Entrepreneurship Pathways 2025 – 2026

Pathways for Creative Futures program expansion equips emerging Emily Carr artists and designers with structured opportunities to test ideas with real partners, audiences, and markets, gain professional experience, and build clearer employment and self-employment pathways, through courses offered by the Audain Faculty of Art, Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media and Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies.

Delivered through 25 course sections across 12 credit courses, students complete applied creative research projects focused on a specific question, opportunity, or challenge—either in their own creative practice or in collaboration with an industry partner. They use creative and design research methods (e.g., audience research, prototyping, testing formats, reflection) to generate findings, prototypes, or recommendations that can inform future programs, services, or bodies of work in the creative industries.

Between Fall 2025–Spring 2026, Entrepreneurship Pathways is integrated into the following courses:

• • VAST 410: Senior Studio Interdisciplinary | S004, taught by Artem Struyansky + Laura Newlon 
  • VAST 410: Senior Studio Interdisciplinary | S007, taught by Birthe Piontek
  • VAST 410: Senior Studio Interdisciplinary | S010, taught by Patrik Andersson
  • VAST 410: Senior Studio Interdisciplinary | S011, taught by Beth Howe + Mark Johnsen
  • VAST 410: Senior Studio Interdisciplinary | S092T, taught by Jennifer Woodin
  • ILUS 410: Illustration Senior Studio | S002, taught by Hyein Lee
  • ILUS 306: Illustration Practices | S001, taught by Sarah Green
  • FRMS 300: Art Forums | S031, taught by prOphecy Sun + Annie Briard
  • COMD 410: Core Studio Communication Design | S001, taught by Katherine Gillieson
  • COMD 410: Core Studio Communication Design | S002, taught by Cameron Neat
  • COMD 410: Core Studio Communication Design | S003, taught by Gabe Wong
  • INDD 410: Core Studio Industrial Design | S001, taught by Charlotte Falk
  • INDD 410: Core Studio Industrial Design | S002, taught by Pablo Mariano
  • INDD 410: Core Studio Industrial Design | S003, taught by Patricia Vera
  • INTD 318: Creating a Design Startup | S001, taught by Ryan Smith
  • INTD 410: Core Studio Interaction Design | S001, taught by Manuhuia Barcham
  • INTD 410: Core Studio Interaction Design | S002, taught by Cheryl Li
  • GSMD 550: Directed Studies Topics | S001, taught by Ben James
  • GSMD 550: Directed Studies Topics | S003, taught by Nadia Beyzaei
  • GSMD 622: Thesis Project Seminar | S001, taught by Robin Mitchell Cranfield
  • GSMD 622: Thesis Project Seminar | S091, taught by Annette Blum
  • GSMA 512: Graduate Forum | S091, taught by prOphecy Sun 
  • GSMA 512: Graduate Forum | S092, taught by prOphecy Sun 
  • GSMA 512: Graduate Forum | S093 – ECOL, taught by Holly Schmidt
  • GSMA 600: Graduate Seminar | S091, taught by Randy Lee Cutler

Entrepreneurship Pathways is funded in partnership with the Business + Higher Education Roundtable and with support from the Government of Canada.