Friday, November 21, 2008

Arts Management Program

So here at Albright, we don't have Majors and Minors. We have Programs, co-Concentrations, and Concentrations. The Programs are like Minors. Concentrations are like majors and co-Concentrations are sort of like demi-Majors to make it easier for students to have a double-major (i.e. two co-concentrations is only a few more classes than a single concentration).

There is a task-force here looking at bringing Arts Administration to our students. We pretty quickly agreed that we should get an Arts Admin Program going ASAP. I've submitted a proposal to the appropriate powers-that-be so we'll see how that goes. A Program has only five courses so I needed to be pretty selective in what we submitted. Here's what we went with for the initial submission - I haven't heard a response from the PTB yet so this may change:
1) An Introduction to Arts Management
2) An art production class - painting, acting, singing etc
3) An art history class - again, could be in Theatre, Music, or Art and I've sort of included crit classes in this category as well
4) A business class - management or marketing
5) An internship in Arts Administration