Teaching

Courses Taught

Administrative Ethics and Leadership

This course introduces theories of ethics and leadership, uses the case study approach to study ethics and leadership in public and nonprofit settings, and prepares students to enhance or improve the ethical climate through individual and institutional initiatives.

Nonprofit Strategic Planning

This course focuses on the purpose, methods, and outcomes of strategic planning.  We will examine the process, benefits (enhancing organizational performance and governance), and limitations.  You will apply principles and concepts to case studies and exercises. 

Research Methods

Evaluation is an essential element of policy process and public administration.  It builds transparency and accountability and can enhance public trust.  This course investigates the issues and techniques in data collection, analysis, and management for evaluating programs. 

Defense Against the Dark Arts: An Introduction to the Policy Process

Young adult literature, from Rowling’s Harry Potter series to Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy and beyond, provides numerous portrayals of public policy – from the context, actors and policies to their implementations and failures.   These fictitious works illuminate the dark and light aspects of governance, bureaucracy, policy, advocacy, and leadership.  In the Harry Potter series, students enrolled at Hogwarts were required to take a course called “Defense Against the Dark Arts” to learn how to defend themselves.  Similarly, an understanding of the policy process and skills in advocacy prepare students to be active in civic discourse. This course integrates an introduction to the public policy process with literary examples. Students individually apply what they have learned to a public policy problem of their choice and develop an advocacy plan in support of the solution they believe to be optimal.  

Introduction to Public Administration

This course examines the fundamental theories, structures, and processes of governance in the United States. Explores the constitutional foundations and functions of legislative, administrative, and legal institutions. Covers topics such as federalism, public-private relations, and comparative public administration.

Nonprofit Marketing

Introduction to Arts Management

Provides a foundation in the management of arts organizations, creative enterprises, and other endeavors. Students explore key issues in the management of arts organizations and events at local, regional, national, and international levels.

Cultural Policy

An overview of policy analysis and practice of the cultural sector in its different areas (heritage, visual, performing arts, etc.) and perspectives. Analyzes historical and theoretical backgrounds of cultural policy; cultural policies in practice (stylized facts and geographical and political divergence at the local, national, and international level); evaluation of cultural policies and their socioeconomic impact; culture, diversity, and development; cultural access and arts education.

Cultural Economics and the International Art Market

Students gain a thorough understanding of the mechanisms of cultural economics and their influence on the production, financing, and consumption of arts and culture. Includes the application of economic analysis and tools to the different aspects, activities, and mechanisms of the cultural sector. Students also compare, analyze, and evaluate factors that form and influence international cultural heritage, cultural tourism, cultural districts, and the arts labor market, and creative careers.

International Comparative Cultural Policy

Overview of policy models, analysis, and practices of the cultural sector in tis different areas and countries. Students analyze historical and theoretical backgrounds of cultural policy; cultural policies in practice (stylized facts and geographical and political divergences at local, national, and international levels); cultural policies and their socio-economic impact; culture, diversity, and development; cultural access and arts education; and stimulation of the supply of art.

Directed Studies in Arts Administration