Arts Management

Using a special combination of business skills, arts and entertainment managers play a key role in bringing great performances, paintings, scripts, songs, and more to the public.

Arts management is an interdisciplinary major designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, experience, and confidence to become leaders in the fields of arts or entertainment management and other creative industries. Students will study the issues impacting the contemporary arts and cultural industries, develop business and managerial skills for professional decision-making, and practice creative and critical thinking. Students benefit from broad instruction of business models, managerial roles, and best practices that support and promote a variety of visual, performing, and media arts and artists.

In addition to this core, students will choose a track that will focus on a particular area of the arts offered at Wesleyan College. This major exemplifies the core of Wesleyan College’s mission to mentor students to become leaders in their field. Through learning how to support and market artists and art events, raise funds, manage finances, and develop programming for arts organizations, students will be prepared for a wide range of graduate programs and careers .

Major: Arts Management
Related Majors: Music, Art, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics
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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Majors

School of Media, Arts and Culture

  • Culture, Literature and Media,
    • BA Concentrations available in: Literature and Creative Writing; Cross-Cultural Communication; Media and Society; Women, Gender, and Sexuality
  • Arts Management, BA
    • Concentrations available in: Art, Music, or Theatre
  • Music, BA
    • Concentrations available in: General, Performance, or Pre-Music Therapy
  • Studio Art, BA
    • Advertising & Marketing Communication, BA

School of Applied Sciences and Nursing

  • Applied Mathematical Science, BA
  • Applied Psychology, BA (online program only)
  • Biology, BS
  • Environmental Studies and Sustainability, BA
  • Neuroscience, BA
  • Nursing, BSN
  • Psychology, BA

School of Global and Professional Studies

  • Accounting, BA
  • Business Administration, BA
    • Concentrations available in: Accounting, Digital Marketing, Economics, Healthcare Administration, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management
  • Elementary Education, BA
  • Global Business, BA
  • History, Politics and Global Cultural Studies, BA
    • Concentrations available in: History and Cultural Heritage; Politics, Governance and Policy; Global Systems; Comparative Worldviews: Religions, Philosophy and Society

Self-Designed Interdisciplinary Major

  • Available for students with interests that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries to combine existing classes in unique and personalized ways to meet their career goals.
Minors
  • Accounting
  • Applied Psychology
  • Arts Management
  • Biology
  • Business
  • Chemistry
  • Communication and Media Studies
  • Culture, Media, and Media
  • Digital Marketing
  • Economics
  • Educational Studies
  • English
  • Environmental Science
  • Finance
  • Forensic Science
  • Healthcare Administration
  • History
  • Human Resource Management
  • Mathematics
  • Music
  • Neuroscience
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Pre-Law
  • Psychology
  • Public History
  • Reading
  • Religious Studies
  • Secondary Education
  • Spanish
  • Strategic Management
  • Studio Art
  • Theatre
  • Visual Studies
  • Women, Gender & Sexuality
Pre-Professional Concentrations

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  • Allied Health

  • Athletic Training

  • Dentistry

  • Medicine 

  • Pharmacy 

  • Veterinary Medicine

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Majors

Majors

Wesleyan offers 25 majors and 35 minors, including self-designed interdisciplinary studies, eight pre-professional programs and the bachelor of science in nursing and bachelor of fine arts degrees.

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beyond the classroom

The arts management major incorporates field experience and self-designed projects into its curriculum, providing students the opportunity to work with professionals outside of Wesleyan College and tailor their learning to their post-graduation interests. It enables students to become leaders and managers as they engage with organizations on and off campus. Students will be encouraged to engage in summer work at arts and cultural institutions, attend conferences in their area of study, and explore internship opportunities.

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Calendar of Events

Wesleyan College is privileged to steward many arts and cultural events and share them with the community. Most are free and open to the public. Wesleyan art galleries are open M-F 1-5PM and on Wesleyan Market Saturdays from 10AM-2PM.

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