Course Overview

Our arts policy and management course gives you a chance to explore the requirements and benefits of sustainable and strategic arts policy and management. You will analyze leadership contexts and power relations in bringing together policy and managerial approaches related to current trends and issues. Examples of this include work to address gender imbalances through art activism, diversity, and equity through intersectional applications and the interpretation of cultural values as cultural policy rationales. You will evaluate art productions and audiences as seen through an art policy and management lens.

The course provides you with a comprehensive overview of the sector. It 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 organizations but also address key commercial sector issues.

General Eligibility

You should have a second-class honors degree (2:2) or above in an arts subject, or in any subject together with the experience of administration/management in an arts/cultural organization, or three years of relevant experience, for example in a senior management role in an arts/cultural organization.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, the requirement for this program is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 7.0, with not less than 6.5 in each of the sub-tests.