This course explores the tools, strategies, and practices of 21st-century project management, with a focus on creative and artistic industries. It addresses the unique challenges of managing projects in fields ranging from visual arts and design to digital media and game development.
You will develop a project from initial concept to a detailed, execution-ready plan while building practical skills for managing creative work. You’ll explore key topics including research and ideation, the use of AI in creative workflows, defining and measuring success, and creating professional design documents (including Game Design Documents). You’ll also examine topics about studio organization, grant writing and pitching, audience validation, and collaboration across disciplines, along with insights into the creative industries in Ontario and Canada.
By the end of the course, you will have a comprehensive project plan and a toolkit to support your professional creative practice.
Program Information
What you’ll learn AND DO IN Project Management for Creative Industries:
- Analyze and address the unique challenges of project management within creative and artistic disciplines.
- Develop and apply project management strategies to take a creative idea from concept to an execution-ready plan.
- Produce professional documentation in accordance with external guidelines, including proposals, applications, design documents (e.g., GDDs), and project schedules.
- Evaluate and define success metrics for creative projects, using appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods.
- Conduct independent research to inform creative decision-making and project development.
- Communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, adapting messaging across creative, technical, and business contexts.
- Collaborate across disciplines, demonstrating constructive feedback practices and teamwork skills.
- Apply industry-relevant knowledge, including funding, pitching, and audience validation, within the context of the creative industries in Canada.
Project Management Creative Industries for:
- College grads from technical fields looking to add some of what a university education would add;
- People in creative professions who are looking for some business support, to grow their business or move into doing art as work;
- People in business who are looking to better understand (or move into) creative industries;
- People considering a career in either business or the arts (or both)
Module 1:
Creative Project Discovery
Module 2:
Strategic Project Planning
Module 3:
Project Documentation and Collaboration
Module 4:
Pitching and Project Readiness
All necessary materials are included in course fees.
This is an asynchronous, instructor-led course with defined start date, end date and specific module due dates. Learners are not expected to be online at a certain time of day, but they are expected to work through the material and interacting with their instructor. Learners should expect to spend approximately 5-8 hours per week on coursework throughout each week to meet course requirements.
Prerequisites
- No prerequisites are required to take this course.
Technology Requirements
For in-person and online studies:
- Laptop: Minimum Windows 10 or equivalent operating system. Recommended 8GB of RAM and at least 16 GB of free hard disk space and Wi-Fi capabilities.
Online studies only:
- Access to reliable high-speed broadband internet access (Cable, DSL, LTE) with a minimum bandwidth of 15 Mbps is recommended.
- Laptop must include integrated webcam and microphone.
To successfully complete your program, you will complete all components of the program. Your progress will be continuously evaluated using a variety of formative and/or summative assessments to receive a final mark. Information about these assessment methods will be provided in the Learning Management System on the first day of the program.
| Code | PCSL 9N589 |
| Price | $749 |
| OSAP Eligible | Yes |
| Delivery Mode(s) | ASY - Asynchronous Online |
| Duration | 8 weeks |
| Intake Details | More Info |