Bring your ideas to life across film, writing, fine art, and sound
Most creative work today moves between media. A poem becomes a short film. A podcast becomes a live performance. A sketchbook becomes a gallery show. The BA in Creative Arts is built for the way that work actually gets made.
This Creative Arts degree is organized around five creative competencies that deepen your creativity and expand your range as an artist:
- Creative Process & Consciousness. Intuition, awareness, creative discipline, and consciousness-based approaches to artistic practice.
- Storytelling & Meaning. Narrative, structure, and poetic and hybrid storytelling across media.
- Image, Form & Aesthetics. Visual literacy and composition in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and design.
- Sound, Language & Voice. Writing, rhetoric, sound design, spoken word, and music as expressive media.
- Professional Practice & Presentation. Entrepreneurship, personal branding, self-employment and tax literacy, monetization, portfolio development, exhibitions, and festivals.
You’ll also study across three departments – Cinematic Arts & New Media, Creative Writing, and Fine Arts – taking at least one class from each and building a single body of work that draws on all of them.
Customize and name your own path
You’ll build 20 credits of specialization coursework with your Creative Arts advisor, shaped around what you love to make. Then you’ll name that path, and the name you choose prints on your diploma and transcript.
Key questions
- What can I do with a Creative Arts degree after graduation?
- When is the next entry?
- Yes. MIU is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), the same body that accredits major universities in the Midwest.
You’ll graduate ready for roles like content producer, social media manager, marketing and communication specialist, podcast producer, photographer, editor, designer, or independent creative running your own practice.
Your specialization coursework and capstone portfolio will determine which roles you’re most suited for.
Your admissions counselor will provide you with all the details of becoming a student, including connecting you with program faculty when you have questions.
This course is your entryway into MIU and Consciousness-Based Education. We dive into an ancient yet radically new framework for understanding the universe and our place in it. This model holds that consciousness, not matter, is fundamental. With this in mind, we look at some of life’s big questions: How can we develop our fullest potential as human beings? How do art and stories help us understand that potential? How can our own growth help create a more just and peaceful society? What do the world’s great wisdom traditions have in common? How can we improve education and healthcare? The new paradigm we explore in this course infuses all your classes at MIU. In this course, you'll learn the Transcendental Meditation® technique to awaken the full potential of consciousness in your life.
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