Arts & Entertainment Industries Professional Development

Catalog description

Arts & Entertainment Industries (AEIM) Professional Development is designed to prepare AEIM majors for successful internship and career placement, growth and development. Through this course, AEIM majors will engage in best possible selves vision mission goals and objectives-setting, transferrable skills identification and articulation, resume development, informational and formal interview skills practice and application as well as refine and package their individual portfolios comprised of final projects/portfolios from several prior courses. These and other assets, including personal web-page and social media profile work and editorial bio, will be developed in the creation of a comprehensive professional "toolkit" of assets to aid in their pre-professional and professional career pursuits. Over the course of a semester, students will work on professional communication skills including public speaking, writing, and corresponding etiquette, and interviewing techniques for both in-person and virtual meetings. Students will explore their own strengths and weaknesses through industry-leading personality and professional skills and traits analyses and how to apply them to maximal effect. Industry guests from all arts disciplines will afford "real-world" perspectives and build networking capacity. Restricted to AEIM Majors, Junior standing or above.