Program Description
The Arts Management B.A. Program, offered by the School of the Arts, is perfect for students who have a passion for the arts and want an arts-centered career. The curriculum combines:
- a broad-based education in the liberal arts and sciences
- management and financial courses vital to leading and improving arts organizations
- theory and practice in the visual or performing arts
- two kinds of experiential learning that deepen and sharpen skills and theory: internships in arts organizations and the capstone experience of a year-long independent project.
This program is designed for students seeking employment in the arts industries as professional arts managers and managerial staff. Its goal is to produce arts administration professionals who possess a practitioner’s commitment to and knowledge of the arts, combined with the financial and management skills needed in business.
The sequence of courses in this major will impart the knowledge and skills that are required to manage performing and visual arts organizations, such as opera companies, galleries and museums, dance companies, exhibitions and venues, concerts, festivals, community art centers, record companies, and other areas of the entertainment and arts industries.
- Freshman and Sophomore Years:
Basic Principles of Accounting
Introduction to Arts Management
Fundamentals of Marketing
Principles of Business Management - Junior and Senior Years:
Fundraising and Development in the Arts
Arts and Entertainment Law
Marketing the Arts
Two courses in performing or visual arts history
Arts Management Internships (one on-campus and one off-campus)
Senior Project in Arts Management
Please note that, because this is a relatively new program, specific course requirements are subject to change.
For more information, visit the Arts Management site in Academic Programs.
Updated Feb. 11, 2008