The Bachelor of Arts in Arts Management is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and experience to manage arts and cultural organizations and creative endeavors. The Arts Management core curriculum provides a solid foundation of essential current business skills and practices within the context of a global cultural environment. The three concentrations allow student to further focus on their particular area of interest: Creative Industries, Performing Arts Management or Visual Arts Management. The program bridges theory and practice throughout the curriculum and culminates in a capstone practicum or internship.

As a result of successfully completing program requirements, students should be able to:

• apply fundamental business skills and acumen in the management of cultural organizations and creative endeavors;
• employ critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills to the entrepreneurial development of cultural and creative endeavors;
• analyze trends, opportunities, and challenges in cultural and creative organizations in a global and technological environment;
• manage discipline-specific projects, events, performances, or exihbitions that reflect current industry practices; and
• assess how the business practices of arts organizations and the creative industries can be responsive to issues of diversity, equity and inclusion.