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THTR 583: Business of the Arts
An examination of different nonprofit, commercial, and government organizational issues, structures, and practices in the performing and visual arts. Areas covered include structures such as theatres, dance companies, galleries, museums, arts councils, presenting organizations, orchestras and other music groups, art unions and associations, among others. Practices such as audience development, fund raising and grantsmanship, lobbying and advocacy, planning, and organizational development, among others are also covered.

MGMT 505: Management Process and Organizational Behavior
Review of classical and modern approaches to the managerial process as it relates to the manager’s function of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. These reviews will be tied to the open-system model and the contingency approach as an overall framework for understanding the management of organizations.

ACCT 501 Financial Accounting
A study of basic accounting concepts and their significance to the financial analyst and manager. Problems relating to income determination, valuation, reporting and analysis are stressed. Alternative conceptual foundations of reporting standards are presented and evaluated.

THTR 585: Grantsmanship and Fundraising
Examine methods of grantsmanship, fundraising and other strategies employed to secure support for institutional operations and programs in the arts and cultural fields. Case studies from arts and cultural organizations are analyzed for the effectiveness of their particular strategies.

THTR 501 Research Methods in Theatre
Foundations in research and research methodologies. A survey of resources and methods (including critical, historical and textual) in theatre to assist students in assessing and designing research. Course must be completed in first two semesters of matriculation.

LSLW 537 Entertainment Law
Theoretical foundations and practical applications of entertainment law, utilizing a model and method approach, which presents theory and procedure in a case problem context. The course acquaints students with various traditional legal theories and compares and contrasts them with law as it has evolved to meet new changes in society. Areas to be covered include representing minors, contract preparation, copyright infringement, publishing, the record industry, film, and television.

THTR 508 Internship
Practical experience in theatre under supervision of staff members of professional, semi-professional, or educational theatre, on- or off-campus.

THTR 599 Independent Study
Individual projects in theatre that result in significant research.

THTR 698 Master’s Thesis
Independent research project done under faculty advisement. Students must follow the MSU Thesis Guidelines, which may be obtained from the Graduate School. Students should take THTR 699 if they don’t complete THTR 698 within the semester. Prerequisite: Departmental approval.

A. Specialization (Select 2)

THTR 509 How to Run a Nonprofit Arts Organization
Students will actively participate in a pragmatic, hands-on, experience-based, mission-driven analysis of the creative and managerial challenges unique to exemplary arts organizations along the entire spectrum -- from a community-based storefront all the way to a multi-million dollar cultural institution -- with the goal of teaching them how to determine the best path to take into this diverse and constantly-expanding field

THTR 580 Theatre Management
The theatre as a business enterprise: production units; box office procedures; standard contractual arrangements; unions and their regulations; subscription management. Manager as a community relations specialist; publicity; the theatre as a community resource.

THTR 582 Production Management
Experiential study of season scheduling; space scheduling; rehearsal scheduling; budgeting and pricing out costs for sets, costumes, lighting and props; management of backstage personnel; union contracts; and safety issues in the theatre and backstage. Course work supplemented by hands-on work on theatre/dance projects and spaces.

ARHM 501 Arts and Museum Management
An introduction to the business and management of art (and objects). Includes management of museums, galleries, corporate collections, auction houses, art institutions, nonprofit organizations, and granting agencies.

SPCM 520 Introduction to Public Relations
In Introduction to Public Relations, students learn about the basic theories/history of the discipline, definitional issues, important scholarly/theoretical debates, and the dual nature of the public relations discipline—this is the rift that exists between theory and application, practitioners and scholars.

SPCM 545 Issue Management
Issue Management deals with issues such as problem solving, crisis communication and the process of shaping public opinion. Areas such as lobbying, political public relations, persuasion, dialogue, apologia, and rhetorical approaches to public influence are dealt with, as means of managing organization-public relations.

SPCM 547 Seminar in Organizational Communication
This course introduces the graduate student to the academic study of organizational communication and organizational culture/climate. Attention is given to the history of the field and to the variety of methodologies and research agendas that have been part of that history. Students will offer presentations on selected topics and prepare a final paper on a topic of relevance to their area of interest. The goal will be to provide a broad foundation for future study and research in the field.

