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M.A. in Arts Management Curriculum

The program consists of 12 courses for a total of 48 units. There are four required courses in management, four required courses in the humanities, and four elective courses. Subject to faculty approval, a student may transfer up to 8 graduate-level semester units of credit towards the MA.

The program may be completed in two years of full-time study. A student who can demonstrate significant management training may request a waiver of one or more required courses and substitute elective courses. The student, with the help and approval of an advisor, determines the actual arrangement and sequence of courses taken.

Management (16 units)

The Drucker Difference (4 units)
Accounting and Finance for Nonprofits (4 units)
Organizational Theory and Behavior (4 units)
Marketing (4 units)

Arts & Humanities (16 Units)

Theory and Practice of Arts & Cultural Management (4 units)
Arts and Cultural Policy (4 units)
Research Tool * ( 4 units)
Arts Consulting Clinic * (4 units)

Areas of concentration/ Elective courses (16 Units)

Archival Studies- Cultural Studies- Educational Studies- Evaluation- Human Resources- Information Systems and Technology- Leadership- Museum Studies- Music- Nonprofit Management- Organizational Sciences- Politics and Policy- Strategy- Transdiciplinary courses.

*Research Tool

Only approved courses will satisfy this requirement. Depending on the needs and interest of the student, this may include statistics, quantitative methods, research methods and technologies or other relevant course with approval of faculty member.

*You may fulfill the requirement by registering for the summer workshop, HUM 340

*Arts Consulting Clinic

In your last year in the program, you must complete a capstone project—An Arts Consulting Clinic and Final Report. It is a graded, 4 units (100 hrs) semester-long project culminating in a formal consulting report.

To satisfy this requirement of the program, you must enroll in AM 400 Arts Consulting Clinic in your final year of study. The required deliverables are status reports during the semester, a final written report plus a final presentation to the organization attended by the faculty supervisor of your consulting project. The specific project deliverables will be shaped to the organization’s needs and will be approved by the faculty supervisor and the Director of the Arts Management Program before being sent to the organization. The final written consulting report will be reviewed by the Director of the Arts Management Program and approved by your supervisor.

The Arts Management department will assist in partnering students with a local art or cultural nonprofit organization. The students will be partnered according to their professional backgrounds and interests if possible.

The participating organizations will be selected by the Arts Management department through an application process. The selected organizations will provide the student with a project and a problem or challenge to be solved with the expected goals and objectives. The organization will assign a liaison who will provide the necessary information and oversight of the project.