Arts Management (Postgraduate Diploma)
Postgraduate
In London
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
Arts management plays a vital role in designing, shaping and supporting the arts, helping to ensure that access, freedom and equality are achieved across all aspects of the cultural sector. Our flexible Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Management is ideal if you are an arts manager already, and wish to develop your practice and deepen your understanding of the background, theories and principles of arts and cultural management. Alternatively, if you are contemplating a career in arts policy and management and aim to understand current trends and debates that inform the day-to-day running of arts organisations, it provides a comprehensive overview of the sector.
Making the most of our central London location, you can take advantage of one of the largest concentrations of art spaces, cultural organisations and festivals, with the British Museum, Wellcome Gallery, Bloomsbury Festival and West End theatres, and a wealth of other museums and galleries within walking distance. For those who want to deepen their sector experience, we offer a placement module that encourages students to work on their own research interests within an arts organisation. Past students have had valuable experiences in organisations ranging from the Greater London Authority to the Hackney Museum, and from the Big Dance Project to the Wallace Collection.
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About this course
Graduates can pursue careers in education, museums/galleries and the creative arts. Possible professions include higher education lecturer, museum/gallery curator, or arts administrator. This degree may also be useful in various roles in the creative industries, as well as in becoming a community arts worker or multimedia specialist.
We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.
You should have a second-class honours degree (2:2) or above in an arts subject, or in any subject together with experience of administration/management in an arts/cultural organisation, or three years’ relevant experience, for example in a senior management role in an arts/cultural organisation. On the basis of prior learning and achievement, exemption may be possible for up to 50% of Year 1 elements of the programme.
Applications are reviewed on their individual merits and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be taken into consideration positively.
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Subjects
- Music
- Media
- Planning
- Art
- Marketing
- Cultural Studies
- Public
- Dissertation
- Compulsory
- Management
- Specialist
Course programme
You must successfully complete modules worth a total of 120 credit points. The structure of the programme is exactly the same as our MA Arts Policy and Management, but you do not undertake a dissertation. You take compulsory, core and option modules and create a specialist pathway.
If you are studying full-time, you take one core module and two compulsory modules, and select two specialist option modules and one additional option module, all in one year.
If you are studying part-time, in Year 1 you take one core module and two compulsory modules, and select one specialist option module. In Year 2 you select your second specialist option module and an additional option module.
CORE MODULE
- Understanding Arts Policy and Management
- Research Methods in Media and Cultural Studies
- Room at the Top: Professional Practice in the Creative and Cultural Industries
- Arts Policy and Management Work Placement
- Audiences: Communities, Participation and Learning
- Comparative Cultural Policies
- Creating a Public. Museums and their audiences
- Creating Contemporary Exhibitions (30 CATS)
- Curating as Critical Practice (30 CATS)
- Digital Culture
- Legal Aspects of Arts Management
- Managing the Performing Arts (30 CATS)
- Media, Digitalisation and the City (level 7)
- Staging Music Events and Festivals
- The Inside Out of Culture: Theories and Institutions
Additional information
One year full-time or two years part-time
FEES
Part-time home students: £2940 pa
Part-time international students: £5340 pa
Full-time international students: £10680 pa
Arts Management (Postgraduate Diploma)