This course introduces the concepts, tools, and strategies used to explore and obtain arts administration-based internships and jobs. Students will build resumes, write cover letters, develop an online professional profile, and practice interviewing and job fair skills. Additionally, students will examine workplace skills including professionalism, networking, and managing workplace challenges.
Financial management is a core function within the management of cultural and arts organizations. It is the foundation upon which the resources (human, physical, and financial) of any organization are maintained and monitored. In the nonprofit sector, the relationship of "mission to money" is an important conceptual framework, and must be understood by arts managers. Financial analysis is an essential requisite for sound strategic planning and governance, and managers of nonprofit arts organizations are the source of financial information.
Arts programming and events are at the core of all arts and cultural organizations. AAD 390: Programming and Event Planning will prepare students for planning and implementing arts programs and events by considering organizational mission and vision; planning processes and logistics; collaboration and individual responsibilities; marketing and fundraising strategies, budget management; and evaluation. Students will be introduced to relevant programming theory and research methodologies for planning and evaluating arts programs.
Arts administrators work within arts and cultural, business, and legal environments. Students in this course will discuss legal issues that affect the arts, arts administrators, and arts and cultural organizations. Topics include rights, compliance, and contracts in and around contemporary arts organizations and arts communities. Students will analyze legal dilemmas for arts administrators and evaluate legal practices impacting arts administrators today.
Supervised individual work in Arts Administration. Restricted to majors. A learning contract with project clearly defined must be approved by supervising faculty member, program director, and site supervisor (if required). May be taken up to 6 credits.
This course surveys a variety of current public policies that influence the agricultural and rural economies. Students are exposed to the conflicting views of those concerned with food and agricultural policy issues in an international economy. Economic principles are used to evaluate alternatives in terms of the general welfare of society.
Analytical consideration of the role of agriculture in economic development in relation to overall development strategy at various stages of growth. Theoretical and policy issues of particular relevance to the agricultural development in underdeveloped agrarian economies with various resource, social, political and economic systems.
The course provides an overview of major safety and health hazards in agricultural production (farms) and of the basic approaches to prevention of agricultural injuries and illnesses.
Introduction to the science and technology associated with the brewing of beer. Topics will include the history of beer, varieties of beer, and production of beer. Within the discussions about the production of beer, the effect of raw materials, processing, microbiology, and storage on the taste and appearance of the beer will be studied. The class will also cover beer appreciation and sensory perception, which will complement the discussions of science and technology in the production of beer.
This course is an overview of Islamic spirituality, which refers to the spiritual aspects within basic Islamic texts and general Islamic practices, and Islamic mysticism, which refers to the concepts and practices of Sufism. Throughout the entire course, poems from Rumi, the greatest of the Sufi poets, will be read and discussed. The purpose of the course is to expose students to the ideas and practices of Islamic spirituality and mysticism, the history of Sufism and in a lesser extent the debate between Sufism and normative Islam.
