Arts and Cultural Management, MPS

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Arts and Cultural Management, MPS

Lead cultural enterprise focused on the arts and entertainment. Leverage new media and methods to transform the way art and cultural leaders and institutions design and manage experiences and engagement.

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Type: Graduate, MPS
Start Term: Fall Only
Credits: 42
Duration: 5 Semesters
Courses: Plan of Study
School and Department: School of Art,
Creative Enterprise Leadership

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Cultivate Creative Leadership: Strategy and Innovation for Culture

Pioneer new media projects, manage entertainment enterprises, and create unforgettable experiences. This Master of Professional Studies (MPS) program will prepare you for leadership and management roles in arts, entertainment, communication, and culture. Leverage your creativity as you cultivate the skillset, toolset, and mindset of a leader.

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A Business Degree for Arts and Cultural Leadership

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Designed to help you leverage the power of culture to create change, our program is the next step in developing your career.

Use multidisciplinary approaches to manage creative enterprise in the arts, entertainment, communication, and culture. Your fellow students come from backgrounds including business, communication, culinary arts, hospitality, events management, advertising, entertainment, animation, theater, music, literary, visual and performing arts, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and design. What you have in common is the desire to start, lead, and manage organizations that will take on critical challenges like climate disruption and inequity.

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Our Faculty: Leaders in Cultural Enterprise

Our faculty are dedicated to developing your potential. They are committed to leading the transition to sustainable practice in their work and their scholarship.

Xue Bai

Assistant Chairperson; Visiting Associate Professor

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Creative Enterprise Leadership
Mary McBride

Chairperson

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Creative Enterprise Leadership
Richard Green

Professor

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Creative Enterprise Leadership
Denise Tahara

Adjunct Professor

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Creative Enterprise Leadership
Christopher Shrum

Professor

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Creative Enterprise Leadership

Lead Cultural Organizations: Your Career Path

Take the next step in a career that aligns your creativity with your ability to manage strategically and sustainably. Leverage Pratt’s extensive network of faculty, industry leaders, and alumni willing to help and mentor you as you build a career across emerging creative economies, including arts, entertainment, and media.

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Pratt Makes an Investment in You: Scholarships and Support

We offer generous scholarships and support for those who want to leverage the power of culture and creativity to lead.

All applicants are considered for merit scholarships during review of applications; a separate scholarship application is not required. For students in good academic standing (i.e., if the student maintains a minimum 3.0 GPA), merit scholarships are automatically renewed for each semester.

Other Financial Support

Support for research-based scholarly and/or creative projects that enhance students’ professional development—individually or through small student teams—are available through the Graduate Student Engagement Fund (GSEF).

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From the Catalog

THE PROGRAM’S STRUCTURE

The ACM program is one of the Creative Enterprise Leadership international graduate programs. It is designed for those who intend to design and manage cultural experience and engagement. It is a two-year, cohort-based program. Participants are required to take 42 credits to complete the program and receive a master of professional studies (MPS) in Arts and Cultural Management. The program has five required semesters—fall, spring, summer, fall, spring. Each semester is divided into two terms and participants enroll in two courses per term, with the exception of semesters three and five. Courses are taken in order as listed in the program curriculum. Two five-day intensives—at the beginning and in the middle of the program—provide the opportunity for several brief, intensive courses, including behavioral simulation and negotiating modules. All course work is done in teams.

Coursework is focused on real world strategic challenges for all enterprise activity including the inequity and climate challenges identified in the Global Goals. Particular focus is on the role of cultural leaders on shaping enterprise strategies which connect the aims of culture, community and commerce and create economic value by advancing the well being of human communities and biosystems.

Class attendance in every session is critical, since each alternating weekend of classes is one-tenth of the entire course. Students are required to complete the 42-credits of the program in sequence to graduate.

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We are beyond traditional “bottom line” business approaches. Program participants will be able to leverage strategic business management science and leadership skills to unlock economic value as it creates sustainable and equitable value for biosystems and communities.
Program participants will be able to leverage the power of culture to shape inclusive and equitable futures that are sustainable and create economic value for their organizations.
Program participants will be able to use inclusive and equitable processes to develop and sustain diverse high-performance teams that advance collaboration,, influence and achieve workplace goals.
Program participants will be able to use reflection processes to develop themselves, their teams, organizations, and practice communities.

Cultivate Creative Leadership: Strategy and Innovation for Culture

A Business Degree for Arts and Cultural Leadership

Our Faculty: Leaders in Cultural Enterprise

Lead Cultural Organizations: Your Career Path

Pratt Makes an Investment in You: Scholarships and Support

Other Financial Support

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From the Catalog

Overview

Learning Outcomes

Plan of Study

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Creative Enterprise Leadership