RATIONALE
Project Management is a professional discipline and skill set that involves the planning, organization, and integration of resources in order to meet quality standards, timeline expectations, and budget constraints. Project management skills improve the productivity and effectiveness of arts managers and positively impacts financial performance of any project. In our global competitive environment, it is fundamental to hone and utilize project management skills to succeed as an arts manager.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course introduces students to the project management framework and explores the application of project management tools in arts management. Topics covered include project integration management, scope, time, cost, risk and stakeholder management.
1 Creative Yaad – Arts Management Forum is a student run; faculty supervised Arts Management Company that has been designed to provide Arts Management majors with practical experience in areas such as event production, marketing, and project management. The company selects a
specific number of projects (on and off campus) each school year and meets once per week to organize and execute plans. This is a mandatory requirement of each student in the School of Arts Management and Humanities. Students will be awarded one credit for 3 units of work done across
the first three years of the programme.
This course introduces students to the project management framework and explores the application of project management tools in arts management. Topics covered include project integration management, scope, time, cost, risk and quality management and evaluation.
This course builds on information presented in the second year course, Introduction to Event Planning. It focuses on the application of project management strategies to the creation and execution of arts and cultural events including specific knowledge areas of Administration, Operations Marketing and Risk Management. The course will expose students to best practices and monitoring of returns on investment, sustainable event and media management, as well as staff management. Students will be required to start the thought process in the planning of their event, involving industry professionals and selected students from the schools of music, dance, drama and visual arts. This event will be executed during the Event Management and Media Relations II component of the programme.
Exploring quality as an element of the creative product andits effect or lack thereof on the creative experience is critical to the success of the creative process. As such developing an awareness of quality management and its positive impact on arts development is necessary to any practice in arts
management.
This course examines the way in which the arts are SARTSMAN | 18 | 2017-18 represented in the development of Tourism and seeks to evaluate whether its impact could be enhanced in an effort
to reinvent the Caribbean Tourism Product.
This course identifies, delineates and maps cultural industries and explores the roles and impact these industries have on society within a cultural policy framework.
Research Methods
RATIONALE: This course fulfills the need to equip the participants with the rudimentary tools for conducting simple research projects and other major projects in their respective disciplines.
AIM: To expose students to a variety of research methods which are applicable to research on the arts and culture in the Caribbean.
This course builds on the event management framework introduced in Events Management and Media Strategies I. Topics in this component will include integrated marketing and communication, operations and risk assessment management, applications to their planned and check listed
event. Students will examine the final sets of knowledge areas and have opportunities to engage in the application of these areas through field trips, hands on experience in College and outside events, observation and the planning of their own. Students will collaborate as a team on the type of event that they want to present, design same and manage all aspects of the planning and production under supervision.
This course explores the impact of arts and cultural policy development and implementation, both locally and regionally and sensitizes students to the issues involved in policy development and planning and its impact on implementation.
This course will involve an examination of
issues concerned with community arts management. It will provide an overview of
relevant management, policy, cultural, and community issues while examining
various community based art models and processes that have been used to
tangibly transform communities through art.