Arts Management (Taught)

Our aim is to provide MA Arts Management students with:

• Advanced understanding of the subject of Arts Management

• Advanced knowledge and understanding of the most up-to-date theories and discourses in Arts Management and how these are influencing practice

• Knowledge of international trends in cultural policy and how they are affecting, and affected by, the practice of Arts Management

• Essential practical skills relating to Arts Management, particularly strategic planning, financial management, business planning and engaging audiences

• A sophisticated level of critical and divergent thinking and expression

• Skills appropriate to self-directed study and independent research

• Awareness of different research methodologies and their application to the work of arts managers

• Further developed wider intellectual and transferable skills, consistent with creative thought and independent learning.