develop an art-based entrepreneurial concept, engage in customer discovery, refine their business model, create a marketing plan, research relevant intellectual property issues, and complete a business model canvas for their venture.
MUSC 5908 - Arts Administration Internship
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Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2026
Engage with music/music business organizations in the community (for profit or non-profit) to pursue specific tasks or projects relevant to the student's career goals. A minimum of 48 hours is required per semester for one credit. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours. Same as MUSC 4908.
MUSC 5918 - Graduate Career Seminar
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Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
Equips graduate music students with the tools and skills required to pursue a professional career in music. Topics include (but are not limited to) professional materials (resumes, CVs, websites), networking/social media, grant writing/fundraising, exploring career options, and copyrights/other legal issues.
MUSC 5938 - Management and Leadership in the Arts
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Spring 2024 / Spring 2025
Focus on management, leadership, and communication strategies and their application to arts organizations. Concepts and approaches for leaders of small, medium, and large arts organizations in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, including human resource management, problem solving, and effective communication will be examined. Students will practice and refine their written communication skills by writing clearly and concisely throughout the course. Same as MUSC 4968.
