Entrepreneurship, Labour Market, and Marketing SkillsLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

The student learns to recognize and develop their own entrepreneurship and working life skills, and can apply an entrepreneurial approach as well as acquire information on the possibilities of entrepreneurship and the practices of the music industry. The student knows the fundamental contract practices and funding channels of the music industry, as well as the central principles of copyright legislation.

The student receives tools for identifying and developing the relevant skills for employability. The student can describe, commercialize and market their skills in a customer-oriented way, utilizing teamwork and networks. The student develops capabilities for developing business ideas together with others, and to acquire resources for their activities through commercialization, projectization and by marketing their ideas.

Content

Tax, pension and social security systems, forms of enterprise, revenue logic and livelihood, grants and scholarships, copyright, direct costing and accounting, music contract practices, personal branding, entrepreneurial interviews, and working life, networking and teamwork skills.

Qualifications

No prerequisities.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student is able to define and describe concepts related to the subject. The student is able to describe the conditions for operating as an entrepreneur, their own skills, the most common contract practices and financing sources in the music industry, and key principles of copyright law. The student recognizes the differences between working as an employee and being an entrepreneur in their own professional field.