B. Business and Legal Studies (Select 1)

MKTG 501 Fundamentals of Marketing
This business core requirement assumes little or no prior formal education in the discipline of marketing. As such, a solid introduction to the language of the discipline, body of knowledge, tools and techniques must necessarily be covered through a text and readings format supplemented with class lectures which are grounded in heavy case analysis and real-world illustrations. The pivotal distinctiveness of this graduate offering lies in drawing the student into issues that are industry and company specific (preferably drawn from the student’s career related/company)

INBS 501 International Business: Concepts and Issues
Provide a conceptual and analytical framework of the nature, the process and organizational aspects of the international business. Business students will acquaint with the dynamics of global business environment, international competition in the domestic and foreign markets and strategic issues relating to international business. The course will provide basic in international economics, foreign exchange, monetary systems and financial markets, the role of multinationals, international marketing and logistics, taxation and accounting systems, cultural challenge, management styles and practices across the nation. Prerequisite: ECON 501: Economic Analysis

INBS 530 Export Management
To familiarize MBA student of export policies, programs and procedures and develop export/import management skills. The students will become knowledgeable about global sourcing, negotiation, pricing, export/import financing, documentation, international tenders and bidding, logistics and distribution. Cross listed with Marketing, MKTG 530. Prerequisite: INBS 501.

MGMT 510 Human Resource Management
This course examines how managers can utilize modern human resources practices in order to improve company performance and efficiencies. Topics include staffing for quality, outsourcing, use of core and contingent workforce, managing workforce commitment and performance, legal issues, managing careers, and reward systems, A case study approach is used.

MGMT 513 Leadership and Behavior
The purpose of the course is to help students understand leadership behavior. The course reviews current theoretical and empirical literature from the behavioral sciences as it relates to leadership. Topics covered include leadership styles, power and leadership, leader-follower interactions, and the manager as leader.

MGMT 525 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
This course is for students who want to start their own businesses or initiate new ventures in existing corporations. Topics include the importance of entrepreneurship in the United States, identifying business opportunities and formulating business plans.

LSLW 558 Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution
An Intensive study and application of theories and techniques of cross-cultural conflict resolution. Examining of issues of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and sexual preference within the context of dominant Western culture.

LSLW 551 Negotiation Theory and Practice.
An in-depth study of negotiation theories and practical applications, includes an examination and comparison of various negotiation theories and critical skills needed to be an effective negotiator. Extensive role-play and study of ethical and policy issues.

SPCM 510 Special Topics in Communication (Public Relations)
Special topics in Communication is intended as a multipurpose course that can be used both to teach rotating special topics and to pilot test new courses. Special Topics in Communications in intended to be repeatable and to be used by both the Public Relations and the Organizational Communication concentrations to offer advanced and special topic courses. The course may be repeated an unlimited number of times provided the topic of the course has changed.

C. Cultural Criticism and History (Select 1)

THTR 504 Contemporary Theatre
The theory and practice in today’s professional theatre: writing, acting, directing and producing problems and trends of current theatrical fare.

THTR 513 Modern and Contemporary Theatre History
Theatrical history associated with Western culture from 1890 to the present; the contemporary theatrical scene and its direct heritage. Major emphasis on
British and continental developments, with some attention to American theatre.

THTR 517 Theatre Criticism
Historical review of the principles involved in theatre criticism from a literary perspective. While attention is given to selected historical periods, dramatic theorists and theatre critics, the focus of class is on contemporary critical methodologies that augment playscript interpretation and production.

ARHS 590 Modern Philosophies of Art I
Major writers in art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The nature of the reactive experience; art in the life of the individual and of society; the creative process new materials; institutions and sentiments affecting current thinking in the field. Discussions based on readings of philosophers, poets, social scientists and psychologists.

ARHS 591 Modern Philosophies of Art II
The writings of 19th and 20th century artist and their interpreters; such works as the “Futurist’s Manifesto” and Kandinsky’s “the Spiritual in Art”.

ARST 600 Contemporary Art and Aesthetics
This course involves the graduate student in a consideration of major issues in contemporary art and aesthetics.

MUHS 549 Modern Music
Musical styles of the twentieth century: historical sources, major composers and recent trends.

SPCM 581 Media and Mass Culture
Influences and effects of the broadcast media on society; policy decisions and the influences of the broadcast media as conveyors of information and stimulus for change.

ANTH 550 Culture Change
Emphasis on the dynamics of cultural change and continuity. Factors and conditions which stimulate and retard culture change, are reviewed. Particular attention is given to how the cultural, economic, political, and social interests of major international powers produce change and conflict throughout the developing world.

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