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  • AAD 617: Public Policy for Arts

    3.00 Credits
    Goucher College

    This course examines governmental policy on the arts at the national, state, and local levels including the history of public arts policy in this country and current politics. Understanding and changing public policy, identifying decision makers and developing a vocabulary for successful advocacy are major components of the course. Field trips to government agencies and arts advocacy groups are included. Required in the second summer residency, and completed in the fall semester.
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  • AAD 619: Cultural Ecosystem: Arts in Community

    3.00 Credits
    Goucher College

    The course will look at how artists, arts organizations, and arts councils function within and support a particular community. The course will be taught from a local arts agency perspective of relevancy and integration into the community, addressing the arts as an agent for social and economic development. Specific topics may include the following: the historical context of community arts in the United States and around the globe; changing demographics and their impact on the arts; integrating multiple cultures into arts policy and programs; understanding government systems from the most local to national and international; understanding demographics and economic development; the relevance and usefulness of the economic impact approach to arts advocacy; understanding the concept of community health and the role of the arts in supporting it; integrating the arts into public programs; understanding cultural democracy; partnerships and cooperation with civic institutions; understanding community planning and cultural planning; public art programs and their role in building community identity; helping arts organizations to understand their role building community identity; how to define and evaluate success for arts organizations; current trends in local arts management. Required for students entering in 2007 and beyond; open as an elective to all other students.
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  • AAD 620: Human Resources Mgnt

    3.00 Credits
    Goucher College

    Principles and best methods for managing both paid and volunteer personnel in an arts organization. Topics will include hierarchical vs. collegial organizational structures and supervisory skills; orientation and training of the board of directors and committees; managing staff meetings; establishing management teams; recruiting and hiring new employees (job descriptions; interviewing skills); job training and performance evaluation; advancement and succession; the use of independent contractors vs. regular employees. The implications of the change in the volunteer demographic profile will be addressed, as well as volunteer recruitment, supervision, retention and recognition, and designing alternative volunteer opportunities to accommodate today’s professionals. Required in the third summer residency and completed in the fall semester.
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  • AAD 625: Grantsmanship from A to Z

    1.00 Credits
    Goucher College

    This course will cover the process of researching, preparing, and managing corporate, foundation, and government grants for nonprofit arts organizations. Topics to be covered will include research, cultivation, understanding guidelines, program development, outcomes-based evaluation, letters of intent, preparation of proposals, preparing budgets, and grants stewardship (reporting). Students will be encouraged to become familiar with their own local funding environment, and will prepare at least one complete grant proposal.
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  • AAD 627: International Arts

    3.00 Credits
    Goucher College

    The course will be composed of multi-pronged interaction among students, lecturers and guest lecturers representing major cultures covering the various continents/regions, including Asia (Far East and Middle East), Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Australia. The primary goal is to introduce students to how cultural policies influence cultural development and programming within that culture. Students will research current and historical factors that influence a country as their domestic cultural policies promulagated. The main themes of the course are (1) arts policies for a civil society, (2) the arts as part of an economic engine, and (3) the arts as part of a political agenda. Students will learn from guest speakers reflecting many of the cultures to be studied, read relevant and "unusual suspect" documents, and participate in class debates on the strengths and challenges of the perspectives presented.
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  • AAD 630: Mang Perform Arts Org

    3.00 Credits
    Goucher College

    Particular challenges relating to theatre, music, and dance institutions, examined through a case study approach. Contractual agreements; cooperative ventures between organizations; scheduling; touring and presenting houses. Outreach and integrating the arts into education. Managing organizations in transition (artistic, administrative and/or facility), and balancing the necessities of artists, staff, boards, and funders will be central considerations.
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  • AAD 631: Mng Visual Arts Organtns

    3.00 Credits
    Goucher College

    This course dissects and examines the myriad challenges facing the director of an art museum, nonprofit art gallery or alternative space. Topics will include ethical issues, board governance, the pros and cons of facility expansion, provenance issues, fundraising strategies and their Catch-22 components, audience development, media communication, managing controversy and change, the organization’s role as educator, collaborative ventures, the critical investment in exhibitions, collecting and deaccessioning, and working with contemporary artists.
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  • AAD 632: Managing Community Arts Organ

    3.00 Credits
    Goucher College

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  • AAD 634: Plan & Mang New Ventures in the Arts

    3.00 Credits
    Goucher College

    You have a new, exciting artistic venture you want to see to fruition. Learn to explore the why, what, and when of the process involved to assess, plan, and launch your new artistic idea. Is it a specific artistic project or the creation of a new organization? You will share this journey of exploration with other students in this course. Together, you will develop questions and investigate and share answers, opinions, and philosophies about the importance to (1) assess the environment; (2) articulate the "why" of your new artistic venture; (3) explore and analyze artistic and management processes; (4) meet legal requirements; (5) target, develop, and impact potential audiences; (6) identify and secure human, financial, and space resources; (7) review various project or organizational frameworks and infrastructures to determine the most effective fit for your idea; (8) seek community partners and build understanding and support; (9) organize and manage the time needed; (10) define success; (11) develop and sustain leadership; and (12) decide the readiness to launch your new artistic venture
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  • AAD 636: Arts in Education

    3.00 Credits
    Goucher College

    This course will study the various arts education methodologies practiced in the classroom, explore models of best practices in different settings in urban and rural schools, discuss the role of the arts in academic learning, and examine public support for arts in education and advocacy for such support. Students will survey their own communities and their professional backgrounds to build a context for their understanding of the coursework, participate in discussion of assigned readings and topical issues in arts education, practice resolution of real-life situations in arts instruction, seeking public support, and developing advocacy strategies to ensure the permanence of arts in the core curriculum of all schools.
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