ProgramsDegrees and CertificatesBachelor of Arts with Arts Administration Individualized ConcentrationsAbout the Program Tuition and Fees Accreditation Admissions Financial Aid 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:
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Arts Management in the News Business West-April 14, 2008 Ed.
UWW's Arts Administration Program Represents a Degree of Progress What do a mural and a balance sheet have in common? Ask an artist, and he may scratch his head. Ask an accountant, and he’ll probably compare costs of supplies versus profit from the sale of the piece. For some artists, it’s all about their passion for a chosen medium, whether it be theater, paint, glass, or design. But what happens when their creativity becomes something more than just a whim, perhaps even a moneymaker? |
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