该课程为期两个学期，至少18个单元，适用于希望进一步发展成为成功的艺术领导者所需的技能的艺术家，艺术管理人员和文化工作者。该课程的大部分课程安排在晚上，因此该课程是为那些认识到21世纪迅速变化的世界需要一套新的领导才能的艺术领域的专业工作人员而设计的。
The graduate program in arts leadership is a two-semester certificate program for artists, arts administrators and cultural workers of all types to develop the skills necessary to become successful leaders in the arts and arts organizations in a rapidly changing and radically altered contemporary world. The program is based in the Thornton School of Music, but it is designed to be applicable for artists/students engaged in any of the arts disciplines who want to develop their leadership skills in the hybrid and holistic environment of the contemporary arts. The program is highly individualized and deeply student centered in its approach, with simultaneous emphases on research, discovery, theory and current practice. With strong faculty mentorship and guidance from the director of the program and other working professionals in the field, students explore the dimensions of the most current issues and ideas while developing specific real-world applications of these ideas to their own practice as artists and leaders.