Cultural Sustainability Curriculum
To earn the Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability, students will complete a minimum of 42 credits of required, elective and professional management courses. Students complete a minimum of 19.5 additional course credits drawn from program electives and the Management Curriculum (PMGT). At least 9 credits must come from Professional Management Core. With permission of the academic director, electives from the M.A. in Digital Arts may be applied.
| Core Curriculum | |
| Students complete 22.5 required course credits | Credits |
| Cultural Sustainability |
3 |
| Introduction to Cultural Documentation |
3 |
| Introduction to Cultural Documentation-Field Lab |
1.5 |
| Cultural Partnership |
3 |
| Cultural Policy |
3 |
| Ethnographic Methodologies |
3 |
| Capstone |
6 |
| Electives Courses | |
| Environment, Culture and Community |
3 |
| Advanced Cultural Documentation and Archival Management |
3 |
| Arts of Social Change |
3 |
| Community and Economic Development |
3 |
| Exhibits, Real and Virtual |
3 |
| Festivals, Events, and Performances |
3 |
| Interpretive Planning and Project Management |
3 |
| Organizing Communities: Advocacy, Activism, and Social Justice |
3 |
| Oral History |
1.5 |
| Food and Foodways |
3 |
| Management & Professional Skills Core Curriculum |
|
| Professional Communications I: Writing for Different Audiences and Outlets |
1.5 |
| Professional Communications II: Strategies for Reaching the Media and Other Key Constituencies |
1.5 |
| Financial Skills |
3 |
| Leadership/Self Development |
1.5 |
| Managing an Organization |
3 |
|
Grant Writing and Fundraising |
1.5 |
|
Nonprofit Leadership and Management |
3 |
| Designing and Delivering a Learning Experience |
1.5 |
| Public Administration |
1.5 |
| Social Entrepreneurship: Mobilizing Private and Public Resources |
1.5 |
| Social Networks and New Media |
1.5 |
| Models of Social Entrepreneurship |
3 |


