A&S 430, Advanced Writing and Research in the Humanities, is a common capstone experience for students completing the Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree. It is designed to provide an opportunity for majors to gain research experience, as well as to allow them to explore various content areas and scholarly approaches represented in the humanities so as to enhance their understanding of the value of work across disciplines. In addition, the course facilitates student completion of a portfolio highlighting the common thread(s) of their coursework during their time at UK.

This course will provide students with an opportunity to gain research experience drawing on the methods used in the social sciences. Students will be exposed to the process of research and writing used by social scientists. Student will identify and evaluate previous research, identify a topic of interest for research, conduct a literature review and create a research proposal for an original research project.

Advanced Woven Structures builds on the knowledge acquired in A-S 352, through supervised individual project development in woven structures.

This course is designed to expand the competencies of students in order to work successfully in teams and build true collaborations. Through structured and unstructured team building, students will analyze and evaluate their own experiences in both leading and participating in teams. Special consideration will be placed on the how teams function within arts organizations.

Emotional intelligence (EI) is arguably the most important key to success in one's career and personal life. This course continues the exploration of research and theories of EI, the various dimensions of EI, and EIs applications in the arts. Students will examine their own EI through a variety of self-assessment tools, activities, and exercises. Students in this course will focus on their development of social skills as well as social relationship management and social responsibility.

People make hundreds of decisions each day. Many decisions are simple. Other decisions require thoughtful deliberation. Yet all decisions, whether simple or complex, involve cognitive processes which are reflected in a variety of different fields of study. In Decision Making in Arts Administration, students will explore the theories and concepts surrounding decision making, decision modes, and decision strategies. Students will use these concepts and apply them to real-world arts administration scenarios.

The concept of governance is critical in the nonprofit sector. Governing boards are a vital component for the success of nonprofit organizations. AAD 531 Nonprofit Board Governance is designed to provide an understanding of how a nonprofit is governed through a volunteer board of directors. In this course, students will explore the fundamentals of governance, trusteeship, and leadership in nonprofit organizations. Additionally, students will analyze legal, fiduciary and ethical responsibilities of nonprofit boards in order to critically understand the role of board leadership.

Organization theory examines the inner workings of institutions in an attempt to understand organization functionality. For this course, theories are drawn from numerous disciplines including arts management, business administration, nonprofit management, and public administration. Additionally, theories may be classical, foundational, modern, postmodern, and/or critical. Specifically, this course explores various organizational theories that are relevant to running and studying nonprofit arts organizations.

Arts and culture institutions operate in complex environments with policies that shape the kinds of artistic creations that are created, produced, disseminated, marketed, funded and preserved. What are these policies in the United States? Who are the policy actors? Who implements policy? Who enforces policy? How do you create new policies? This course explores regulatory and provisionary areas of public policy as well as cultural policy specifically.

This course examines an array of contemporary approaches to building the economic, physical, and social dimensions of cities structured around creativity, culture, and the arts. Historical underpinnings, trajectories, and problems of these approaches are explored through lectures, readings, student research, and discussions.