Arts Policy And Management (Postgraduate Certificate)
Postgraduate
In London
Description
-
Type
Postgraduate
-
Location
London
-
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 Certificate in Arts Policy and 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.
You start with a core module that introduces overarching topics such as cultural identity, creative labour and management structures, cultural diversity and leadership, cultural evaluation and big data applications in arts management. You then specialise through your own tailored pathway, selecting one module, that combines knowledge and experience related to art subfields (eg performing, visual arts) or specific groups and stakeholders (eg artists, audiences, pro-sumer or cultural organisations) via a chosen contextual approach such as power, identity, memory, digitalisation or learning.
Facilities
Location
Start date
Start date
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.
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.
Applications are reviewed on their individual merits and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be taken into consideration positively. We actively support and encourage applications from mature learners.
Reviews
Subjects
- Music
- Planning
- Art
- Cultural Studies
- Event Management
- Governance
- Teaching
- Design
- Economics
- Marketing
- Exhibition
- Public
- Media
- Sport Marketing
Course programme
You must successfully complete modules worth a total of 60 credit points. The structure of the programme is exactly the same as our MA Arts Policy and Management, but you take fewer modules and do not undertake a dissertation.
You take one core module and one compulsory module, and select a specialist option module, all in one year.
CORE MODULE
- Understanding Arts Policy and Management
- COMPULSORY MODULE
- Research Methods in Media and Cultural Studies
- 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
Part-time home students: £2940 pa
Part-time international students: £5340 pa
Arts Policy And Management (Postgraduate Certificate)