Prerequisites: ARMG 105 and permission of the instructor. This weeklong, intensive course in New York City will provide students with critical appreciation for a broad spectrum of major cultural institutions focused on visual arts, dance, theatre, and music. Students will attend performances, and engage in discussions with arts managers and artists. This course will be offered before classes resume in January or during Spring Break. Students are responsible for the cost of their transportation as well as lodging, meals, and tickets estimated at $1000.

Prerequisite: ARMG 105. This course combines theory with the practical skills required of museum and art gallery professionals. Students will examine the critical issues surrounding collections, exhibitions, conservation, governance, and ethics. In addition, students will gain firsthand experience that provides a firm foundation in skills such as scholarship, connoisseurship, object handling, and exhibition installation that are considered fundamental knowledge in museums and art galleries. Offered alternate years. III.O, V.6a

Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Students will be introduced to the practical aspects of presenting artistic events on the campus. Projects will include the organization, promotion, and mounting of exhibitions, the booking and promotion of concerts, theatre, or dance productions, or other appropriate arts activities. A minimum of 80 hours is required. This course is offered on a P/CR/NC grading option only.

Prerequisite: ARMG 105. This course will examine the various ways in which objects reach the art market, concentrating on the role of auction houses, galleries, and museums in shaping the treatment of art as a cultural commodity. An understanding of central issues that influence the buying and selling of art–tax laws, the perception of artworks as investments, and aesthetic appreciation of the works–will be reached through lectures, readings, and visits to galleries, auctions, museums and private collections. This course cannot be taken on a P/CR/NC grading option. III.W, V.6a

Prerequisite: ARMG 105. This course examines the fundraising process in non-profit arts organizations. This includes major theoretical foundations and general fundraising principles as well as a variety of fundraising techniques, sources of donatoins, and key aspects of managing the fundraising and development process. The course combines applied and conceptual study, and provides students with opportunities to apply concepts and techniques through assignments and projects. Offered alternate years.

Prerequisites: One 100-level ARMG course and permission of the instructor. The study of an intermediate level topic by an individual student or by a small group of students under the immediate supervision of a faculty member.

Prerequisites: One 100-level ARMG course, one 200-level ARMG course, and permission of the instructor. Pursuit of an upper level research project determined in advance by the student in consultation with a faculty member who will act as the sponsor.

An examination of the accounting cycle; the recording, posting, adjusting, and closing of accounting data for a sole proprietor service and merchandising business, to include internal controls, receivables and payables, inventories, depreciation, and payroll. Emphasis is on the use of accounting data for decision making. Students will be required to master the automation of financial statement and pro forma development using interactive spreadsheets. Three hours lecture/discussion and three hours spreadsheet training/projects. III.Q

Not open to students who have credit for BUSN 131 or BUSN 232. This course provides an introduction to management of organizations through an examination of management theory, and to human resource management principles in today's workplace. In addition to the management functions of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling, students will study issues such as recruitment and hiring, policy design, legal issues, and motivational theory and its application to rewards and compensation. This course cannot be taken on a P/CR/NC grading option.

An examination of the nature and purpose of the arts with special attention to the visual arts, music and literature. Controversies about the roles of the artist and viewer, the status of the art object, the significance of context, and the relationship of the arts to ethics and societal development will be explored. No specialized knowledge of the arts is required. V.6a

Communication concepts and skills for use in business and professional environments. Topics covered include: problem solving, dealing with resistance to change, audience analysis, interviewing, asking questions, responding to public questions, dealing with the news media, and organization of material. III.O