Performing Arts Concentration
Effective Fall 2025
The Arts Management Performing Arts concentration supports aspiring artists, producers, and managers committed to sustaining creative enterprise in theater, dance, and other forms of performance art.
In partnership with the college’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts, the program promotes innovative and socially responsible approaches to performance-based industries across the arts.
Academic Requirements
In addition to meeting General Education requirements and other degree requirements, all arts management majors with a Music Industry concentration must meet the following requirements:
Arts Management Core Requirements (32 credits)
- AMG 1100/Introduction to Art, Society, and the Creative Industries (3 credits)
- LBS2017/Structured Inquiry Across the Disciplines (3 credits)
- AMG 2200/Finance for the Arts I or AMG3030/Finance for the Arts II (3 credits)
- AMG3015/Leadership and Management Techniques or AMG3035/Intercultural Leadership and Management (3 credits)
- AMG 3100/Funding the Arts or AMG 4115/Arts Funding and Capital Formation (3 credits)
- AMG 3170/Arts and Entertainment Law (4 credits) or AMG4090/Law and the Arts (3 credits)
- AMG 3520/Principles of Arts Marketing (3 credits) or AMG4060/Digital Marketing and the Arts (3 credits).
- AMG 3995/Arts Management Internship (3 credits)
- SPJ 4991/Senior Project I (4 credits)
- SPJ 4990/Senior Project II (4 credits)
Additional Performing Arts Concentration Requirements
- AMG 1010/Introduction to the Performing Arts or AOA 1000/Discovering the Arts (3 credits)
- History of Performing Arts (3 credits minimum). Choose from list below.
- Performing Arts in Global Perspective (2-4 credits). Choose from list below.
- Performing Arts Production and Management (3 credits minimum). Choose from list below.
- Performing Arts electives (6 credits minimum). Choose two from list below.
- DPD 1100/The Best of 20th and 21st Century Dance (3 credits)
- DPD 2060/Western Dance History 1 (4 credits)
- DPD 2061/Western Dance History II (4 credits)
- DPD 3330/20th and 21st Century Performance 1 (2 credits)
- DPD 3331/20th and 21st Century Performance II (2 credits)
- MTH 2035/History of Music (3 credits)
- MTH 2510/Survey of Music History (3 credits)
- MTH 3400/Jazz History I (3 credits)
- MTH 3450/Jazz History II (3 credits)
- MTH 3578/Music Since 1945 (2 credits)
- MTH 4120/History of Recorded Music I: Blues to Bebop (2 credits)
- MTH 4130/History of Recorded Music II: Bebop to Hip-Hop (2 credits)
- THP 2885/Theatre Histories (3 credits)
- ANT 3345/Media and Performance in Africa (4 credits)
- DPD 1090/Dance Black America (3 credits)
- MTH 4340/World Traditions in Music and Culture (2 credits)
- THP 3190/Asian American Theater and Performance (4 credits)
- THP 3260/Theater and Asia (4 credits)
- THP 3300/Women in Performance (4 credits)
- THP 3495/Black American Dram (4 credits)
- THP 3525/LGBTQ Drama (4 credits)
- THP 3535/Contemporary Indigenous Theater and Performance (3 credits)
- THP 3650/Contemporary US Latine Theater (4 credits)
- THP 3675/Theaters of Disability (4 credits)
- AMG 3415/Front of the House Practicum (2 credits)
- AMG 4120/Creative Producing (3 credits)
- DPD 1710/Dance Production I (2 credits)
- DPD 1720/Dance Production I (2 credits)
- THP 2800/Managing the Production (3 credits)
- THP 2895/Production Practicum (4 credits)
- THP 3450/Stage Management (3 credits)
- AMG 3010 Making the Case for Arts (3 credits)
- AMG 3205 Negotiation for Artists (3 credits)
- AMG 3305/Statue Fest (3 credits)
- AMG 4100 Entrepreneurship in the Arts (3 credits)
- AMG 4155 Programming the Arts (3 credits)
- DPD 3280/Your Brain on Art (4 credits)
- LEG 3100 Copyright and Culture (3 credits)
- THP 3004/Creative Expression
- THP 3115/Immersive Storyworlds (4 credits)
- THP 3120/Gameplay and Performance (3 credits)
- THP 3130/Transmedia and Performance (4 credits)
Notes:
- Students must earn a grade of C or higher in all courses required for the major, excluding the internship and senior project. Students who do not meet these standards must repeat the course(s) or complete acceptable substitutes (for example, ECO 2085 instead of AMG 2200), chosen in consultation with the program faculty.
- AMG 1100 is a prerequisite for required upper-level arts management courses.