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Duluth Campus
Cultural Entrepreneurship B.A.World Languages & Cultures
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Cultural entrepreneurship is an emerging academic discipline that examines how cultural products traditionally associated with the fine and liberal arts, such as art, theater, poetry, and literature, but also cultural activities such as sports, music, food, and film events, are having an increasingly important impact on the growth of local, national, and global economies. Cultural entrepreneurship scholars thus study the impact of culture on economies, and develop new strategies for enhancing local livelihoods by creative, new, sustainable, socially responsible ways of producing income through cultural activity.
The program stresses the centrality of culture in the success of entrepreneurial endeavors. Building on the concept of cognitive ambidexterity, it combines training in quantitative skills and predictive logic that is common in business schools with extensive work in creative logic and thinking, as it is most often cultivated in the liberal arts. Predictive logic refers to the ability to generate models, forecasts, and estimates, while creative logic addresses the ability to self-examine, understand social contexts, and to shape the future by identifying courses of action and negotiating complexities of human decision-making.
Students in this program will complete an extensive core of entrepreneurship, management and conceptual competency in the culture and creative economy. Students develop cultural literacy through the study of at least one Foreign or Indigenous language. Students can choose one of the two sub-plans: certificate of business administration or leadership development. To contextualize cultural entrepreneurship students are required to take a minor or major in another pre-approved field of study. Majors are encouraged to incorporate a study abroad experience into their programs.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Admission Requirements
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions
website.
Required prerequisites
Introductory Requirement (1 cr)
Transfer students with 24 or more credits and current UMD students who change colleges to CLA are exempt from this requirement. New first-year students with 24 or more PSEO credits may request to be waived from this requirement.
UST 1000 - Learning in Community
(1.0-2.0 cr)
General Requirements
Program Requirements
1) A second field of study, either a minor or another major in one of the following: Anthropology, American Indian Studies, Chinese Area Studies, Communication, French Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Digital Writing, Literature & Design minor, Journalism, Latin American Studies, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Cultural Entrepreneurship (CUE) program director approval is required if students wish to minor or major in a field not listed above.
2) Written application to the CUE program director, explaining why the student wants to be admitted to the program and their career goals.
3) Study abroad is encouraged for all students and the department makes every effort to support such experiences. Students are advised to visit with the CUE program director about how courses abroad may be incorporated into this program.
4) The program encourages students to take internship and field study courses during their junior or senior years. Students are advised to visit with the program director to discuss internship opportunities.
Conceptual Competency Core (10-13 cr)
CUE 1111 - Creative Problem Solving
(3.0 cr)
CUE 3101 - Introduction to Design Thinking and Conceptual Competencies
(3.0 cr)
Take no more than 1 course(s) from the following:
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CUE 4001 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
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CUE 4003 - Entrepreneurial Ethics and Values
(3.0 cr)
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ES 3200 - Environmental and Ecological Justice
(3.0 cr)
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ES 3500 - Ecological Economics
(3.0 cr)
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GEOG 2313 - Economic Geography
[LE CAT6, SOC SCI]
(3.0 cr)
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GEOG 3461 - Geography of Global Resources
(3.0 cr)
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GIS 2552 - Mapping Our World
[LOGIC & QR]
(3.0 cr)
Foreign Languages and Cultural Literacy Core (3-24 cr)
Through advisement and approval by the director students select one of the following options:
A) Complete the advanced level course & a 3xxx level course of a Foreign Language taught in the language from: AMIN, CHIN, FR, GER, RUSS, SPAN.
B) Complete the intermediate level sequence in ONE Foreign Language & take TWO Foreign Language courses taught in English.
C) Complete the beginning level sequence in TWO Foreign Languages & take TWO Foreign Language courses taught in English.
Take 3 or more credit(s) from the following:
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Students must complete at least 3 credits to satisfy this requirement. Once one of the above options is completed, students request approval from the director and submit the 'CUE lang/culture form' found here: z.umn.edu/umdclaprograms
Advanced Writing Requirement (3 cr)
WRIT 31xx - Adv Writing (3 cr)
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Certificate of Business Administration
After the successful completion of this sub-plan, students will receive a Certificate of Business Administration from LSBE. These courses are provided in an online format and can be taken in any order. See class search for variable start dates of courses (1st half, 2nd half or full-term). Up to two of the following courses may be substituted with equivalent classroom classes. For additional changes or course substitutions students must meet with the CUE program director.
Once all courses are complete students must apply to receive the certificate, application details here: z.umn.edu/umdcert
Certificate of Business Administration (16 cr)
BUS 2100 - Fundamentals of Accounting
(2.0 cr)
BUS 2200 - Fundamentals of Economics
(2.0 cr)
BUS 2300 - Fundamentals of Operations Management
(2.0 cr)
BUS 2400 - Fundamentals of Organizational Management
(2.0 cr)
BUS 2500 - Fundamentals of Applied Statistics
(2.0 cr)
BUS 2600 - Fundamentals of Financial Management
(2.0 cr)
BUS 2700 - Fundamentals of Marketing
(2.0 cr)
BUS 2800 - Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
(2.0 cr)
Leadership Development
This sub-plan combines studies of entrepreneurship and management in the creative economy, language and cultural competencies and leadership development theory and practice. This track is particularly suited for students who intend to pursue the UMD Leadership Certificate with an emphasis on organizational leadership through the UMD Kirby Leadership Institute.
Take all the following courses. CUE program director approval is required for any course substitutions.
Leadership Development (16 cr)
AMIN 3820 - Fundamentals of Tribal Project Management
(3.0 cr)
MGTS 1101 - Introduction to Business
[LE CAT8]
(3.0 cr)
PSY 3211 - Group Dynamics
(3.0 cr)
take one course:
PSY 3520 - Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology
(3.0 cr)
or
SOC 3831 - Organizations and Society
(4.0 cr)
take one course:
MGTS 4431 - Leadership Studies
(3.0 cr)
or
alternative course (pre-approved by the CUE program director)
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Course Equivalencies: | EHS 1000/UST 1000/ ES 1000 |
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Course Equivalencies: | GIS 2552/GEOG 2552 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall, Spring & Summer |
Credits: | 1.0 -4.0 [max 8.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 4.0] |
Prerequisites: | instructor consent, no grad credit |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Summer |
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Course Equivalencies: | AMIN 3820/TAG 3820 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
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Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall, Spring & Summer |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Prerequisites: | 3401, LSBE candidate or or Non-LSBE Organizational Management minor or college consent |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |