Arts Management

Building on your own experience and background, you’ll expand your professional arts knowledge, management skills, entrepreneurial thinking and creative leadership skills.

Delivered in close collaboration with leading arts organisations, we’ll provide you with the theoretical framework, appropriate skills and practical experience to meet the challenges of working in your chosen field.

You’ll cover theory, critical thinking and skills development as well as gaining practical experience. You’ll analyse debates in and around culture and the arts, and apply them to contemporary practice, structures, funding and participation.

Our Arts Management course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the programme document for more information on which modules are core, required or optional.

• Arts Management in the 21st Century
• Placement
• Managing Arts and Cultural Events
• Extended Placement Project
• Dissertation
• Entrepreneurship
• Managing People
• Governance, Ethics and Risk Management
• Digital Marketing.

You'll be assessed by a variety of methods that may include some or all of the following across the various modules on the course:

• Reports on work-based assignments
• Research project reports
• Portfolios
• Reflective learning and work-experience journals
• Reviews
• Proposal papers for projects, funding or events, business plans, or strategy documents
• Project progress reports
• Project evaluations
• Presentations.

We combine academic study with professional work experience. You’ll learn through a variety of activities including lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials, online activity and discussion, work-based learning, and research projects.

Staff on this course offer you access to a wide range of academic and practical expertise in arts and cultural management. You’ll benefit from one-to-one tutorials, workshops, peer-support and shared learning. We work with you to ensure that what you learn on the course develops into effective practice in the workplace.

To find out more about how we teach and how you'll learn, please read our Learning and Teaching Delivery Statement.

As well as researching and reflecting on current policy and debate in arts and cultural management today, you'll also be introduced to people who are dealing with the reality of how these play out in arts organisations in practice. You'll benefit from being taught by a range of professional practitioners from across the arts and cultural sectors. They deliver lectures and workshops, mentor you on work experience and research projects, and become part of your own developing professional networks.

At the heart of this course is work-based experience and embedded networking opportunities. You'll have opportunities to assess current practice and to research the wider theoretical and academic contexts of arts and cultural management today.

Culture, the arts and the creative industries are estimated to be worth over £126 billion to the UK economy.

Careers in arts management are varied and cover every cultural and artistic area. They include roles in:

• Events and venue management
• Programming events and seasons
• Marketing
• Audience development
• Fundraising
• Community engagement and social inclusion
• Education and learning
• Managing artists and performers.

The majority of module workshops, seminars and tutorials are held at our Newton Park campus.