School of Arts Management and Humanities

This course seeks to further develop students’ competencies in writing freely and efficiently on any topic while being guided by sound principles of efficient expository writing skills as well as applying the appropriate linguistic resources of vocabulary, mechanics , grammatical and syntactic skills. As critical readers, they will thoughtfully assess the effectiveness of a text by evaluating the author’s strategies and intention. Students will, in time, become efficient and independent readers and authors in their own rights.

This course seeks to introduce students to theories of “Caribbeanness” through the framework of Caribbean Cultural Studies. By engaging this multidisciplinary approach the course highlights major historical, cultural and aesthetical occurrences in the Caribbean. Students are expected to analyse race, class and gender as frames of reference for understanding cultural practices and subsequent power relations. As such, the course also offers students a platform from which to interpret cultural expressions in its broadest political sense.

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.

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 seeks to introduce students to theories of “Caribbeanness” through the framework of Caribbean Cultural Studies. By engaging this multidisciplinary approach the course highlights major historical, cultural and aesthetical occurrences in the Caribbean. Students are expected to analyse race, class and gender as frames of reference for understanding cultural practices and subsequent power relations. As such, the course also offers students a platform from which to interpret cultural expressions in its broadest political sense.

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 examines the way in which the arts are 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. To examine the contribution of arts and culture to tourism in the Caribbean

and address issues of quality in terms of the way this is

This course is designed to familiarize students with the theories and best practices for planning, organizing and coordinating an event; including strategic planning,task identification and coordination, document design,marketing, sponsorship, and post-event evaluation.Topics covered will challenge students to apply theory in creating and presenting a mock event proposal.

This course introduces students to issues involving Intellectual Property (IP) including copyright, patents,and trademarks and examines how these issues relate to the business practices of artistic expression. In addition,the course provides an overview of the legal, regulatory and ethical environment in which business decisions must be made with particular attention to Jamaica’s role in the promotion of intellectual property rights.

This course is a continuation of Introduction to Arts Management I and further seeks to identify what is arts management and its relevance for the development of arts in relation to leisure pursuits. The course will examine the process, best practices and standards associated with Production Management. This course focuses on topics and issues in Leadership, the Functions of Management and Theatre Arts Production. Students will gain hands- on experience through the creation of a Theatre Arts production and gain valuable insight about conflict, task and team management.

This course makes use of independent research, group and independent presentations.

The Classroom Assessment course provides the opportunity for student-teachers to understand both the assessment emphasis of the constructivist and that of the behaviourist which is normally associated with accountability in education. The examination of various assessment concepts that are relevant to classroom assessment forms an important part of the course. So too are the critical technical requirements of assessment instruments and procedures. The course provides opportunities to explore various instruments and procedures that are frequently used and associated with constructivist assessment on the one hand and accountability assessment on the other. It places as much importance on the acquisition of skills in developing and using assessment instruments and procedures as it does on a good grasp of conceptual and theoretical issues. Students are provided with the opportunity through their coursework to apply the skills that they learn to authentic situations.

This course will address a range of topics in Psychology and Education, which will enhance students’ understanding, and application in illustrating what motivates how human beings think, feel and act. Students will also be introduced to developmental, abnormal, social and other areas of the science and art of Psychology, while also being exposed to the tenets of proper application and expectations of professional impartation and conduct. Students will also be exposed to cur- rent trends in and perspectives of Psychology and Education.

The course aims at moving students beyond the writing of five paragraphs expository essays to writing freely and efficiently on any topic while being guided by sound principles of efficient expository writing skills as well as applying the appropriate linguistic resources of vocabulary, mechanics and grammatical and syntactic skills.  Students will continue to identify author’s themes and methods, write formally in response to diverse cues, critically evaluate literary and non literary forms, plan and write with a purpose that builds an argument towards an overall point or goal.  As critical readers, they will thoughtfully assess the effectiveness of a text by evaluating the author’s strategies and intention.  Students will, in time, become efficient and independent readers and authors in their own rights.

This course offers students explanations, frameworks and guidelines for research practices which are grounded in active, intimate, hands-on participation and personal connection, as well as an understanding of one’s practice as both method of research and object of research. The course advocates a bricolage approach, using a mix of serviceable methods, with the main research methods drawn from qualitative research paradigms and practice-based and practice-led approaches, with a focus on experiential and ethnographic methodologies.

This course is designed for persons with little or no knowledge of Spanish, who wish to be able to communicate in the language about everyday matters at a basic level.

This course aims to familiarize students in the field of Gender Studies and across a range of disciplines. Students will encounter a number of different ways in which sex, gender and sexuality have been, and can be understood within the different cultures, especially the Caribbean culture. Masculinities and femininities and the ways in which these interact with other markers of difference such as ‘race’, ‘class’, ‘ethnicity’ and ‘nationality’ will be central themes in this course. Culture, in this context, refers to the inherited ideas, beliefs, values and knowledge about gender that constitutes and contributes to the shared bases of social action and activities of Caribbean peoples.

Reflective Practicum requires student teachers to participate in a variety of activities in a school in addition to observing contextual elements and forces at work in this context. It requires the participants to work as a learning community while integrating professional, specialized, pedagogical and collaborative research knowledge and skills to examine/address issues related to (a) Curriculum (b) The Process of Learning in the school assigned or chosen. During the practicum, the participants will assume full responsibility for the outcome of the process although there will be formal supervision. As part of taking responsibility, they should seek the advice of their department on matters of concern to them