Creative Practice Leadership, MS

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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 6100	Critical Foundations of Creative Practice Leadership	4
INAM 6200	Topics in Communication Strategies	4
INAM 6210	Projects in Creative Practice Leadership	4
INAM 6300	Models for Applied Inquiry in Creative Practice	4

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
Fall	Hours	Spring	Hours
INAM 6100	4	INAM 6210	4
INAM 6200	4	INAM 6300	4
Elective	4	Elective	4
Elective	4	Elective	4
	16		16
Total Hours: 32

Sample Two Year, One Co-op

Year 1
Fall	Hours	Spring	Hours	Summer 1	Hours	Summer 2	Hours
INAM 6100	4	INAM 6210	4	Elective	4	Co-op
INAM 6200	4	INAM 6300	4
Elective	4
Elective	4
	16		8		4		0
Year 2
Fall	Hours
Co-op
Elective1	4
	4
Total Hours: 32

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