Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify different organizational structures, governance models, strategic frameworks, funding models, and legal frameworks, with specific focus on the non-profit and Canadian live performing arts industry.
2. Outline the major milestones of a theatre production timeline, recognizing the matrix and relations of interdependent tasks, roles, and departments.
3. Discuss the best practices in arts industry, understanding that these methods are contextual, based on colonial and capitalist ways of knowing, and subject to change.
4. Embrace the complexity of managing a production and strive to balance the multiple operations of arts administrations without sacrificing the unpredictability of the collaborative and creative process.
5. Explore how administrative choices impact Canadian performance industry, production, and contemporary culture.
6. Identify what role arts administration plays in your current learning and future career development in diversifying your applicable and transferable skills within the industry.
7. Collaborate with your peers to create a strategic co- created communication plan for an arts organization.
8. Develop the critical thinking skills needed to think laterally, encourage creative problem solving, and both embrace and criticize the adage, "the show much go on".
9. Develop industry confidence, with a particular focus on advocating for yourself, your education, and your career.
10. Create the administrative deliverables and assets used in the industry, including: production/grant budgets, marketing materials, grant application and reports, contracts, and workback plans.
11. Apply knowledge learned across the semester to the administrative deliverables of a 3-city Canadian tour.