Accessing the Arts at BU

• Through extending the concept of the Music Minor, increase the access for undergraduates of all colleges to applied courses in the fine arts, specifically through the creation of a Fine Arts Minor, comprising both theoretical and creative/performance/design courses from all three schools in the College of Fine Arts. Such training would be critical to students wishing to enter arts-related or creative leadership fields from other colleges (Law, Management, Communication), as well as complement many majors in the humanities.
• Create an introductory Fine Arts course (or series of them, ideally as 2-credit or P/F courses) open to all students, exploring the creative and cultural dimensions of the arts. Such a course would be preferably team-taught, and would expose students to new faculty creations, compositions, productions, and performances.
• Create a workshop course in CFA open to all students in which participants build interdisciplinary projects related to the Creative Economy, drawing on the relationships among, for example, creative industries, tourism, education and knowledge creation, and information technology. Participants seeking a position within the arts economy would learn how to implement knowledge gained from the course and apply it in concrete terms both on campus and in the cultural life of Boston.

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