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 1000 – Introduction to Accounting
2. Arts Management
   • THTR 2835/BUS 3835 – Arts Management
3. Management & Leadership
   • BUS 2200 – Management and Organizational Behavior
4. Strategy
   Students must take one course from the following:
   
   • ENT 1000 – Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Business
   • BUS 2300 – Marketing Management
   • BUS 3320 – Integrated Marketing Communications
   • BUS 3440 – Social Entrepreneurship
   • BUS 3325 – Rogue Marketing
5. Legal & Ethical Issues
   Students must take one course from the following:
   
   • ARTH 1406 – Introduction to Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies: Problems of Ownership and Curation
   • BUS 2400 – Ethics, Business, & Society
   • BUS 3400 – Business Ethics
   • BUS 3481 – Intellectual Property
   • BUS 3480 – Foundations in Business Law
   • SOAN 2361 – Producing Culture from the Margins
   • SOAN 2309 – Collective Memory: Society, Culture, Identity, and Power
   • PHIL 2600 – Aesthetics
6. Arts Practice
   • DANC 1201 – University Dance
   • DANC 1202 – Fundamentals of Contemporary Modern Dance Practice
   • DANC 2402 – Dance Europe
   • DANC 2203 – World Dance Technique
   • DANC 2202 – Contemporary Modern Dance Practice
   • DANC 2204 – Musical-Theater Dance Technique
   • DANC 2205 – Movement for Actors
   • DANC 2207 – Aerial Dance Techniques
   • DANC 2206 – Ballet Technique
   • THTR 1201 – University Theater 
   • THTR 1203 – Intro to Acting: Foundations of Acting
   • THTR 2203 – One Act Performance
   • THTR 2101 – Musical Theatre
   • THTR 3203 – Creating Meaning
   • FILM 2402 – Writing for the Screen and Stage
   • FILM 2105 – Field Documentary
   • FILM 2101 – Documentary Filmmaking
   • FILM 2301 – Preparation for Field Documentary on Human Rights in Ghana
   • FILM 2303 – Field Documentary on Human Rights in Ghana
   • N/A – Seven-Minute Shakespeare
   • FILM 2103 – Write, Direct, Shoot: Narrative Filmmaking
   • ARTS 2205 – Photography in the Environment
   • ARTS 1101 – Drawing I
   • ARTS 2101 – Drawing II
   • ARTS 1102 – Contemporary Practice in Drawing
   • ARTS 1201 – Photography I
   • ARTS – Light Studies and Optical Culture
   • ARTS 1601 – Design I
   • ARTS 1301 – Painting I
   • ARTS 2301 – Painting II
   • ARTS 2302 – Painted Light: Interpreting the Landscape
   • ARTS 2201 – Photography II
   • ARTS 2203 – Color Photography
   • ARTS 1401 – Printmaking I
   • ARTS 2401 – Printmaking II
   • ARTS 1501 – Introductory Sculpture: Materials and Methods
   • ARTS 2501 – Intermediate Sculpture: Expanded Material Practice
   • ARTS 2504 – Portable Radicals: Soft Sculpture
   • MUS 1009A – Contratrici 
   • MUS 1009B – Glee Club
   • MUS 1010 – University Singers
   • MUS 1012 – Chamber Ensemble Strings
   • MUS 1013 – University Wind Ensemble
   • MUS 1014 – University Orchestra
   • MUS 1015 – University Jazz Ensemble
7. Arts Practicum
   Students must take one course (at least 3 credits)  from the following:
   
   • THTR 3201 – Stage Directing
   • THTR 2801 – Production and Stage Management
   • THTR 2303 – Internship
   • DANC 4003 – Directed Individual Study
   • FILM 2905 – Special Topics in Film  
   • ARTH 3908 – Seminar in Museum Studies
   • ARTH 4503 – Internship in Arts Management
   • ARTS 4503 – Internship in Arts Management
   • MUS 4023 – Directed Individual Project  
     
     When appropriate & approved:
   • DANC 3901 – Special Topics in Dance
   • THTR 4003 – Directed Individual Study 
   • FILM 4003 – Directed Individual Study 
   • FILM 4203 – 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.