Business and the Arts: An interesting combination

This program was divided into two parts.

The first part was about connecting business practices to the arts world, showing where they would be an important component, showing where they are slightly different from normal business programs, and even getting unique lectures that were all about aspects of the arts world you don't think about such as copyright. it was done in a series of lectures, with weekends off, and a test at the end. We also did a business simulation in this time, allowing us to more directly apply the principles we were working on. This part of the program was much more low key, and more traditionally academic. It also left room for fun trips with both groups that sponsored me: Internship Scotland and Arcadia. Our class did things like tour the highlands, go to the highland games or just go for fun strolls around the old town or new town.

The second half of the program was interning with a company at the famous Scotland Festival Fringe. A giant theater festival, and I got to help a company with it. This was more fulfilling in the content, because we got to see the behind the scenes workings of the company, along with help with marketing, stage management and any other task they were willing to hand off to us. I also got passes to some of the venues I worked at, giving me great perks while I worked to go see the shows as I worked in the evenings or as I went. And at the end of this time, I needed to turn in a paper to the program to talk about something I noticed about the work I was doing with the program and any business trends I noticed.

In between these two parts of the official program, there was still time to make friends, join local groups (a church in my case), and just explore the city if you wanted. This unofficial time was probably my favorite, though I enjoyed the surprises as I went as well, such as joining fellow classmates for things like tea or dinner.