This class provides training in skills required of practitioners of arts management, and investigates fundamental topics crucial to the practice of arts administration, including strategies for creating a favorable environment for arts development, processes and procedures for establishing priorities concerning the varieties of art to be promoted, and the practice of curatorship as a creative activity. By the end of the semester, students should be able to analyze and critique arts policy, local and international arts cultures, and they should develop skills in discerning trends in artistic creation.