As a Creative Entrepreneurship student, you will:

• Develop your creative practice(s) along with proficiency in marketable skills, such as business ideation and development, design thinking, project management, futurecasting, and creative leadership.
• Hone creative and critical skills to work independently and collaboratively.
• Experience working with external clients on local and global projects, gaining intercultural insights, and developing a professional network and portfolio.
• Apply tools and methods to build long-term economic sustainability that balance the needs of people, planet, and profit.
• Use systems thinking, design thinking, and human-centered service design to create solutions for complex local and global problems.
• Gain skills and experience to start a business venture, or work as a creative professional in the nonprofit or private sector.

As a Sustainable Design student, you will:

• Explore current sustainability and design-for-sustainability theories, concepts, and frameworks.
• Apply innovative design-for-sustainability strategies, tools, and techniques through project-based assignments.
• Experience both individual and collaborative design projects.
• Develop skills in systems thinking, critical thinking, research, writing, problem solving, and visual communication.
• Gain useful knowledge that keeps you and your organization at the forefront of this important field.
• Complete a thesis project and presentation.
• Build a web-based portfolio of your coursework.
• Engage with an international network of sustainability professionals and supportive MCAD alumni.