Course Syllabus
Contact Information
Course Details
For a list of course activities, scroll to the bottom of this page.
Course Prerequisites
- AMGT 5013 – Overview of Arts Management & Entrepreneurship
- Approval from OU faculty mentor
Course Materials
Dependent on the student - each student will collect their own materials throughout the course by way of the Self-Directed Study assignments.
Grades
Breakdown
| Activity | Description | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Five Year Plans | You will submit several versions of a five year plan (Plan A, Plan B, revised plan). | 20 |
| Self-Directed Study | Every other week, you will turn in a collection of 5 new resources directly connected to your project and goals, along with summaries and reflections on each. | 20 |
| Project Management Reports | Every other week, you will provide a screenshot(s) of your progress within your project management platform and a reflection on your current progress. You will receive feedback over the Live Session or through Canvas. | 20 |
| Individual Project | This will consist of a plan (start of the semester), a draft/prototype (midterm), and final deliverables (end of the course). | 40 |
| Total | 100 |
Scale
| Percentage | Letter Grade |
|---|---|
| 90–100% | A |
| 80–89% | B |
| 70–79% | C |
| 60–69% | D |
| Below 60% | F |
Course Components
Module Overviews
Each module will have an overview page that will introduce what you will do during the module and why, outline the specific skills/competencies you are expected to gain, and help you to manage your expectations and time.
Resources
Throughout the course, you may need collective instructor-provided resources to help you succeed in the first module, midterm module, and final module. This might consist of information on how to write goals, information on project management tools, etc.
Five Year Plans
These assignments give you the opportunity to create goals that are specific to what you want to accomplish during your career, which will guide your project choice for your independent study.
Self-Directed Study
These assignments will require you to collect and synthesize resources that will help you to achieve your goals in your independent study. This is necessary, as each student’s topic of study will be unique.
Project Management Reports
You will upload screenshot(s) of your project management platform and reflections on your current progress, which will keep you accountable for the commitments you have made for progress throughout the semester and help your faculty mentor to assess your progress. You may receive feedback by attending the Live Sessions or through Canvas.
Individual Project
This will be the final project that all of the other assignments in the course revolve around. This project will be unique to you and could consist of market research, a research article, a conference presentation, designing a complete portfolio, a recording project, a publishing project, developing an app, and so forth. The final project and/or documentation of the project (for example, photos, promotional materials, etc. if it is an event) will be uploaded at the end of the semester. You will submit a project plan at the start of the semester and a draft/prototype at midterm.
Course Policies
Communication
Please contact me directly by email at stan.renard@ou.edu . I will get back to you within 24 hours Monday thru Friday. I do check email over weekends but will most likely respond first thing on Monday morning to your inquiry. Please feel free to address me as Dr. Renard or by my first name. I highly encourage you to reach out to me for feedback, with any questions you may have, as I am here to help advise and mentor you to the best of my ability. I look forward to our exchanges.
Feedback
There will be live online check-ins every other week. This will be a one-hour window of time where you can come in and out to seek feedback from me. Those are not mandatory. You will upload your assignments on Canvas and I will provide feeback to you within the Canvas framework for the corresponding assignments. I will strive to provide you that detailed feedback within a one-week turnaround on your assignments.
Late Policy
I will accept late assignments. However, for each day the assignment is turned in late you will lose 1% of the overall grade for that assignment.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the most common form of academic misconduct at OU. There is basically no college-level assignment that can be satisfactorily completed by copying. OU's basic assumption about writing is that all written assignments show the student's own understanding in the student's own words. That means all writing assignments, in class or out, are assumed to be composed entirely of words generated (not simply found) by the student, except where words written by someone else are specifically marked as such with proper citation. Including other people's words in your paper is helpful when you do it honestly and correctly. When you don't, it's plagiarism.
For more information about plagiarism, watch this video and then take this short course offered by University Libraries.
The Arts Management program supports the use of AI language-generation tools, such as large language models (LLMs), in a way that maintains fairness, enhances student digital skill development, is used in an ethical manner, and respects the views of key stakeholders. These stakeholders include students focused on learning and career development and their peers, as well as professors responsible for teaching essential skills. The University holds the responsibility of ensuring students’ competency through diplomas, while also preparing them for future employers who value their abilities and character. The program aims to provide access to valuable resources, including generative AI tools.
With that in mind, the Arts Management AI policy introduces a few restrictions while otherwise embracing the use of LLMs:
1. Students must give credit to LLMs whenever they are used, even if only to generate ideas rather than usable text. To cite, please refer to https://style.mla.org/citing-generative-ai/
2. When writing papers or take-home assignments using LLMs, students must include in an appendix their entire exchange(s) with the LLM, highlighting the most relevant sections. They must write a narrative at the beginning of the appendix explaining precisely how they used the LLM (to generate ideas, turns of phrase, elements of text, long stretches of text, etc.). This narrative should also explain why they used the LLM (to save time, to surmount writer’s block, to stimulate our thinking, to handle mounting stress, to clarify prose, to experiment for fun, etc.)
3. Students must not use LLMs to help with examination , tests, or assignments, unless they are explicitly organized around an LLM (e.g. an in-class assignment might challenge students to elicit from a LLM the most profound statement on the future of AI).
4. If students choose to use an LLM, students ought to use it wisely and intelligently, aiming to deepen their grasp of the subject matter and to support their learning.
University Academic Policies and Student Support
Access the University Academic Policies Document.
Course Summary:
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