Arts Managers perform the work that is required to bring the arts and cultural programs to audiences, organizing programs such festivals and exhibits, performing arts events and film screenings. This course will introduce you to the "business of the arts," providing you with an overview of the careers in arts management, the types of work that arts managers do, and the current issues and trends now affecting arts management professionals.

This 3-credit course is designed as a primer in entrepreneurship for arts students and those in cognate fields. Students will examine the breadth of professional opportunities available in the Creative Economy and explore strategies for pursuing them. Based on these examinations, students will construct a personal mission statement, build an individualized portfolio of materials appropriate for professional development purposes, and begin a journal to formulate, collect, and grow creative venture ideas.

In this course we will explore imitation, repetition, and appropriation in nineteenth-century art. The doctrine of imitation - the desire to imitate and surpass classical art - guided generations of European artists from the Renaissance until the end of the eighteenth century. Our seminar will focus on a radical transformation in definition of artistic originality that was at the heart of ambitious French art in the nineteenth century, one which produced complex blends of academic models of imitation with modernist forms of repetition (such as the notion of a series).

Now that our world is increasingly virtual, what is the significance of material objects? How has the history of craft in Japan come to shape our current understanding of what Yanagi S'etsu rhapsodized as the "beauty of everyday things"? This course examines the history of artisans and designers in Japan in order to analyze the meaning of materiality, craftsmanship and skill, technique and applied knowledge, and our human relationship with things.

Focusing on the British Empire and various styles, genres, and types of art, this course explores the visual archive that was produced across the 400-year history of Transatlantic Slavery to understand how race and colonialism were constructed and reified through access to cultural capital and various forms of artistic production.

This course surveys the art of China's modern age, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century with the treaty port cultures following the second Opium War in 1860, and ending with the 2008 Olympics. Topics include urban print cultures, modern ink painting, Sino-Japanese exchanges, arts institutions, popular and mass culture, socialist state art, experimental art and exhibitions in the Reform era, and art of the diaspora.

Survey of the art and architecture of Islamic peoples from the mid-13th century CE until the 19th century CE. Covers a wide variety of media from Morocco to India.