Arts Policy And Management (Ma)
Master
In London
Description
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Type
Master
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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 MA Arts Policy and Management is ideal if you are an arts manager 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.
The MA gives you a chance to explore the requirements and benefits of strategic management, leadership, power relations and policy and to analyse evaluations within art production. The programme balances theory and practice within the context of the current social, political, economic and technological environments. We invite you to develop and expand your key critical thinking skills in smaller discursive seminar groups focusing on public and voluntary sector arts organisations, but also address key commercial sector issues.
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 the creative arts, education and museums/galleries. Possible professions include higher education lecturer, museum/gallery curator, or arts administrator. This degree may also be useful in becoming a community arts worker or multimedia specialist.
Jobs gained by some of our Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma and MA graduates include:
Tour Producer, Sadlers' Wells
Development Manager, Almeida Theatre
Head of Marketing, Talawa Theatre Company
Administration, Artsadmin
Senior Creative Producer, Studio 3 Arts
Community Projects Manager, London Symphony Orchestra
Engagement and Communications Manager, National Opera Studio
Curator, Chinese Visual Festival
Managing Director, Finborough Theatre
Curator, Contemporary Middle East, V&A
Marketing Associate, ATG
Founder Director, The Faction Theatre
Special Adviser and Policy Maker, ACE
Marketing Manager, Battersea Arts Centre
Producer, Greenwich Dance Agency
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 MA.
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
- Media
- Planning
- Art
- Marketing
- Design
- Cultural Studies
- Public
- Management
- Methodologies
- Completes
- Dissertation
- Spring
Course programme
The MA consists of the core module Understanding Arts Policy and Management, an introduction into research methodologies for arts policy and management (autumn term), two specialist option modules (spring term) and one additional option module (either autumn or spring term). Together with the dissertation this completes your study programme in September when studying full-time.
Part-time students take the core module, research methods and one option module in Year 1, and in Year 2 choose two more option modules and complete a dissertation.
Additionally, you may take one non-accredited module per term, meaning you participate in the module like every other student but you are not obliged to undertake the final coursework.
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
- Curating as Critical Practice (30 CATS)
- Digital Culture
- Managing the Performing Arts (30 CATS)
- Media, Digitalisation and the City (level 7)
- The Inside Out of Culture: Theories and Institutions
- User Experience Design
- Dissertation
Additional information
One year full-time or two years part-time
FEES
Part-time home students: £4410 pa
Part-time international students: £8010 pa
Full-time international students: £16020 pa
Arts Policy And Management (Ma)