Arts Entrepreneurship

Creative Nonfiction Writing - Craft True Engaging Stories: Are you a storyteller at heart? In this course, you’ll learn how to transform real experiences into captivating narratives, all while strengthening core writing skills. You’ll explore diverse forms of creative nonfiction— personal narratives, opinion pieces, profiles, and more. Along the way, you’ll create a library of inspiring texts, consider publishing opportunities, and establish sustainable writing habits. Connect with a global community through video chats and online discussions, where you’ll participate in a supportive workshop model, receive valuable feedback, and grow as a writer in today’s exciting nonfiction genre.

Graphic Design - Unleash Your Visual Voice: What makes a message persuasive and compelling? How do audiences interpret and make sense of information? This course dives into the powerful relationship between information and influence from a graphic design perspective. You’ll gain the skills to create impactful visual content, exploring design principles, infographics, social media, digital search strategies, social activism, and multimedia storytelling. Through a case study and design-based approach, you’ll work on individual and collaborative projects, content curation, writing, peer critiques, and online presentations.

Data Visualization - Turn Numbers Into Narratives: In a world flooded with data, visualizations cut through the noise to reveal meaning. This course teaches you to collect, organize, interpret, and effectively communicate massive amounts of information. You’ll master data wrangling in spreadsheets, harness the power of charts, and learn to spot both effective and misleading visuals. Using principles from information graphics, visual art, graphic design, and cognitive science, you’ll create your own compelling visualizations using tools like Datawrapper, Tableau Public, and Python.