Arts & Cultural Management

Course detail Description

This innovative master’s course is specifically designed to meet the needs of an arts and cultural manager. You will learn the vital importance of creativity, given the increasingly global nature of competition, as well as the opportunities and challenges posed by new technologies.

Our Arts & Cultural Management MA is suitable for you whether you are new to the field or if you already have relevant professional experience.

The course works in partnership with a range of arts organisations from across the city to offer you unparalleled exposure to the practicalities of cultural management. Through our required modules, you will engage with experienced cultural managers and leading London-based arts organisations. We will support you in your search for an internship, if you want to gain work experience in the arts or creative industries and develop the skills, knowledge and motivation needed to build a career. We can also provide careers guidance through a dedicated member of staff.

Previous students from within the Department have interned at the National Theatre, Barbican Centre, British Council, British Film Institute, Hayward Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Screen Digest, The British Museum, CIDA (Cultural Industries Development Agency), MTV, Donmar Warehouse, Google and the V&A Museum, which gives you an idea of the exciting opportunities on offer.

Teaching
If you’re a full-time student we will provide you with 140 hours of teaching over the course through lectures and seminars. We will expect you to undertake 1,668 hours of independent study.

If you’re a part-time student, in your first year we will provide 76 hours of teaching, and we will expect you to undertake 540 hours of independent study. In your second year, we will provide 78 hours of teaching, and we will expect you to undertake 1,128 hours of independent study.

Typically one credit equates to 10 hours of work.

Assessment
We will assess your performance entirely through coursework and a dissertation.

Regulating body
King’s College London is regulated by the Office for Students.

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Structure

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

You are required to take:

• Arts & Management (20 credits)
• Cultural Management: The Experience (20 credits)
• Research Approaches (20 credits)

You are also required to take one of the following:

• Dissertation (60 credits)

or

• Arts-based Research Project (60 credits)

In addition, you are required to take 60 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

• Marketing the Arts: Theory & Practice in the Real World (20 credits)
• Inside Today’s Museum (collaboration with Tate) (20 credits)
• Cultural Policy (20 credits)
• Visual Culture (20 credits)
• Cultural Management in Small Arts & Cultural Organisations (20 credits)
• Culture & the City (20 credits)
• Music & American Culture (20 credits)
• Cultural Markets (20 credits)
• Gender, Media & Culture (20 credits)
• Fashion, Culture & Society (20 credits)
• Aesthetic Economy & Aesthetic Markets (20 credits)
• Transnational Screen Production (20 credits)
• Art & Globalisation (20 credits)
• Entertainment Industries (20 credits)
• Contextualising Creativity (20 credits)
• Towards Tomorrow’s Museum (collaboration with Tate) (20 credits)
• Readings in the Music Business (20 credits)
• Cultural Memory (20 credits)
• Conflict, Diplomacy & International Relations (20 credits)
• Cultural & Creative Industries in China (20 credits)
• Children, Media Industries & Culture (20 credits)
• Media on the Move: Products & Power (20 credits)
• Future Memory: Creating Connected Worlds (20 credits)
• Festivals: Arts, Public Spaces & Communities (20 credits)
• Entrepreneurial Opportunity: Arts & Culture (20 credits)
• Museum Curating Now (collaboration with Tate) (20 credits)
• Digital Media Production Cultures (20 credits)

For more info visit our module pages.

You may choose 20 credits of modules from within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Modern Language Centre, subject to approvals.

You may also choose from a range of modules offered by the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy (notably the Department of Education and Professional Studies, and Department of Management), or the School of Law, subject to approvals.

If you’re a part-time student, you’ll take Arts & Management (20 credits) and Cultural Management: The Experience (20 credits) in your first year, along with up to 40 credits of optional modules. In your second year, you’ll take Research Approaches (20 credits) and choose either to take Dissertation or Arts-based research Project (60 credits) plus up to 40 credits of optional modules. A total of 60 credits of optional modules are taken over the 2 years of study.

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.