Course Overview

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 organizations, 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 analyze evaluations within art production. The program 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. 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.

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 relevant experience, for example in a senior management role in an arts/cultural organization.

Part Time Work Details

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.