Arts Administration
Courses
AADM 505 Overview of the Arts 3.0 Credits
Examines the role of culture in communities and how it is manifested. Explores how arts, culture, and creativity are valued in society through examinations of the role of professional artists, the history of the field, cultural heritage, cultural democracy, and current trends in research and professional practice.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 510 Writing for the Arts 3.0 Credits
Covers strategies for writing non-marketing materials in the arts such as funding proposals, advocacy letters, board communications, and persuasive speeches.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 520 Creative Enterprise and Innovation 3.0 Credits
Explores the wide range of enterprises that make up the arts, cultural, and creative sector with an emphasis on successful business structures and practices. The role of innovation and innovative practices in start-up creative entities as well as established cultural institutions is studied as a means to develop leadership skills to create sustainable and resilient programs and organizations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 660 International Cultural Policy 3.0 Credits
The course explores some of the major themes in international cultural policy today: globalization, culture and development, diversity and identity, and cultural diplomacy, in five different regions of the world (Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa).
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 690 Equitable Cultural Practices 3.0 Credits
This course will examine equitable practices in museums, arts, and cultural organizations. Through readings and case examples, students investigate racial and social identities that influence practices within museums, arts, and cultural organizations. Students will design a strategic action plan to disrupt patterns of inequities within a cultural organization, presenting it during the final class for feedback from peers in a supportive and co-creative manner.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 720 Leadership in the Arts 3.0 Credits
Explores the concepts of leadership and examines leadership experiences and potential as they relate to the field of non-profit arts and culture.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 731 Human Resources Management in the Arts 3.0 Credits
Examines human resource management and labor relations specific to non-profit arts and cultural organizations. Students will learn about labor union contract negotiations when working with performing and visual arts institutions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 740 Production Laboratory in the Arts 3.0 Credits
Provides practical experience in artistic production or management. This course may be used for a student’s individual exploration of any area of arts production or management, as approved by the program director.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
AADM 741 Arts Entrepreneurship 3.0 Credits
Provides students with hands-on learning and practice related to the development and implementation of an arts enterprise, program, or service. Students will have the opportunity to use the course to take a creative idea from conception to implementation. Working individually or in small groups, students can pursue any type of creative enterprise, program or service, from new arts ventures to new programs in existing organizations to creating services for the sector.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 742 Advanced Fund Development 3.0 Credits
This course covers an advanced level of fundraising and development topics, including major gifts, planned giving, and capital campaigns. Building upon knowledge gained from the program's two core courses in development and fundraising, this is an elective for students who wish to gain a deeper knowledge of development policies and practices in order to further focus their education, and possibly their master's thesis and/or careers, on this aspect of arts administration.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 745 Arts in Education 3.0 Credits
This course examines arts education with a focus on improving educational programs within schools, community groups and arts organizations. Concentration is placed on educational best practices, creating and cultivating school and community connections, and evaluating organization needs. Topics covered include advocacy, assessment, curriculum standards and national trends.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 746 Creative Placemaking 3.0 Credits
This course explores art practices that bear location and geography in mind, and seek to transform place through the inclusion of creative interventions. It includes examination of the economic and social impacts of arts, arts-led gentrification and neighborhood change, and the contemporary state of placemaking practices in the field. The course offers students the chance to be up to date on one of the driving issues of today's arts funding landscape.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 752 Performing Arts Management 3.0 Credits
Provides an introduction to and overview of management practices of non-profit performing arts organizations. The primary focus will be on current theory and practice in day-to-day operations, management, and associated planning for the performing arts: theatrical, dance and music organizations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 753 Visual Arts Organization Management 3.0 Credits
Special problems and challenges related to managing visual arts organizations. The course will build on learning from foundation-level courses, discussing issues related to managing art museums, art schools, galleries, public art programs, and more.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 755 Community Cultural Planning 3.0 Credits
This course explores the practice of community cultural planning, investigating the work from technical and philosophical approaches. Students will learn the stages of a community cultural planning process and various methods for implementing such a process. Throughout the course, attention will be given to: the intersections of arts, culture, and community; the responsibilities of leading or participating in a community cultural planning process; and, ways to thoughtfully and authentically engage with a community in this work.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 757 Political Activism in the Arts 3.0 Credits
Course examines the strategies, trends and dynamics of arts based issues from a variety of political perspectives. Using case studies, class will explore systems that influence activism in politics and the arts and instances when art has been politically controversial, its causes and consequences.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 759 Cultural Organizations in Transition 3.0 Credits
Identifies issues and trends that will have an impact on cultural organizations of today and extends the examination of those impacts into the future through forecasting and scenario creation. Uses multiple disciplines such as economics, technology, and organizational development to assess influence.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 785 Research Design in the Arts 3.0 Credits
This course covers research design for the arts and culture field, including qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods. Students identify and shape a research question related to the arts and culture field, then conduct an in-depth literature review, shape a methodology for researching questions, and report their findings in a thesis.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 798 Thesis Development 3.0 Credits
Enables students to begin work on original research related to the thesis, a scholarly work related to the student's individual research interest. In the first term, students conduct primary research, including fieldwork such as interviews, observations, focus groups and surveys. In the second term, students write and revise their written thesis document.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 1 times for 6 credits
Prerequisites: AADM 785 [Min Grade: C]
AADM 799 Thesis Completion 0.5 Credits
This course allows the student to work with a thesis advisor to complete the thesis, which began during AADM 798. This optional course will be taken only by students needing more than two terms to complete the thesis.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 5 times for 3 credits
Prerequisites: AADM 798 [Min Grade: CR]
AADM I599 Independent Study in Arts Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
AADM I699 Independent Study in Arts Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
AADM I799 Independent Study in Arts Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
AADM I899 Independent Study in Arts Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
AADM I999 Independent Study in Arts Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
AADM T580 Special Topics in Arts Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
AADM T680 Special Topics in Arts Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
AADM T780 Special Topics in Arts Administration 0.5-9.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
AADM T880 Special Topics in Arts Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
AADM T980 Special Topics in Arts Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
