The Business of Hip Hop Innovation & Creative Industries Certificate

Where Diversity and Innovation Meet

HipHop is a cultural tool that helps students learn innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy, risk-taking, marketing, sales, analytics and much more. Today’s students are exposed to HipHop across social media, music in coffee shops, various products and the consistent tie-in with sport and sport business management. The new Business of HipHop Innovation & Creative Industries Certificate from UCF College of Business is the first academic program of its type to be offered by a college of business.

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‘Why wouldn’t you invest in something that started with two turntables and a microphone and is now a trillion-dollar business?’
— Dr. C. Keith Harrison in Financial Times

Required Courses can be taken in a summer plus one semester or a semester plus one summer and a year max.
Course	Credits	College	Format/Location	Offered
SPB 4932 – The Business of HipHop Innovation and Entrepreneurship	3	College of Business	Hybrid/Main Campus	Fall/Spring
SPB 3003 Introduction to Sport Business Management	3	College of Business	Face-to-Face/Main Campus	Fall/Spring
AFA 3371 The Evolution of Hip Hop	3	College of Arts & Humanities	Online	Fall/Spring/Summer
ENT 3613 Creativity and Entrepreneurship	3	College of Business	Face-to-Face/Main Campus	Fall/Spring/Summer

Program Overview

Students who successfully complete the certificate will receive a commemorative 12-inch vinyl certificate that lists the four required courses and the skill sets attained through the certificate experience. This will add some HipHop flavor to any on-site or home office as a dope artifact. The ultimate nostalgia stamp of HipHop culture.

Who Should Enroll

Students who are interested in learning culturally relevant approaches from the perspective of innovation of HipHop culture should enroll. This certificate is open to all current UCF students and can be completed in a year.