School of Arts Management and Humanities

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.

As a complement to Creative Non-Fiction: Reflective and Descriptive Writing, the course, Expositions and Arguments in the Arts, focuses on two specialised modes of writing—expository and argumentative—in order to introduce students to the elements and structure of writing at the tertiary level. The mechanics of these two different types of writing are explored as the students participate in a range of listening, reading, writing and speaking activities to foster the development of their communicative competence and attainment of academic literacies.

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 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 examines the Arts under the banner of the cultural and creative industries, as a commodity that can be sold. It will explore policies, the supportive framework for entrepreneurs, as well as the financial provisions available to entrepreneurs and their creative start-ups. It aims to
explore the possibility of enterprising arts practitioners and entrepreneurs developing new arts products and stimulating new arts consumers.

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 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.

As a complement to Creative Non-Fiction: Reflective and Descriptive Writing, the course, Expositions and Arguments in the Arts, focuses on two specialised modes of writing—expository and argumentative—in order to introduce students to the elements and structure of writing at the tertiary level. The mechanics of these two different types of writing are explored as the students participate in a range of listening, reading, writing and speaking activities to foster the development of their communicative competence and attainment of academic literacies.

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.

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

This course presents an overview of some of the theories and techniques that are used in the practice of art criticism within the contemporary period. Emphasis is placed on assisting students with articulating their own ideas about works of art being produced by themselves and their contemporaries. The course is therefore discussion driven and context focused. An important aspect of the conversations to be engaged in the course is the role of art criticism within the development of the visual arts industry and the students’ individual and collective artistic identities. This will be contextualised within discussions of the key stylistic trends in Jamaican art, the relationships between the visual arts and other artistic expressions in the global context and the extent to which art represents collective subjectivities.

This course introduces student to the rudiments of writing a research from data gathering,Preliminary Analysis and Finalization of research. Individual tutorials and occasional seminars on specific methodological problems assist students with the research, writing and presentation of the final research paper.

This Moodle Page has been created to attend to faculty needs re training for online delivery, as we continue to prepare for the coming semester.

The intent is to use the actual platform to improve our skills and learn more. The training is expected to run July 22 2020 to August 07 2020. It is anticipated that by that time we would have prepared our Moodle courses and can take a break to rejuvenate and return fresh for the new semester. 

We will open the course shells for the semester and we are expected to work here as well as prepare the actual course shells, we will be participants in each other's shells and can give meaningful and timely feedback.

The objectives are to:

- learn the various activities and explore those which can enhance the learning environment, to ensure exciting and dynamic engagements.

- match assignments, tasks and activities to the learning outcomes in the course outline

- match to match teaching/learning strategies and mode of delivery to the course objectives

- to review and revise the curriculum as we explore the courses

By the end of the course we should

- have made relevant and necessary curriculum revisions as part of the curriculum review process

- have completed the semester plans for all our courses

- completed the set-up of the Moodle classes, which we will give a final go-through week of August 31 before we roll out for start of teaching on Sept 7th 2020.

By the end of the training