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Course Details

Arts and Cultural Management M.P.S.

Course Description

Shaping and Sustaining Thriving Cultures in the 21st Century The mission of the Arts and Cultural Management ACM) graduate program is to build on Pratt Institute's international reputation for developing creative leaders. Our program mission is to develop leaders able to use their creativity strategically to foster creative expression, build creative community, and shape a commerce of ideas and images in an increasingly challenged and mediated world. The program is designed to emphasize the importance of cultivating creative capital by bridging the three C’s of culture, community, and commerce. Participants actively examine how to use the creative arts to develop and sustain thriving cultures and to create prosperity. Typically those interested in arts and culture are not educated in the theory or provided with the tools, language, and experience necessary for administrative leadership. The ACM program was designed to provide these in a collaborative and applied learning environment. Participants are expected to explore the changing role of the cultural leader and the cultural institution and to develop competency in new media and methods that are transforming the way we communicate, engage, and transform. Program participants collaborate with faculty and each other to achieve the following outcomes: Apply theory to practice to develop and sustain thriving cultures and create prosperity. Demonstrate the power of collaborative practice to foster creative expression, build creative community and shape a commerce of ideas, artifacts, images, and experiences. Evidence the value of cultural leadership and the importance of cultural capital in shaping the 21st century. Program participants achieve these outcomes by: Engaging in simulations and applied practice projects that test theory against the dynamic and evolving realities of a changing world. Working in teams to discover opportunities to use the arts to tackle "wicked problems" that require collaboration. Integrating and applying learning in strategy formulation and implementation, finance, marketing and law, innovation and decision making, operations planning, cultural programming, human resource management, and negotiation across practice projects. Designing applied research projects that deliver creative and strategic approaches to critical cultural challenges. Developing team charters and professional and personal development plans and engaging in ongoing peer coaching.

Course Duration

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1year

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