Are you a community arts leader, artist, volunteer board member, civic leader, or someone interested in the practical aspects of arts management and want to complete your degree? Or, are you considering pursuing a career related to the field of arts management? Gain from the nation's leading provider of professional arts education, UMass Amherst’s Arts Extension Service, by participating in the UMass Amherst University Without Walls (UWW) degree completion program Arts Administration Individualized Concentrations offered to you online. With access to arts management colleagues from around the world you will meet many others who are working at and volunteering in a wide array of arts and cultural organizations.
Courses offered through the UWW Arts Administration Individualized Concentrations will satisfy up to 60 credits toward a student’s degree. In the first semester, all UWW students take the UWW Frameworks for Understanding course - establishing a foundation for returning to college and gaining the skills you’ll need to design your degree and create your prior learning portfolio. Most students also take one of these four UWW courses in the first semester: organizational life, leadership, technology, or public policy - two of which must be taken prior to the UWW Writing about Experience course.
Upon completing your UWW core courses, you will take UWW’s Writing about Experience course, taught by UWW faculty. Here you’ll develop a prior learning portfolio that documents, describes, and analyzes learning you’ve gained through your life, work and training experiences. Once complete, your portfolio will be evaluated by faculty, and you’ll be awarded between up to 30 UMass Amherst academic credits.
Concentrations
In Arts Administration Individualized Concentrations courses you’ll have a chance to apply your knowledge immediately to a case study organization--ideally, your own nonprofit. UWW students in Arts Administration are offered eight upper-division courses specifically designed to help them build an area of concentration in an online format. Students must complete at least five upper-division courses in their area of concentration.
Arts Administration Course Topics:
- Arts Programming
- Board Development
- Strategic Planning
- Arts Marketing
- Fundraising
- Program Evaluation
- Financial Management
- Arts Education
Program Highlights
- Earn up to 30 credits for learning from your life, work and training experiences
- Customize your UMass degree with individualized concentrations at UWW
- First-rate faculty and advisors
- Transfer up to 75 credits no matter how long you earned them
Learn more about this program:
To receive more information and connect with the program manager, please click on inquire now to the right.
Sample a Course
Click here for more information on the UWW Bachelor of Arts with Arts Administration Individualized Concentrations.
Registration is administered through UMass Amherst Continuing & Professional Education. Please see Fee Schedule below.
| Type of Fee |
Amount |
Fee per credit |
$350 |
Program Fee |
$150 per semester |
Prior Learning Placeholder Fee |
$350 |
Prior Learning Assessment Fee
|
1-15 credits-$600
16-20 credits-$900
21-24 credits-$1200
25-29 credits-$1500
30-33 credits-$1800
|
| Registration Fee |
$45 |
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The University of Massachusetts is accredited by the
New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).
The Graduate School of Education (GSE) is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) , and is one of the region's leading providers of graduate-level programs in education.
Did you know?
University of Massachusetts has earned several awards for its distance learning programs, faculty and technology including:
- UMassOnline Awarded ‘Public Sector of the Year’ by Mass Technology Leadership Council , 2008
- Most Outstanding Online Teaching and Learning Program, UMass Lowell’s Online Graduate Behavioral Intervention in Autism Program, Sloan Consortium Excellence Awards, 2008
- ‘Excellence in Online Teaching’ Award, Dr. Jeannette E. Riley, Sloan Consortium Excellence Awards, 2008
- 21st Century Best Practices Award, United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
- Program of Excellence, University Continuing Education Association (UCEA)-Journalism Certificate
- Excellence in Faculty Development, Sloan-C Excellence Awards
- Excellence in Online Programming, Sloan-C Excellence Awards
- Excellence in Online Teaching, Sloan-C Excellence Awards
- UMass Amherst Isenberg MBA, Top 10 national rankings, #4 Best Professors (2005, 2006, 2007 Princeton Review: Best Business Schools rankings)
- 4th in Primary Care Education, U.S. World Reports
- Ranked 45th Best University System in the World - London Times
- Excellence in Distance Teaching Education - United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
Your past credits count no matter how long ago you took your courses. UMass Amherst allows up to 75 transfer credits from other accredited institutions toward graduation as long as the course grade is C- (2.0 grade point average) or better. All UMass Amherst general education requirements, except junior year writing, may be satisfied by courses from other institutions, and students can take courses at other schools and transfer those credits into UMass Amherst even after being admitted into UWW.
UWW students are accepted in both the fall and spring, with application deadlines for fall on May 15 and for spring, October 1. Minimum admissions requirements are: 12 credits of college course work (a composition course is strongly recommended) and a 2.00 grade point average. Application forms are located at www.umass.edu/uww/admissions_aid/index.html and must include:
- Signed, dated and completed UMass Amherst application form.
- Official transcripts from any and all colleges ever attended.
- Résumé.
- A personal statement essay 2-3 pages.
- Non-native English speakers proof of either TOEFL or two non-ESL composition courses graded B or better.
- Applicants raised in a non-English speaking country must also have official results of the TOEFL exam mailed to UWW by the application deadline. Applicants who have received a grade of “B” or better on two composition courses in an American college or university may be exempt from the TOEFL requirement. The exemption is not automatic, but based on a complete review of the academic history.
Click here to download all UWW application materials.
Availability of financial aid varies depending on matriculation and course status. Please check with your program manager or advisor to determine your eligibility. Generally, if you are matriculated in a degree program and are enrolled in a minimum of 6 credits each semester, you may qualify for financial aid. Please review our Financial Aid Checklist below.
- www.fafsa.ed.gov.
- University of Massachusetts Amherst school code number 002221.
- For more information please click here.
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