Arts Management (Certificate of Higher Education) - 2012/2013 entry

• Gain a University of London qualification – expand your knowledge and enhance your CV.
• Birkbeck has a strong reputation in the field of arts management – classes are taught by arts and cultural industry professionals.
• Gain a good understanding of a wide range of arts organisations in London that will enhance your career prospects.
• Study with academics currently researching the arts and their organisation.
• Past students have gone on to work at major galleries, arts charities and the Arts Council.

What is the role of the arts in contemporary society? How do you secure funding for arts organisations? What is the best way of staging different types of productions? How do you attract audiences? What policies should be devised to guide all of these activities? What makes an engaging project proposal?

Birkbeck offers a fascinating range of options for students interested in improving their skills and knowledge in arts management. You will learn how arts organisations are managed, how policies are conceived, how press campaigns are organised, and how arts programmes are devised and evaluated. You will also develop a more critical understanding of equality and access issues and of the post-war history of the arts, as well as an enhanced range of communication skills that are essential to arts management.

To gain the Certificate of Higher Education, you must successfully complete modules worth a total of 120 credit points.

You can take either four Level 4 modules or three Level 4 modules plus one Level 5 module.  

The Level 5 modules aim to develop the necessary practical skills and critical knowledge required to conceive and manage a creative project based on your chosen field of interest. You will build upon your understanding of a specific area of the arts gained in one or more of the Level 4 modules, and you will follow a project idea through its preparatory stages with the support and critical input of the tutor. (Prerequisite: any Level 4 Arts Management module.)

Alternatively, you may include modules worth up to 30 credits from other relevant programmes in this prospectus, such as our Certificates of Higher Education in Film and Media, History of Art, and Management, with the approval of the course director.

Modules

Level 4 modules

Level 5 modules

We offer a Foundation Degree in Arts and Media Management, a Graduate Diploma in Arts Management and an MA/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate in Arts Policy and Management.

ME (modular enrolment): enrol for individual modules (see 'Course structure and modules').