Master of Arts in Business Leadership

Unite business strategy with art and design Build upon your creative career or four-year college with executive knowledge As visionaries of the highest order, creative leaders blend strategic business acumen, management expertise, and a design mindset to develop thriving enterprises. This one-year M.A. program is tailored to this convergence of the creative sphere and the business world. You will merge entrepreneurship with design knowledge in a program that emphasizes strategic thinking, financial planning, and effective management. Our graduates are thought leaders and entrepreneurs for the creative economy: empowered to spearhead the companies that advance the future of arts, entertainment, social media, digital, and design.

From Agoras to Digital Markets: Fundamentals of Business Design

Leading the design and management of dynamic creative and cultural enterprises takes a thorough understanding of organizational processes and management techniques. Through a survey of historic organizational strategies, students are introduced to the innovative tools, necessary to develop their own enterprise or lead within an existing organization. Students focus on enterprise analysis, organizational structures, strategic planning, management techniques and incorporation. Prerequisite(s): None.

Game Changers: 10,000 Years of Leadership

Great minds have shaped the world we live in today. While exploring innovative methods of leadership throughout history, students learn the legacies created by the most prominent leaders of government, military, religion, art, business, design, science, philosophy and technology. Guided by knowledge gained in this course, students adapt and develop their own strategies of decision-making and direction as leaders. Prerequisite(s): None.