Arts Management

Arts Management Minor

Arts Management is an interdisciplinary minor that equips students with the knowledge, skills, and experience to balance administrative systems and creative processes to ensure both the artistic integrity and economic sustainability of arts and cultural organizations. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical experience in business, accounting, marketing, law, and entrepreneurship with tracks in theatre, dance, art, art history, music, and film, students gain the confidence to become leaders in the field. 

This minor will prepare students to be stewards of art, artists, and other cultural resources. This minor should equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to manage and promote the arts effectively within diverse communities and organizations.

A minor in Arts Management requires at least seven classes (minimum of 21 credits). A student may not use more than nine credits that are also used to meet the requirements of another major or minor.

Students must take one course from each of the following categories. 

1. Accounting
   • ACCT 100 – Introduction to Accounting
2. Arts Management
   • THTR 254/BUS 354 – Arts Management
3. Management & Leadership
   • BUS 217 – Management and Organizational Behavior
4. Strategy
   Students must take one course from the following:
   
   • BUS 160 – Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Business
   • BUS 211 – Marketing Management
   • BUS 370 – Integrated Marketing Communications
   • BUS 381 – Social Entrepreneurship
   • BUS 374 – Rogue Marketing
5. Legal & Ethical Issues
   Students must take one course from the following:
   
   • ARTH 146 – Introduction to Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies: Problems of Ownership and Curation
   • BUS 240 – Ethics, Business, & Society
   • BUS 345 – Business Ethics
   • BUS 347 – Intellectual Property
   • BUS 348 – Foundations in Business Law
   • SOAN 248 – Producing Culture from the Margins
   • SOAN 239 – Collective Memory: Society, Culture, Identity, and Power
   • PHIL 264 – Aesthetics
6. Arts Practice
   • DANC 110 – University Dance
   • DANC 120 – Fundamentals of Contemporary Modern Dance Practice
   • DANC 202 – Dance Europe
   • DANC 215 – World Dance Technique
   • DANC 225 – Contemporary Modern Dance Practice
   • DANC 230 – Musical-Theater Dance Technique
   • DANC 233 – Movement for Actors
   • DANC 250 – Aerial Dance Techniques
   • DANC 292 – Ballet Technique
   • THTR 109 – University Theater 
   • THTR 141 – Intro to Acting: Foundations of Acting
   • THTR 241 – One Act Performance
   • THTR 242 – Musical Theatre
   • THTR 342 – Creating Meaning
   • FILM 222 – Writing for the Screen and Stage
   • FILM 237S – Field Documentary
   • FILM 238 – Documentary Filmmaking
   • FILM 252 – Preparation for Field Documentary on Human Rights in Ghana
   • FILM 253 – Field Documentary on Human Rights in Ghana
   • FILM 255 – Seven-Minute Shakespeare
   • FILM 260 – Write, Direct, Shoot: Narrative Filmmaking
   • ARTS 242 – Photography in the Environment
   • ARTS 111 – Drawing I
   • ARTS 112 – Drawing II
   • ARTS 115 – Contemporary Practice in Drawing
   • ARTS 120 – Photography I
   • ARTS 121 – Light Studies and Optical Culture
   • ARTS 131 – Design I
   • ARTS 217 – Painting I
   • ARTS 218 – Painting II
   • ARTS 219 – Painted Light: Interpreting the Landscape
   • ARTS 220 – Photography II
   • ARTS 224 – Color Photography
   • ARTS 227 – Printmaking I
   • ARTS 228 – Printmaking II
   • ARTS 231 – Introductory Sculpture: Materials and Methods
   • ARTS 232 – Intermediate Sculpture: Expanded Material Practice
   • ARTS 237 – Portable Radicals: Soft Sculpture
   • MUS 109A – Contratrici 
   • MUS 109B – Glee Club
   • MUS 110 – University Singers
   • MUS 112S – Chamber Ensemble Strings
   • MUS 113 – University Wind Ensemble
   • MUS 114 – University Orchestra
   • MUS 115 – University Jazz Ensemble
7. Arts Practicum
   Students must take one course (at least 3 credits)  from the following:
   
   • THTR 361 – Stage Directing
   • THTR 209 – Production and Stage Management
   • THTR 453 – Internship
   • DANC 402 – Directed Individual Study
   • FILM 295 – Special Topics in Film  
   • ARTH 398 – Seminar in Museum Studies
   • ARTH 453 – Internship in Arts Management
   • ARTS 453 – Internship in Arts Management
   • MUS 423 – Directed Individual Project  
     
     When appropriate & approved:
   • DANC 390 – Special Topics in Dance
   • THTR 403 – Directed Individual Study 
   • FILM 403 – Directed Individual Study 
   • FILM 423 – Directed Individual Study 

Note: Students in the Arts Management minor may not also major in Business Administration. 

For more information contact Jenny Davies, Theatre, Dance and Film Studies Department Head and/or Amanda Bower, Business Administration Department Head.