Our cutting-edge program is 100% online and asynchronous, offering you the chance to embed entrepreneurship into your creative practice and ignite social change.
Establish a dynamic creative career, build entrepreneurial skills for social good, become a creative social entrepreneur. The Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Social Entrepreneurship offers a flexible and in-depth curriculum in an asynchronous, 100% online learning environment. Creative social entrepreneurship is a transdisciplinary field connecting creative, social, and entrepreneurial practices to improve the economic, environmental, political, and social well-being of society.
There is high demand for creative professionals with creativity, originality, initiative, and innovation and entrepreneurship skills across nonprofit, governmental, for-profit, and start-up companies.
As an emerging creative social entrepreneur, you will gain hands-on experience, engage with industry leading experts, and participate in transdisciplinary collaboration to become a visionary leader who uses creative talent to drive positive change and build a more sustainable and ethical creative and cultural sector.
Apply now and join us in shaping a future where your creative social entrepreneurship vision drives positive transformation in your community and beyond.
Why choose our program?
- Integration into undergraduate degree programs at the University of Kentucky
- Flexible Asynchronous Online Format
- Relevant Curriculum for Creative Entrepreneurial Success
- Top-quality Teaching by Industry Experts and Leading Researchers
- Strategic Application in the Job Market
- High-quality Online Learning Experience
- World’s First Undergraduate Program in Creative Social Entrepreneurship
The skills you are likely to gain from the program:
- Understanding the value and economic contributions of the creative and cultural sector
- Identifying entrepreneurial opportunities involving creative and social practices
- Conducting market research for creative market and industry discovery
- Connecting entrepreneurial risks with creative and social values
- Interpreting important financial strategies for creative social enterprise development
- Presenting and communicating entrepreneurial ideas to varied audiences of stakeholders
Program development sponsored by University of Kentucky’s Office of the Provost IMPACT Grant and the Gary B. Knapp Endowment.
Our program is directly aligned with the following UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
- 4 Quality Education
- 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- 10 Reduced Inequalities