Master of Arts Management Curriculum
The program trains you to seek evidence-based solutions to problems facing the arts and cultural sector, including theaters, museums, concert venues, art galleries, symphony orchestras, festivals and all manner of public, nonprofit and private-sector institutions. If you have a passion for the arts and wish to ensure the strength of artistic and cultural institutions, we'll teach you to the quantitative management techniques to weather the complex technological, social, and political changes affecting the industry.
Arts Management Curriculum
For detailed curriculum information, please visit the Master of Arts Management Student Handbook.
- Arts Enterprises: Structures & Strategies (93-703)
- Arts Marketing and Public Relations (93-821)
- Law Fundamentals for Arts Managers (93-831)
- Fundraising and Individual Giving (93-826)
- Fundraising and Institutional Giving (93-827)
- Arts Management Professional Seminar (93-847)
- Museum Operations for Performing Arts (93-807)
- Organizational Design and Implementation (94-700)
- Applied Economic Analysis (90-710)
- Financial Analysis (91-804)
- Statistical Methods
- Strategic Communication for Arts and Entertainment Management (93-877)
- Arts Industry Capstone Project
PLUS
- Required Summer Internship
For class, syllabi, and faculty information, please visit the Heinz College course catalog.
- Arts and Community Development (93-832)
- Public Art (93-809)
- Advanced Topics in Fundraising (93-828)
- Arts in Education
- Arts Facilities Management
- Cultural Policy and Advocacy in the U.S.
- Audience Engagement and Participation
- Theatre Architecture
- Arts Management and Technology
- Telling Stories With Data (94-870)
- Negotiation (94-800)
- Urban and Regional Economic Development (90-743)
- Program Evaluation (90-823)
- Organizational Change (91-809)
- Media Communications (90-801)
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (94-802)
- Measuring Social (94-823)
- Project Management (94-813)
- Creating Results-Oriented Programs (94-824)
- Civic Engagement as a Community Process
- Theatre Management
*Students may also enroll in graduate-level courses from other Heinz College programs as well as other departments across Carnegie Mellon University’s campus, with approval.
For class, syllabi, and faculty information, please visit the Heinz College course catalog.
Students in the MAM program can elect an optional concentration in the following specialty area:
- AI Management
Sample Master of Arts Management Schedule
- At Carnegie Mellon University, courses are counted in units instead of credits.
- Three units are roughly equivalent to one credit at many of our peer institutions.
- A semester-long course is 12 units, while a half-semester class (called a mini) is six units.
The following schedules are intended to be examples of the structure of the semester. Courses may not always be offered in this fashion.
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