Fine Arts Minors

Minor in Fine Arts

The College of Fine Arts offers a minor in interdisciplinary studies in Fine Arts for a total of 18 credit hours:

• Six hours: FA 284 and either FA 329 or ARTH / MA / MUSE / THEA / DANC 487
• Twelve hours: electives from FA 329, 384, 394, ARTH / MA / MUSE / THEA / DANC 484, 487, and PHIL *467

Total: 18 hours

Distributed Minor within Fine Arts

(Restricted to Computer Science majors in the IFDM program)

Students majoring in Computer Science who have been admitted in Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media may select a distributed minor in Fine Arts. The distributed minor in Fine Arts requires:

Minor in Arts Management

The College of Fine Arts offers an interdisciplinary minor in Arts Management (AM) providing students with an educational foundation to explore current and emerging professional practices within a variety of career paths. The AM minor has a flexible framework that is both practical and versatile to meet individual students’ interests regardless what major they are pursuing. Students in the Arts Management minor may pursue their interests in one of five career pathways: Arts Development, Arts Management, Community and Public Art, Arts Entrepreneurship, and Arts Small Business. Within each of the five career paths student will find they can develop a foundation in which to pursue a wide range of career choices including: small business ownership of a gallery, recording studio, or dance studio; self-employed arts consultant, commissioned portrait artist, free-lance art historian researcher/writer or an independent contractor for arts services to state agencies; public relations director for a theater, director of an arts center, community arts program director, or an arts development officer. In addition to framing course clusters aligned with career paths, the Arts Management minor offers a rigorous internship program that can also inform career choices in an array of arts management fields or further study in any number of nationally known Arts Management graduate programs.

The Arts Management minor is possible through the collaboration of the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, College of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and Planning, and the Anderson School of Business.

The Arts Management minor is 25 credits (beyond the UNM core requirement in Fine Arts) consisting of the following course work:

Note: There are different advantages associated with taking the internship prior to choosing an AM pathway or choosing to finish the AM pathway courses prior to taking the internship. Meet with your advisor to determine which option would work best with your academic schedule.

The Arts Management minor requires students to participate in an internship experience for credit; however, students can take up to six internship credits. To initiate an internship students submit an Arts Management Internship application available through the CFA Advisement Office or can be downloaded from the Arts Management Web site. Application for AM internships must be submitted the semester prior to the internship (October 1^st for Spring Semester; March 15^th for Summer Session; June 15^th for Fall Semester). The first internship placement is made within the College of Fine Arts in one of several sites and/or programs including: UNM Art Museum, Rodey Theatre, Theatre-X, Popejoy Theatre, Keller Music Hall, John Sommers Gallery, Tamarind Institute, CFA Development Office, or with programs such as Words Afire, Experiments in Film, or Arts in Medicine. For the internship to count towards the AM minor requirements students must enroll in FA 495 Arts Management Internship the same semester they are interning. 

Students taking an additional four credit hours of internship are encouraged to take this internship off-campus. The Supervisor of Community Education will arrange an internship in consultation with the student or the student can identify an internship opportunity specific to their career interests. Off campus internships are encouraged so that students can begin to make professional contacts in the career field of their interest.

Arts Management Career Paths

(9 credits required from one path)

Arts Development

Arts Organizational Management

Community and Public Arts

Arts Entrepreneurship