Arts Administration
Courses
AADM 500 Foundations of Cultural Practice 3.0 Credits
This course utilizes an ecosystems approach to examine the organization and function of arts and culture in the United States. Students will gain a greater understanding of cultural policy, the creative economy, arts and culture’s impact, and its role within communities. We explore the wide range of enterprises and business structures that comprise the arts, culture, and creative sector. Students examine, reflect upon, and discuss topical articles, reports, and other required materials. Real-world examples, assigned and self-directed readings, and experts from the field provide context to a range of topical materials and subjects. Students engage in group and individual research projects and presentations, and practical exercises, to build their skills as arts, cultural, and creative leaders.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 600 Community Cultural Engagement 3.0 Credits
This course explores the relationship between arts, culture, people, and place. Using the lens of creative democracy, students will learn how arts and culture organizations build competency in creative placemaking, cultural planning, powering community change, and measuring impact. Students will reckon with questions of equity, inclusion, and justice in the cultural sector. A community-based learning course, Drexel students will learn side by side with artists and culture workers in an applied, experiential setting. Students will gain competency through projects and presentations, and practical exercises, to advance their skills as arts, cultural, and creative leaders.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
AADM 660 Advancing Cultural Policy 3.0 Credits
This course looks at how culture is understood and supported in the United States and abroad. Students will explore elements of cultural policy including private versus public support, issues of audience and cultural heritage, censorship and repression, globalization and the hybridization of culture. We examine a broad range of art forms including collecting and presenting institutions, creative industries, and web-based art forms. Students will select and study an individual country in-depth while developing expertise in issues of cultural policy. Examine debates and policy formation around cultural identity, colonial occupations and looting, and restitution, which continue to be key cultural topics in the 2020s.
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 698 Capstone Development 3.0 Credits
This course guides students through the thesis/capstone process, during which students will work toward completing either a traditional thesis or a capstone paper, demonstrating expertise in a specific area of the field of arts administration. This course combines independent fieldwork that will vary by student with structured assignments and feedback to allow students enough structure to successfully progress with their thesis or capstone project.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 2 times for 9 credits
Prerequisites: AADM 785 [Min Grade: B-]
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 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 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 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 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