Courses
A&HG 4013 Cultural Policy
A seminar covering historical and contemporary issues in arts policy focused on moments of economic, political, and social conflict and consensus.
A&HG 4174 Law and the Arts
Permission required for non-AADM majors. Principal artistic applications of U.S. law in areas drawn from copyright law, unfair competition and trademark law, misappropriation, First Amendment questions, miscellaneous torts including rights of privacy and publicity, defamation, interference with contract, and other problems relating to authenticity of art works.
A&HG 4176 Fundraising
Permission from professor required for non-AADM majors. An overview of current thinking in the field on finding support and generating funds for cultural initiatives including traditional and non-traditional approaches, funding trend analysis and research, and social entrepreneurship and revenue generation.
A&HG 4178 Marketing for the Arts, Entertainment & Culture
This course encompasses a focus on both for and not for profit organizations. It covers the diverse fields of commercial entertainment and visual arts, nonprofit performing and visual arts, as well as service and trade-related organizations in the cultural arts realm.
A&HG 4370 Practicum in Arts Administration
Permission required. This is a required course that offers professional development sessions and in which students read and critique research and reports on the state of the field, and practices within it. This course must be completed prior to the required internship.
A&HG 4470 Internship in Arts Administration
Permission required. Internship arranged with host institutions on an individual basis, taking into account the student’s needs, interests, and capacities and the host’s abilities to integrate those with its operation in an educationally useful manner. Minimum 75 hours. Pre-requisite: Practicum in Arts Administration.
A&HG 4520 Data & Theory in Arts Administration
This course explores research design, ethics, data collection and analysis as they are employed in arts administrative contexts and relevant to arts administration Integrative Project requirements. It also examines important examples of arts administration research and theory. Students begin to develop the research logic for their Integrative Projects.
A&HG 4575 IP Proposal
AADM majors only. In this mandatory course, first-year ARAD students will develop a formal proposal for the integrative project for approval, secure an appropriate IP Sponsor, and complete an oral defense of their IP proposal.
A&HG 4970 Supv Rsch-Arts Admin
Permission from the Program Director required. Independent research in arts administration.
A&HG 5172 Contemporary Issues Arts Admin
Contemporary issues within arts administration. Topics evolve with the field but can include debates over deaccessioning art, the importance of new markets like China, etc.
A&HG 5175 Entrepreneurship in the Arts
Permission from professor required for non-AADM majors. Designed to integrate arts administration course-work from business, law, and the arts. Moves from the financial, cultural, political environment to strategic planning tools to specific arts situations in the creation and implementation of planning objectives.
A&HG 5178 Race & The Arts
Race and The Arts explores how, at every step, arts practitioners and administrators generate and reinforce meanings that we take for granted, but are being created all the time, by engaging in pre-established discourses that go back to the foundations of modernity and modern capitalism. Whether arts practitioners or administrators know they are engaging in discourse is irrelevant - they always are. The course aims to make us intentional about how we engage with the defining discourse of modern times - that around how we place value on people, human-made objects, and the earth's natural resources.
A&HG 5501 Contracts, Conflict, and Negotiation in the Arts
This course offers an overview of legal agreements in the arts, and gives students crucial tools for navigating related issues through a series of hands-on workshops in topics such as contract negotiation and conflict resolution. These skills will prepare students for the job market, and give them vital resources with which they can excel in future positions in arts organizations or businesses. Understanding contract terms and the power dynamics behind negotiations will also give students the crucial ability to identify and remedy contracts that might be unfair, as well as to hone their capacity to identify workplace inequities, thereby equipping them to establish and uphold business practices that are oriented towards social justice.