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Creative Practice Leadership, MS

2021-2022 Edition

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Through a series of four transdisciplinary core courses and four discipline-weighted, student-selected electives in the performing and visual arts, the MS Creative Practice Leadership offers a two-semester, intensive, Masters-level program of training in and exploration of new approaches to leadership in the fields of critical creative practice, cultural entrepreneurship, and innovation in the arts and entertainment industries. Grounded in a broadly interdisciplinary approach, the goal is to enable administrators and practitioners in the creative professions to become transformational leaders and change agents for a rapidly evolving cultural environment.

The MS Creative Practice Leadership engages administration, curation, advocacy and other forms of cultural communication and intermediation from the point of view that creative practice leadership must become more than an outwardly successful business or administrative exercise; rather, such leadership must re-examine past assumptions about, and envision new parameters for how, success is defined. The ethos underlying the design of courses in this program is that leadership in the arts and creative industries brings a responsibility to the progress, vitality and sustainability of the world that those creative enterprises seek to embrace, a responsibility that requires critical thinking and deeply thoughtful exploration, along with the skills necessary for implementation.

Complete all courses and requirements listed below unless otherwise indicated.

Core Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
INAM 6100Critical Foundations of Creative Practice Leadership4
INAM 6200Topics in Communication Strategies4
INAM 6210Projects in Creative Practice Leadership4
INAM 6300Models for Applied Inquiry in Creative Practice4

Electives

Course List
Code Title Hours
Complete 16 semester hours in the following subject areas in consultation with your advisor:16
AACE, ARTG, ARTH, COMM, INAM, JRNL, MUSI, THTR, 5000 level or above

Program Credit/GPA Requirements

32 total semester hours required
Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Sample One Year, No Co-op

Year 1
FallHoursSpringHours
INAM 61004INAM 62104
INAM 62004INAM 63004
Elective4Elective4
Elective4Elective4
 16 16
Total Hours: 32

Sample Two Year, One Co-op

Year 1
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
INAM 61004INAM 62104Elective4Co-op
INAM 62004INAM 63004  
Elective4   
Elective4   
 16 8 4 0
Year 2
FallHours   
Co-op   
Elective14   
 4   
Total Hours: 32
1

 International students cannot take an online elective in their last term as their only class.

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