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Category: Faculty + Courses

New EPICS Assistant Director No Stranger to Helping Students Succeed

By Jacob Nelson Mandi Glowen, the new assistant director of EPICS to support the MSLCE program, is no stranger to helping students succeed in careers.   She’s spent about five years working in career counseling for students in a variety of roles. She began in Northwestern’s Career Advancement, where she worked for four years before

New EPICS Associate Director Brings Artistic and Business Experience to Role

By Jacob Nelson Jonah Zeiger is a fitting choice for the new Associate Director of EPICS to support the MSLCE program: as a filmmaker, director, and producer who has been in the industry for almost 20 years, he knows his way around the creative world, from both the artistic and business perspectives. What’s more, as

New MSLCE Course will Introduce Students to the World of ‘Big Data’

By Jacob Nelson The term “big data” is everywhere these days, including the creative enterprises. Agnes Horvat’s Culture and Art Analytics course introduces MSLCE students to big data, and equips them with the skills to use big data in cultural markets. “Big data is basically a buzzword and there is so much of it available

MSLCE Professor Building an App to Give and Get Feedback

Today, we continue our feature where we ask an MSLCE professor three questions about the creative field they work in. Below is a conversation with Gail Berger, Assistant Professor of Instruction at Kellogg, McCormick, and the School of Education and Social Policy, about building apps, giving and getting feedback, and becoming an effective team leader. Can you briefly describe

Globalization Course Gets Students Thinking About Emerging Cultural Hubs

By Scotty Stieber When discussing globalization, often the idea of cultures crossing borders and oceans comes to mind. Claudio Benzecry’s “Culture and Globalization” course took that basic framework and extended it far beyond traditional modes of thinking to discuss how to globalize the creative class. How are cities, both large and small, changing as a

The Art and Science of the Pitch

By Laura Hess “Who were you, before you were told who you are?” Our fellow MSLCE classmate looked up at us and then back down at the little reed of paper. “Who were you, before you were told who you are,” she repeated quietly. Silence. This was our first class together in Laverne McKinnon’s “Pitching

Integrated Marketing: Melissa Wasserman meets with MSLCE Students

By Laura Hess “One show does not a brand make.” So said Melissa Wasserman, SVP of Client Solutions and Integrated Marketing at AMC Networks, as she recently met with students in Professor Rick Kolsky’s Marketing Strategies in Creative Industries course. The class discussed AMC’s acute pivot from American Movie Classics with no original programming, to a rebranded