Fine Arts Minors

Survey of arts management terms and concepts with an emphasis on the creative workforce and economy, business of art, nonprofit management, and arts career development strategies. Students develop a career plan that informs their academic directions.

Fundamentals of promotional video making and providing technical and aesthetic proficiencies used in video communications for public relations and marketing. Includes exposure to industry practices and the expertise of public relations and marketing professionals.

The course aims to de-mystify the elements of basic financial management and familiarize students with the concepts and practices of sound financial management and decision-making for the arts and cultural industries.

Prerequisite: 2110.

Emphasis on developing a Web presence and using social media tools for arts marketing and promotion. Real world projects and case discussions will assist in understanding social media marketing practices and strategies.

This problems course rotates areas of study that reflect contemporary trends and issues in arts management. Problems include, but are not limited to: creative economy, public arts commissioning, and arts entrepreneurship.

(Also offered as FDMA 375)

Students will learn roles of the motion picture producer, acquiring the skills to produce a film or digital media project. Includes choosing a viable project and optioning, developing and preparing for pre-production, production, and post-production.

This course explores a variety of topics about arts entrepreneurship, including strategies for determining a path, the evolving definition of "making it", and our own thinking about the relationship between art and business.

Course provides emerging arts professionals with the knowledge base and strategies to develop stronger arts businesses. The course will culminate with students developing an arts business plan.

Prerequisite: 2110.

The course is designed to prepare students to be successful arts administrators as they apply management principles in an arts environment. Students will develop capacity building strategies and their own professional practice in the arts.

Prerequisite: *325.

Arts management practices rotates areas of study that considers current professional practices in allied fields. Practices include, but are not limited to: public arts commissioning, arts funding development, or creative placemaking.

Students are required to complete concurrent online training and 150 internship hours onsite under a mentor's supervision.

Prerequisite: *451.

Restriction: permission of program.

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

Analyzes major instances of interdisciplinary influence and collaboration in the history of the arts.

Course may be repeated for credit up to four times, as long as the content varies with approval from Associate Dean.

An independent study in either critical studies or studio, beyond the scope of the Fine Arts interdisciplinary courses, which may occur within or outside the College of Fine Arts.

Examines topics in arts and community as a basis for exploring contemporary arts practices. Subjects will be explored through guest lectures, site visits, and student research. 

Prerequisite: ALBS 2110.

Exploring the transformative power of the creative process and the healing arts in relationship to physical, mental, and spiritual health, this course emphasizes personal discovery of health and wholeness.

Restriction: junior standing or above.

Exploring the nature of creative collaboration, the essential role communication plays in the collaborative process, and the transformative/healing potentialities that lie therein, participants will engage in multiple collaborations and improve their communication skills.

Restriction: junior standing or above.

This course explores the multidimensional and complex nature of the body while investigating how "dis-ease" within the body may reflect a person's "living story". Focuses: Allopathic medicine, major bodily systems and alternative approaches to healing.

Restriction: junior standing or above.

Devon

Topics related to the operation of a professional printmaking workshop including history, business structures, ethics and marketing.

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Hamon

Advanced techniques in lithography with emphasis on development of skills necessary for the master printer. Lecture and practicum topics include theory and chemistry of lithography, collaboration, edition printing, workshop management and paper.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

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Students will study contemporary models of arts-based community projects from around the world and work on a single arts-based community project in collaboration with a local organization.

Restriction: junior standing or above.

This course provides an opportunity for advanced, concentrated, and individually directed study in the area of the healing arts requiring research, writing, and/or practice.

Prerequisite: *401 and *402 and *403.

Restriction: junior standing or above, and permission of instructor.

This course is the final project for B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts. The course topics and focus center on professional practices and critical discourse for interdisciplinary and collaborative artists.

Prerequisite: 284 and *395.

This internship will be collaboratively designed by student and faculty advisor with the goal of providing a more comprehensive and in-depth experience of facilitating healing arts in either a medical or community setting.

Prerequisite: *401 and *402 and *403 and (*486 or *487).

Restriction: junior standing or above, and permission of instructor.