Arts Administration Concentration

Prerequisites: For students with an undergraduate degree not in the arts: You are required to take no less than four 3-credit hour undergraduate courses (or the equivalent) in order to develop the necessary foundation of appreciation for the arts required of arts administrators. The exact set of courses will be determined by the field of arts on which you desire to focus and in consultation with your advisor. The prerequisites vary by visual arts, dance, theater, and music. Ideally, these prerequisites will be completed prior to admission into the MPA program. However, students who opt for the arts administration concentration after being admitted to the MPA program will have to complete these prerequisites prior to admission into MPAD 6316, MPAD 6187, or MPAD 6188. Substantive professional experience in the arts field can be used as a substitute or partial substitute (e.g. students may be required to take less than 4 arts courses) for the undergraduate prerequisites at the discretion of the MPA Director.

The arts administration concentration consists of fifteen credit hours within the MPA curriculum. Students must fulfill the following requirements:

1- Students are required to take the following two courses:
MPAD 6311 Introduction to Nonprofit Management (3)
MPAD 6316 Introduction to Arts Administration (3)

2- Students must complete at least one of the following courses:
MPAD 6312 Fundraising (3)
MPAD 6314 Marketing for Arts & Nonprofit Organizations (3)

3- Students must complete one of the following courses:
MPAD 6128 Foundations of Public Policy (3)
MPAD 6142 Grant Writing and Reporting (3)
MPAD 6160 Information Systems in Public Administration (3)
MPAD 6318 Arts Administration II (3)
MPAD 6324 Financial Analysis for government and Nonprofit Organizations (3)
MPAD 6327 Internal Capacity Building in Nonprofit Organizations (3)
MPAD 6329 Nonprofit Organizations and the Environment (3)
COMM 5102 Federal Interpretation of the First Amendment (3)
COMM 6145 Communications Campaign Management (3)
COMM 6146 Media Relations (3)
HIST 6310 History Museums (3)
ANTH 5120 Intercultural Communications (3)
ENGL 5182 Information Design & Digital Publishing (3)

4- Students must complete an additional three credit hours of MPAD electives.

Appropriate non-MPAD courses may be taken within this concentration upon approval of the student’s advisor and the MPA Director.