MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise

Course summary:

MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise acknowledges the need for multi-skilled individuals who can both generate the ideas for original arts and cultural events, and provide leadership for the teams that realise them.

The course is aimed at graduates with some work experience who wish to challenge themselves by developing innovative approaches to arts management and cultural production. Two study routes are available, a two year part-time option, and a Flexible Learning option which is a unit-by-unit approach that allows candidates up to five years to complete. Both routes are low-residency and combine online learning and intensive face-to-face sessions.

This course is part of the Culture and Enterprise Programme.

Great reasons to apply:

• Alongside critical and creative thinking, you'll acquire business skills which are highly attractive to potential employers. You'll learn how to manage creativity, but also how to bring creativity to management
• You don't need to live in London, or give up work or care duties to enrol on the course. MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise is a low-residency degree which you can take part-time over two years, or in a flexible mode with registration up to five years
• You are encouraged to apply your learning to your own, individual, professional contexts and can choose to pursue a practice-based final project. During intensive teaching weekends in London, you will draw on our location in the heart of London to attend arts and cultural events, and meet professionals working in the arts
• Your tutors are professionally active in the field of arts management. University of the Arts London is in the top 30 in in the UK's latest higher education audit, and a top five-research university in its broader peer group
• The course is aimed at individuals with some work experience who are looking to take their careers to the next level, or move into the arts and cultural management sectors from a related field. As you collaborate with your peers, you will expand your professional and intellectual network of colleagues working in the arts and cultural sectors
• Your study of innovation in cultural production is matched by the pioneering pedagogical model adopted by the course. MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise has two cohorts: one in London and one in Hong Kong. This helps you to expand your collegiate network and ensures the worldwide reputation and relevance of your degree.

The course is aimed at graduates with some work experience who wish to challenge themselves by gaining a critical understanding of our world today.

Course details:

Information provided by the University is accurate at the time of first publication. Courses, however, remain subject to change. Changes may be necessary to improve the quality of educational services, in order to meet the latest requirements of a commissioning or accrediting body, in order to bring course content in line with best practice activities across the Higher Education sector, in response to student feedback, and/or due to a lack of student demand for certain units or options. Events may arise outside of the reasonable control of the University which lead to changes to courses. Such events may include industrial action, civil disorder, severe weather, and changes in applicable laws and/or safety requirements.

If you have accepted a place on a course, we shall notify you of any changes as soon as reasonably practicable.

MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise acknowledges that we are living in a fast-changing, globalised world, which presents a great number of opportunities and challenges for cultural innovation. This Masters programme takes these changing conditions as a starting point to engage you in developing new knowledge and skills in the fields of arts management and cultural production.

The course has been developed specifically in response to an increasing need for multi-skilled individuals who can both generate the ideas for original arts and cultural events, and provide leadership for the teams that realise them. These individuals will be dynamic, responsive, fluent in public and private sectors, and have the ability to collaborate and develop networks. The course addresses a contemporary shift within the cultural economy towards experiences and events, and away from the artefact. It is a response to multiple new forms of artistic and creative practice, which demand new, hybrid forms of cultural management and organisation.

MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise begins with a definition of enterprise as engaging with projects that are new, challenging and complex. It aims to enable you to gain a unique skill and knowledge set to become an active creator in arts management and cultural production, whether as entrepreneurs, or within larger existing cultural organisations, anywhere in the world.

The course is aimed at graduates with some work experience who wish to challenge themselves by gaining a critical understanding of our world today, in order to develop innovative approaches to arts management and cultural production. Focusing on the core capabilities of CSM, and its central role in the future of arts, design and other creative industries, it will offer you insights into aspects of cultural policy and governance, an introduction to business skills and processes, and strategic planning, which will equip you to shape creative futures. It will encourage radical thinking, based on creative research, analysis, and a deep understanding of the value of the cultural economy to the wider economic, political and social environment in which it is located.

Fees & Funding:

Home/EU fee Option 1 - Part time study

• Tuition fees for this course that starts in January 2020 are

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