Arts Management Core Courses
All courses are Three credits unless otherwise specified
AAP 501 : Why Manage the Arts
Instructor: Mr. Patrick Fagan
Description
This course asks the question - Why Manage the Arts? Devising creative solutions in arts management: drawing upon arts management theory and practice. This course includes the many ways in which art meets its public including those without money exchanging hands. It aims to show why the interaction between artist and audience has necessitated and created different forms of management. It is a participatory course which examines a variety of international models of effective arts management and searches at all points for creative solutions. Two main case studies will be presented of local arts companies which have national and international arts management issues.
AAP 502 : Arts Management & Society
Instructor: Dr. Ruth Bereson
Description
This course will provide the context for inquiry into the study of Arts Management. It is designed to provide an overview of the essential questions which Arts Managers need to pose in order to effectively enter the field. It will be historical and analytical in nature providing students with an understanding of the ways in which arts have functioned in different societies over time and in the present day. It will cover basic questions of anthropology, philosophy, economics and law in order to assist students to understand the connections between these fields.
The course will proceed by lecture, seminar and discussion and will encourage students to apply the analysis to societies that they know well by drawing from contemporary examples.
Rationale
Increasingly in advanced societies it is governments that designate what is to be known as art. This course will explore the fact that the arts continue to exist in such societies in many forms and not only those to which governments ascribe value. These include the bucolic or folk arts, the commercial arts and the arts which come to us through religious practice. All are promoted quite independently of government and have their own distinct forms and purpose.
Drawing examples from history and from many different countries this course will suggest an analysis of the arts in society based on the premise that the arts manager needs to be as fully aware of the complexities posed by the arts in society as he or she is aware of state policies or government legislation.
AAP 508 : Arts & Cultural Policy and Diplomacy
Instructor: Dr. Ruth Bereson / Dr. Carole Rosenstein
description
This course is designed to introduce
the subject of cultural policy to students whose interests concern the areas
of public policy in the arts, culture and society. The relationship between
arts, culture and the state is at the core of the subject. It requires the development
of a critical understanding of the relationship between public policy and artistic
and cultural expression in order to successfully negotiate its objectives.
The course will provide an overview of the critical factors which affect the
development of cultural policy. It will investigate the nature of cultural policy
by looking at the history of cultural policies in different countries under
varied political regimes and analyze the structure of institutions which have
been put in place to promote policies. The course will be held in seminar style
and approached on a thematic basis.
AAP 509 : Research in Arts Management (3) (Fall 2007)
Instructor: Dr. Ruth Bereson / Dr. Carole Rosenstein
description
This seminar style course will address research in the field of arts management and cultural policy. After initial introductory classes in research principles students will be encouraged to undertake research into contemporary issues in the field drawing from primary and secondary source material. Emphasis is given to academic interpretation of contemporary issues in the field.
AAP 511 : Practicum in Arts Management (3) (F/Spring/Summer 2007)
Instructor: Mr. Patrick Fagan
description
The Arts Management practicum is intended to assist the student to gain important professional skills or to provide the groundwork for a theoretical course of study. As students’ needs differ dependent upon their prior experience it is envisaged that the Practicum will have four potential modes: group study, internship, elective, or independent study.
AAP 512 : Final Project Guidance (3)
description
Students will begin their final project under guidance by the instructor. The project will involve the development of a practical solution to an arts management problem which is agreed upon by their instructor. An example of such a project could be for example, the investigation of a new ticketing system for theatre companies in Buffalo.
AAP 513 : Final Thesis Guidance (3)
description
Students will begin their thesis under guidance by the instructor. A thesis is an extended research essay which explores through different methodological forms of analysis a significant question in the field of arts management. Students will develop a research oriented project and will develop a question, hypothesis, methodology, and analytical and theoretical underpinning to the problem they are studying.
Management Core Courses
AAP 551/MGG 501 : Introduction to Business I
Instructor: Muriel Anderson
description
MGG 501-502, Introduction to Business, is a foundation sequence of two courses intended to prepare students with little or no background in management for master’s-level study in specific business disciplines. At the end of the two semesters, students will: understand the general environment of doing business and the factors that influence its conduct; be generally familiar with the purpose and different ways of doing business; have built the necessary conceptual skills for making business decisions and plans; have enhanced their organizational behavior skills and personal interaction skills as needed in a global business environment; and have attained basic technical knowledge of the different types of the different aspects of the business.
