My purpose is to prepare arts workers who are comfortable with radically shifting arts orientations and who do not shy away from a critical encounter with current events. I do this by collaborating with students in considering art, education, and arts management as they are being debated and conceptualized within a global community. Students encounter course content in a learning environment designed to foster critical thinking, an understanding of group process, consensus decision making, and participatory research. Course assignments are designed to accommodate a variety of student learning styles. Class sessions are conceived as forums in which students are encouraged to speak of their own convictions and respond critically to the convictions of others.