Course Overview

The BA Arts and Media Management with Foundation Year give you the opportunity to learn from practitioners and academics actively working in the creative field about managing arts and media organizations in the film and TV sector, museums, galleries, and theatres. This flexible program of professional development forges a combination of creative, critical, and management skills and knowledge, as well as developing your technical expertise. Focusing on transferable work-related knowledge and skills, will enable you to meet the changing demands of creative work and critically engage with the sector. Underpinning this will be an understanding of the critical and theoretical literature on cultural labor and entrepreneurship, ownership and gatekeeping, curatorial practice, leadership, diversity and representation, cultural policy, and copyright. Before proceeding to the main degree, you will spend your Foundation Year preparing yourself for a degree in the arts by improving your study and research skills and gaining arts-related knowledge and understanding. You will also have the opportunity to take a language module as part of the Foundation Year.

General Eligibility

We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge, and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on the judgment of academic potential.

Part Time Work Details

Language Requirement

• If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, our usual requirement is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 6.5, with not less than 6.0 in each of the sub-tests.