AAP 552/MGG 502 : Introduction to Business II
Instructor: Muriel Anderson
description
MGG 501-502, Introduction to Business, is a foundation sequence of two courses intended to prepare students with little or no background in management for master’s-level study in specific business disciplines. At the end of the two semesters, students will: understand the general environment of doing business and the factors that influence its conduct; be generally familiar with the purpose and different ways of doing business; have built the necessary conceptual skills for making business decisions and plans; have enhanced their organizational behavior skills and personal interaction skills as needed in a global business environment; and have attained basic technical knowledge of the different types of the different aspects of the business.
Law Core Courses
L585 Legal Problems in Arts Management
Instructors: Dr Thomas Hyde, Andy Finch
description
This seminar style course will provide an overview of taxation law, not for profit corporation laws and immigration laws as they pertain to the arts and cultural sectors.
AAP586 Law, Policy, and Intellectual Property: Arts Management
Instructor: Robert Reis
description
This course seeks to catalog and addresses broad issues of rights, duties and liabilities affecting those who maange, display, distribute, curate, work with and safeguard the arts. It considers contemporary Intellectual Property as well as residual state laws that form the body of contemporary Arts Management.
Core Electives
AAP 510 : Issues in Music Management
Instructor: Philip Rehard
description
This seminar course will focus upon
issues in the area of music management with which students should be familiar.
Particular emphasis is placed upon the ability to design a fiscally responsible
program which incorporates the various elements of program design such as contract,
marketing, artistic management, venue management and audience development.
Students will attain a working knowledge of the fundamentals of music management
and education through lecture/seminars, case studies, group and individual research.
The elective management topic is designed for students who are interested in
elements specific to the area of Music Management.
AAP 514 : International Issues in Theatre Management
Instructor: Patrick Fagan
description
The field of theatre management is becoming increasingly complex as circuits depend on national and international collaborations. Theatre managers therefore need to be able to develop a lateral understanding of this subject knowing when there are legal and fiscal considerations to be taken into account which respond distinctly to different cultural environments. This seminar style course will address research in the field of international theatre and venue management. The course will follow a series of themes and be in a seminar and case study format. The emphasis is given to historical overview of the field, case studies and contemporary issues in the field.
AAP 515 : Public Culture
Instructor: Dr. Carole Rosenstein
description
This course investigates the principles, foundations, institutions, agencies and programs that make up public culture in the United States. Unlike most investigations of the U.S. cultural sector, this course focuses on the public sector rather than the nonprofit or the commercial sector, on government as a producer – and not a “sponsor” - of cultural forms, activities and institutions. Public culture includes both cultural institutions that are seen to safeguard and promote the nation’s heritage and identity, and cultural programs run as and by government agencies. The forms of arts and culture that are included in and excluded from this category - and the ways in which that boundary is maintained - will be a subject of critical review throughout.
This course will be particularly valuable for arts managers who wish to work in or with public agencies, but it also will provide fundamentals for arts managers who hope to work in community-based and community-responsive arts and those who need to account for and articulate the public value of arts and culture. (Show me one who doesn’t!) Students will be required to write a final case study of public culture activities, programs or administrative infrastructures in Buffalo.
AAP 516: Museum Studies I
Instructor: Dr. Bingyi Huang
description
This course examines the evolution, function, organization, and architecture of museums as cultural institutions as well as a collection of events which witness the evolution of human history. It will closely study a number of important museums, with a concentration on their mission, development, curatorial approach, exhibitions, organization and collection-building. Students are required to participate in various projects that will give insights into documenting, interpreting, and exhibiting art works to of their choosing. The course will combine the pragmatic aspects of museum functions (such as management, fund-raising, space design, conservation) with the theoretic issues generated by museums (such as curatorial approaches, controversy generated by museum exhibitions and public outreach). In this course you are strongly encouraged to develop your own project and to be creative with you theoretical and pragmatic approaches.
Electives
AAP 507 : Special Topics in Arts Management
description
This seminar course will focus upon current issues in the area of arts management. It will draw from issues such as ‘the culture wars’, ‘public space and arts management’, ‘censorship and the arts’, ‘entrepreneurship and the arts’, which arise constantly in the national and international cultural arena.
rationale
Students of Arts Management should be able to take the conventional skills they have developed in formal courses and be able to apply them to contemporary topics using a range of analytical and methodological tools. It is important for future arts managers to be able to keep abreast of new debates in the arena of arts and cultural management and to know how to investigate such issues.