Course syllabus for Artistic Entrepreneurship
Konstnärligt entreprenörskap
Essential data
Specific entry requirements
No less than 120 credits.
Outcomes
The course aims to create opportunities for the student to acquire knowledge and practical skills in using entrepreneurship as well as artistic methods as a way to ideate, create, deliver and evaluate cultural and/or societal value in transdisciplinary projects.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
- apply different methods for business modelling in the artistic field
- use tools and habits of thought (habits of mind) to initiate entrepreneurial projects with a core in artistic/creative practice
- together with others plan, create, implement and evaluate transdisciplinary projects with an artistic/creative practice
- use methods such as improvisation and stage production in co-creation to jointly create and present project ideas and to be able to orally and in writing clearly present and explain to others an artistic/cultural project idea and its implementation
- identify, reflect on and formulate their own artistic/creative practice as a basis for transdisciplinary entrepreneurial projects
- reflect on the possibilities and influence of one's own artistic and transdisciplinary practice in a societal context.
Content
The course is aimed at students who have some form of own artistic/creative practice (also at amateur level) and is based on the student's artistic/creative practice. A transdisciplinary way of working is based on the model for the "The Seven Trans-disciplinary Habits of Mind". The course is characterized by creativity, interactions, experiments and practical work. The methods presented, entrepreneurial as well as artistic/creative, aim to be used to plan a process from idea to action.
The course also aims to give the student skills and knowledge to use artistic and creative methods and processes in new contexts.
Teaching methods
The course contains the following:
- The teaching and learning activities include lectures and literature studies, examples of best practice and guests working within the field of artistic entrepreneurship as well as reflection and discussions.
- Project work in groups where the students will create a plan for an artistic and transdisciplinary project.
Examination
The examination is both individual (60%) and group (40%).
Students will have to pass all course assignments in order to receive a passing grade.
After completion of the course, the final grade will be a combination of the results for all weighted examinations.
The examiner assesses if and how absence from compulsory parts can be compensated. Before the student has participated in compulsory parts or compensated absence in accordance with the course examiner's the student's course results will not be reported. Absence from a compulsory part may result in the student having to wait to compensate until the next time the course is given.
Compulsory participation
The examiner assesses if and how absence from compulsory parts can be compensated. Before the student has participated in compulsory parts or compensated absence in accordance with the course examiner's the student's course results will not be reported. Absence from a compulsory part may result in the student having to wait to compensate until the next time the course is given.
A limited number of examinations
Students who have not passed the regular examination are entitled to participate in five more examinations. If the student has not passed the exam after four participations, he/she is encouraged to visit the study advisor. If the student has failed six examinations/tests, no additional examination or new admission is provided.
The number of times that the student has participated in one and the same examination is regarded as an examination session.
Submission of a blank exam is regarded as an examination session. An examination for which the student registered but not participated in, will not be counted as an examination.
Transitional provisions
Examination will be provided during a time of two years after a possible cancellation of the course. Examination can take place according to an earlier literature list during a time of one year after the date when a major renewal of the literature list has been made.
Other directives
The course language is English.
The course is offered within the framework of the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and given at Royal College of Music (KMH).
Literature and other teaching aids
Course compendium with relevant articles to be distributed before the start of the course.
Reference book
- Osterwalder, Alexander; Pigneur, Yves, Business model generation: a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers, Clark, Tim, Hoboken, N. J. : Wiley, cop. 2010 - 278, [3] s. ISBN: 978-0-470-87641-1 (pbk.), LIBRIS-ID: 11901379,