Arts Policy, Equity and Activism
| Course Code | ARTM-726 |
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| Course Availability | Open |
| Description | This course provides an in-depth look at how policy shapes arts and cultural organizations and how equity and activism shapes policy. Policy can take many forms, both implicit and explicit, including regulations, subsidies, and incentives. Policy can arise from many sources, but all policies reflect a common purpose: to set the rules for how we get from here to there. Policy sets direction, creates parameters for operation, identifies goals, protects cultural legacy, provides incentives or disincentives, and reflects power structure. Students will be armed with a clear roadmap for negotiating the policy-based landscape of the arts sector both internationally and locally, with particular emphasis on Canadian public arts policies at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels. An interweaving of Indigenous policies and protocols will be explored as part of cultural policy. |