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Stern School of Business
BSPA-GB 3337 Social Problem Based Entrepreneurship:
Social Problem-based Entrepreneurship is a course designed to put the idea of teaching social entrepreneurship to its ultimate test—with the objective of incubating a series of social ventures through the course of the semester that have the potential to be viable businesses and positively impact social or environmental outcomes. Once the semester begins, “start-up” teams of four to five students each will be formed. The course will employ the latest techniques from Design Thinking to help teams identify a problem as the basis for the startup, prototype a solution and develop a business model through real customer discovery out on the field. While the problem they are looking to solve may be a national or global one, teams will be encouraged to focus on New York City as their initial market of choice to facilitate fieldwork.
Tisch School of the Arts
TCHL-UE 1151 Crafting Creative Curriculum: Space, Time and Classroom:
This course is designed for students interested in learning about using creativity, entrepreneurship, and future studies in formal and informal educational settings. Special topics courses both explore technological progress and notions of futurism to better prepare students for a fast-paced world, and offer opportunities for students to create tangible and useful educational material and to exercise their creativity and entrepreneurial muscles in educationally significant ways.
Steinhardt
MPAMB-GE 2105 Concert Management:
Course emphasizes concert promotion & facilities management. Content to include large venues & club outlets, box office & crowd management, labor relations, production techniques (i.e. sets, lights, sound, costumes, etc.), special events, tour planning & coordination, contracts & riders. Case histories to display investment capital pursuits, administration/staffing, market identification, objectives, sequencing & strategies, budgeting, & break-even from an entrepreneurial perspective.
Tisch School of the Arts
REMU-UT 1241 Music Licensing Lab:
Music supervision and music licensing are two of the hottest topics in the music business. This class will introduce you to the creative, financial, legal, and technical sides of music supervision as well as teach you the nuts and bolts of music clearance and licensing. We will look at the many different facets of a music supervisor’s job, and the services they provide for all types of media projects, including film, television, advertising, video games, online/apps, and more. If you aspire to have a career as a music supervisor, licensor, publisher, artist, songwriter, composer, producer, and/or creative entrepreneur, this course is for you.
Tisch School of the Arts
REMU-UT 1226 Funding Your Music Venture:
How am I going to fund my project? What are the funding sources available to me? What type of funding works best for my music venture idea? These are among the range of challenges that every creative entrepreneur faces when planning the start up of a new music venture. The good news is that there is money out there and there are more opportunities than ever for music entrepreneurs to fund their start up music ventures. Having the ability to find and leverage funding opportunities is a skill that every music entrepreneur must have to succeed. This class proposes to demystify the funding process and provides an overview of the main sources of music business funding: Grants, Investments, Crowdfunding, Friends & Family, and Bootstrapping among others.
Tisch School of the Arts
REMU-UT 1218 The Business of Music: Incubation & Launch:
This course provides students with essential knowledge, a framework, the inspiration, and courage to translate their ideas involving music into new business opportunities and startup ventures. Through case studies, project work, reading, research, self-reflection, and interactions with guest speakers, students learn and experience entrepreneurship as a way of thinking and acting, and as a process that leads to new venture creation. The principal focus of this class is on the start-up process and the creation of new ventures that produce value.
Tisch School of the Arts
REMU-UT 1210 Conversations in the Global Music Business: From Crytocurrency to Big Data:
With sales of more than 1.3 billion, the German recorded music market is the third largest in the world: it is larger than the UK music market and behind only the USA and Japan. Beyond just numbers, the Berlin music business is unique: it’s home to hundreds of powerful independent and D.I.Y. record labels; it’s historically been ground zero for innovative electronic and dance music; and it’s a burgeoning tech hub for innovative software/hardware companies like Native Instruments, Ableton and Soundcloud. In this colloquium series, students will meet and hear each week from key creative entrepreneurial figures and innovators in the German and European music business.
Tisch School of the Arts
OART-UT 1241 Music Licensing Lab:
Music supervision and music licensing are two of the hottest topics in the music business. This class will introduce you to the creative, financial, legal, and technical sides of music supervision as well as teach you the nuts and bolts of music clearance and licensing. We will look at the many different facets of a music supervisor’s job, and the services they provide for all types of media projects, including film, television, advertising, video games, online/apps, and more. If you aspire to have a career as a music supervisor, licensor, publisher, artist, songwriter, composer, producer, and/or creative entrepreneur, this course is for you.
Tisch School of the Arts
OART-UT 1093 Creative Fundraising:
This course will cover both traditional and non-traditional financing and fundraising in the worlds of entertainment and the arts. Although our focus will be on the film world (with an emphasis on feature films), we will take occasional forays into the worlds of television, theatre, and music. We will also look at product financing. The goal of the course is to provide students with a framework for understanding the dynamics (as well as the specific routes) to raising funds for artistic endeavors. Many entertainment projects require significant capital before they can be realized.
Tisch School of the Arts
GFMTV-GT 2245 Master Series: Producing:
This course will focus on the changing landscape of “the audience” and our relationship with content as an expression of identity and perspective. The class will examine the shifting demographics of gender and diversity in North America as well as the significance of developed and emerging international and multicultural markets. With an expanded and progressive view of the marketplace, design thinking will be employed to look at new models for storytelling and to study entrepreneurial strategies for reaching wider audiences in the age of exponential technology.
