2026 Curriculum - Sample Schedule
Our program is tailored to meet your professional objectives. Each student takes a combination of required courses and electives designed to meet your goals. Below is a sample student schedule to highlight one path you can take in our program.
Please note, 9 credits per term is considered full enrollment.
Year 1, Fall
| Course Title | Course Description | Course Type | Credits |
| Data and Theory in Arts Administration | Overview of the history of the arts and arts organizations in America; major theories of art’s production and consumption; and the development of arts administration as a field. | Lecture | 3 |
| Practicum in Arts Administration | This is a required course that offers professional development sessions and in which students read and critique research and reports on the state of the field, and practices within it. This course must be completed prior to the required internship. | Workshop | 3 |
| Program Elective | 3 |
Year 1, Spring
| Course Title | Course Description | Course Type | Credits |
| Internship in Arts Administration | Internship arranged with host institutions on an individual basis, taking into account the student’s needs, interests, and capacities and the host’s abilities to integrate those with its operation in an educationally useful manner. Pre-requisite: Practicum in Arts Administration | 0 | |
| Marketing for the Arts, Entertainment and Culture | Have you ever wondered what a career in the cultural arts might be like? How do you use strategic marketing tools and methodologies to promote and sell the arts product? Marketing the Arts, Culture and Entertainment (ACE) encompasses a focus on both for and not for profit organizations. ACE covers the diverse fields of commercial entertainment and visual arts, not for profit performing and visual arts as well as service and trade-related organizations in the cultural arts realm. | Lecture | 3 |
| Fundraising | An overview of current thinking in the field on finding support and generating funds for cultural initiatives including traditional and non-traditional approaches, funding trend analysis and research, and social entrepreneurship and revenue generation. | Lecture | 3 |
| Integrative Project Seminar | In this mandatory course, first-year ARAD students will develop a formal proposal for the integrative project for approval, secure an appropriate IP Sponsor, and complete an oral defense of their IP proposal. | Seminar | 3 |
Year 2, Fall
| Course Title | Course Description | Course Type | Credits |
| Law and the Arts | Principal artistic applications of U.S. law in areas drawn from copyright law, unfair competition and trademark law, misappropriation, First Amendment questions, miscellaneous torts including rights of privacy and publicity, defamation, interference with contract, and other problems relating to authenticity of art works. | Lecture | 3 |
| Financial Accounting | Columbia Business School. Designed to develop an understanding of accounting principles for users of accounting information. The course looks at how users of financial information interpret accounting reports when making business decisions. The emphasis is on profitability concepts and performance evaluation. Coverage is not restricted to the existing U.S. model but includes a broad discussion of measurement issues and alternative country practices. | Lecture | 3 |
| Program Elective | 3 | ||
| Breadth Elective | 3 |
Year 2, Spring
| Course Title | Course Description | Course Type | Credits |
| Breadth Elective | 3 | ||
| Elective | 3 | ||
| Elective | 3 |