Syllabus & Assignments
Course Description
This is a pre-professional seminar for majors and non-majors considering careers in the Arts and related disciplines. Specifically, students will be offered opportunities to hone important career skills vital to the arts (and where relevant arts administration) through masterclasses and workshops. We will also examine how artists and arts organizations are responding to challenges posed by larger societal issues such as diversity, immigration and climate change.
Students in the seminar will work either individually or in teams on a single semester-long research project such as a concert, lecture, or a film or art installation. Each student/team will shape all elements of their project- from its thematic conception, writing well-researched program notes, publicity, rehearsals, to its final virtual presentation. We will utilize a wide range of learning strategies to understand how community engagement and outreach are playing an increasingly important role in careers related to the arts.
Last updated 11/12/2020Syllabus
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Final Project Guidelines
Program Notes - Examples:
Global Voices: Worcester Art Museum, February 2019
The Metropolitan Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro, January 2018
Tanglewood, Summer 2019
Lincoln Center: George Benjamin’s Written on Skin Premiere, August 2015
Regarding Readership Access to the New York Times and the Washington Post:
To access some readings in this class, students will require subscriptions to some online publications. Through Holy Cross, students and faculty are able to sign up for free subscriptions to the New York Times as well as the Washington Post.
Holy Cross students and faculty can follow this link to get their free subscription to both of these publications: https://www.holycross.edu/campus-life/clubs-organizations/sga/campus-life/clubs-organizations/sga/sga-services/readership-access
The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, both publications which provide valuable insight into a wide variety of subjects including the art world, are also highly recommended.