Arts and Cultural Management

Co-Directors: Patricia Easton, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Hideki Yamawaki, Professor of Management
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Humanities@cgu.edu
www.cgu.edu/maacm

The School of Arts and Humanities and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management jointly offer the Master of Arts in Arts and Cultural Management.

Academic Program

The Master of Arts in Arts and Cultural Management (M.A.A.C.M.) is designed for students with a strong background in the arts and/or humanities. The purpose of the program is to combine management, policy, and decision-making training with advanced study in the arts/humanities. Arts and cultural managers are required to play multiple roles in arts organizations. They function as community leaders, planners, educators, facilitators, and fund-raisers. They must know how to interpret, influence, and set art and cultural policies. They must know how to advocate and communicate the value and mission of an organization to diverse constituencies, including artists, business people, government officers, and members of local communities and associations.

The program in arts and cultural management strives to prepare students through the optimal balance of advanced study in arts and cultural theory, policy, management, and hands on experience.

The program combines training in the techniques of humanities research and writing, applied research analysis,management, policy, and decision making skills. First-hand experience in the arts and cultural management field is gained through an internship normally completed within the first year. A final thesis or advanced writing project requires students to synthesize their skills and knowledge on some policy or management-related problem in the area of arts and
cultural management.

Admissions Requirements

The admissions committee, composed of Drucker School as well as arts and humanities faculty, reviews applicants for clear indications of leadership ability, and a strong background in the arts/humanities. An applicant must submit a completed application, application fee, transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate work completed, three letters of reference, résumé,personal statement, and GMAT or GRE scores to the Office of Admission and Records at Claremont Graduate University. Non-native speakers of English also must submit TOEFL test scores.

Courses

Core Courses

MANAGEMENT

Financial Accounting (4 units)*

Corporate Financial Management (4 units)*

Organizational Theory and Behavior (4 units)

Marketing Management (4 units)

Leadership Elective (4 units)

HUMANITIES

Theory and Practice of Arts and Cultural Management (4units)

Arts and Cultural Policy (4 units)

3-4 courses in a topic of interest/electives (up to 16 units)

**Research Technologies and Methods – (fulfills research tool requirement)

Master’s Research Paper (4 units)

ELECTIVE COURSES

Morality and Leadership

Creativity and Innovation

New Venture Finance and Conflict Resolution

Negotiation

Leadership in the 21st Century

Revitalization

Drucker on Management

Corporate Governance

Entrepreneurship

Self Management

The Non-Profit Leader

Consumer Behavior

Flow and Motivation

Humanities

American Public Art and Political Controversy

Writing About Performance

Television and American Culture

Globalism and Modernity

Cultural Property and Identity

Critical Theory

Modern Art History

Contemporary Art History

Experimental, Alternative, and Avant-Garde Documentary

Contemporary British Literature and Culture

Thirties America

American Literature and Culture

American Modernism

Contemporary American Drama

Primitivism and Modernism

Topics in American Intellectual History

Topics in American Popular Culture

Oral History

History of Modern Philosophy

Logic and Argumentation

Seminar in Ethics

Interdisciplinary Music Criticism

History of Performance Practices

*Financial Accounting and Corporate Financial Management normally require a prerequisite of MGT 306: Quantitative Methods. Students who have had training in quantitative methods may request a waiver of this prerequisite. Note that MGT 306 or its approved equivalent satisfies the research tool discussed in ** below.

**Only approved courses will satisfy this requirement. Depending on the needs and interests of the student, this may include Statistics, Quantitative Methods, or Digital Humanities.