Teams are a basic organizational building block. The purpose of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and practical skills to become a productive team leader in a creative organization. Collective creativity requires a team with a diverse set of skills. The creativity of the team is enhanced by other types of diversity such as personality type, creative style and experience level. “Building” a team means not only assembling the right set of people to do the job, but the process by which the team grows in capability and alignment. This course addresses the issues of motivation, leadership, and communications. Also included are negotiation, conflict resolution, and team building.

This course addresses managing information and providing support services from a design and media arts management perspective. Information resources include internally and externally developed information and assets, local and global communication networks, and associated hardware and software technology. Support services include the training and support of uses, operational policies and practices, disaster recovery, and security for electronic commerce within a creative enterprise.

In this course, students explore legal and regulatory issues and questions facing copyright holders, technology developers, and artist and designers. The impact of emerging technology, digital media, and ethical issues created by digital media will also be examined. A working knowledge of the legal system (standard legal agreements such as contracts, charters, and non-disclosure agreements), how it impacts business decisions, and how it can affect liability will also be presented.

This course is designed to lead students through the development, implementation, documentation, and evaluation of strategic and business planning in creative organizations. Students will develop tools and techniques that enable them to develop a long-range strategic plan as well as an operational plan in a creative enterprise. Strategic presentation skills, including data driven presentations are also covered.

This course is designed to apply financial, marketing and operations theory and tools to assess and analyze domestic and global markets, establish requirements and sources of capital, assess risks and analyze processes to meet demand. The assessment and analysis provides design and media arts organizations with the foundation to begin to address market needs.

This course emphasizes the identification, analysis, and selection of target markets; development and management of products and services; pricing; demand analysis and forecasting, distribution systems, advertising, and promotion. Forces impacting marketing strategy such as web marketing, consumer trends, and competition are examined. Students will identify opportunities at operational and strategic levels, and develop a marketing plan for a design or media arts innovation.

This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills related to the development of grant proposals that result in funding for creative, non-profit organizations. Students will assess organizational needs, identify potential funding sources, and research and write a prospective proposal. They will also discuss internal and external factors that impact funding, management of resources and administration of grants.

In today's global economy, creative professionals must work in partnership with people and organizations world-wide. Small entrepreneurial companies as well as large multi-national corporations must work as a team, regardless of location. This course examines topics such as cultural and national differences, global business practices in creative industries, global monetary systems, and communication and team skills necessary for success.

In this course, students will focus on the creative problem solving process. They will utilize generating and focusing tools in applying the problem solving process to translate ideas into useful and implementable creative products and actions. They will also gain a better understanding and appreciation of their own and others' problem-solving styles and creativity. Course topics include harnessing creativity, recognizing innovation, and solving innovation dilemmas and challenges.

Throughout this course, students will research possibilities for creating beneficial and profitable design ventures, and assess competitive environments and performance prospects. They will examine successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurial design ventures and design entrepreneurs. They will also identify the components of a business plan and examine various business plans.

Throughout this course, students will research possibilities for creating beneficial and profitable media arts ventures, and assess competitive environments and performance prospects. They will examine successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurial media arts ventures and media arts entrepreneurs. They will also identify the components of a business plan and examine various business plans.

This course focuses on the creation and management of all aspects of a project plan for a design or media arts project. The student will develop skills in assessment, planning, organization and controlling the resources needed to produce a creative company's product or services and to exercise successful team management to ensure that the project is completed in a quality manner within budget and on time.

In this course, students will develop skills in assessing, analyzing, new types of design and media technologies and upgrades of current technology. This course also addresses decision-making related to new technology adoption and implementation, financial considerations, deployment of new technologies within the company, training, and monitoring technology trends and innovation within the creative industry.

This course focuses on design managers as they work in the context of product development, planning, marketing, engineering, and implementation. Based on the goals of a design venture, students will apply design, innovation, and business theory to realistic business opportunities with successful, meaningful application for customers. Topics will include advanced concepts of branding, strategic planning, communication, outcomes and evaluation of launch, and follow-up revision, addition, and deletion of strategies.

This course focuses on media arts managers as they work in the context of product development, planning, marketing, engineering, and implementation. Based on the goals of a media arts venture, students will apply design and development, innovation, and business theory to realistic business opportunities with successful, meaningful application for customers. Topics will include advanced concepts of branding, strategic planning, communication, outcomes and evaluation of launch, and follow-up revision, addition, and deletion of strategies.

This course represents the culmination of the knowledge and skills that the student has learned in this program as applied to a capstone project. The course is intended to help students frame unstructured design or media art business problems or challenges, or to launch a new design or media arts product or company. Upon completion of all core and specialization coursework, the student will develop a detailed plan and timeline for the capstone project and, upon approval, will complete the capstone project.