Creative Entrepreneurship Short Course

Course description

Being successful in the visual arts and creative industries requires not only business knowledge but confident inter-personal and enterprise skills. If you wish to become more self-assured and ambitious this course is for you.

Alongside talent, artists, designers, image makers and creative professionals have prospered through a variety of means. Many skills need to be enhanced or acquired to become a successful practitioner or build a business within the creative industries. This course aims to assist in developing a range of inter-personal and practical enterprise skills to help you profit from opportunity.

Alongside talent, artists, designers, image makers and creative professionals have prospered through a variety of means. Many skills need to be enhanced or acquired to become a successful practitioner or build a business within the creative industries. This course aims to assist in developing a range of inter-personal and practical enterprise skills to help you profit from opportunity.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• You will start to develop an entrepreneurial mindset to help embolden your outlook whether you are a creative freelancer, start an arts/crafts practice, or design business
• Consider the key aspects of networking and finding opportunities
• Gain an overview of trends, creative promotion and how to attract attention
• Have a practical insight into making presentation skills, and how to pitch a proposal or gain commissions
• How to negotiate, understand the tactics, principles and creative theory
• Become more confident about yourself and evolve new inter-personal skills
• Get to heat first hand from a creative entrepreneur, gain an insight into their journey, and ask them questions

Who should take this course?

Artists, makers, designers, photographers or any other creative professionals wishing to develop their entrepreneurship skills.

Entry requirements: None

Level: Beginners

Clear, easy to understand lessons:

• Our tutors will explain things in easy to understand, accessible English. If they need to use any special terminology they will make sure they explain what they mean.
• New methods will be shown to students through live demonstrations, in a way thats crystal clear and easy to understand.

Experience life on campus:

• Study at Central Saint Martins, Granary Square a world-famous art and design college
• Network and share ideas with students from across the globe
• Access the technology and materials relevant to your discipline
• Shop in our college shops for any materials you might need
• Ask questions of your tutor in real time
• Receive feedback and critique on your assignments
• Experience the many sights of London on your down time

A certificate of completion:

• You've put the work in so we want to make sure you have something to show for it!
• As long as you attend a minimum of 80% of your classes, we will provide you with a certificate of attendance.
• We always recommend you attend all of the classes so that you get the most out of the experience!
• Certificates are great to compliment your cv.

All our online short courses include:

• Live and interactive online lessons with classmates from around the world
• The same course content and learning outcomes as our face to face courses
• Lesson recordings, for review, so you never have to miss a class
• Access to the virtual learning environment with course content
• Forums for support
• 2 weeks online access to the recordings of the live classroom sessions
• The opportunity to ask questions to your tutor in real time