This course is intended for arts managers, arts funders and policy makers, artists, researchers, teachers, sympathizers, and thinkers. It is designed to provide a deeper understanding of some of the most pressing issues affecting the arts in the United States and around the world. It also seeks to examine the implications for the cultural sector of the rapidly changing political, economic and social context in which policies affecting cultural provision are formed and executed

Latest episodes of the podcast Current Issues in International Cultural Policy

• The objective of cultural policy
• Causal models underpinning cultural policy
• The arts and the creative industries
• Globalization, democratization, recession
• Leisure time and technology
• Philanthropy, cultural markets, the 501(c)(3) form of organization and its alternatives
• The building boom and its implications for the ecology of culture
• Cultural Diplomacy
• A vibrant cultural ecology and its place in contemporary life
• Special Lecture