Masters Degree Description
This Masters degree offers you the chance to engage with key issues in the theory and practice of cultural policy and arts administration, building on London’s position as one of the most important music centres in the world.
- This is a Music Pathway of the MA Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths. You will study audience development and engagement, fundraising, arts education, cultural tourism, regeneration through arts, arts diversity and social inclusion, copyright and the role of the arts in international relations and diplomacy, as well as connections with local, national and supranational cultural identities.
- Music Pathway students, in discussion with the Programme Director and lecturers, will be engaging with a particular music organisation as part of the Work Placement and Culture of Management Report. Your research project for the Dissertation module will focus on music industry policies and practice.
- Through individual research with focused tutorials from groups of lecturers from the programme, and a work placement with an arts organisation, you will develop essential practical skills in the highly competitive London music scene, and enhance your potential and employability as an arts administrator. Please note that a placement with any specific arts organisation is not guaranteed. However, we take you through a supportive process to connect you with an appropriate arts organisation.
- The programme also offers you one optional module in a complementary area, offered by the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Departments of Theatre and Performance, Design, and Music.
- We use London as our classroom, encouraging you to engage with one of the most exciting art cities in the world. The programme will also draw on relationships with creative organisations across the UK, particularly in Manchester, Bristol and Brighton. Some of the best practitioners from a number of companies, venues and key arts organisations in Europe and beyond teach on the programme, providing you with a direct link with the arts and wider creative industries profession. Explore our partners in learning.
- MA Arts Administration and Cultural Policy is a distinguished member of international professional networks such as the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC) and Association of Arts Educators (AAAE) in the USA, and a partner of the Asia-Pacific Network for Cultural Education and Research (ANCER) in Singapore.
Entry Requirements
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a subject concerned with arts and culture or another relevant/related subject.
You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.
Fees
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Programme Funding
Goldsmiths offers a range of financial support including postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and fee waivers. These are awarded based on a variety of criteria, for example academic achievements or personal circumstances.
Student Destinations
Graduates typically go on to careers in the following areas:
- Cultural policy: researching, developing, writing, analysing and evaluating policy for government agencies at national, regional and local level and for ‘think tanks’ concerned with culture and society
- Management in building-based and touring theatre, festivals, dance, music, and visual arts organisations
- Arts education, arts regeneration and arts for social and community purposes, all of which may be music-based
- Audience development, fundraising, programming and planning
- Independent producing in music, theatre, or gallery-based organisations
Many students from this programme now have careers in major arts organisations worldwide or have progressed to MPhil/PhD degrees.
Module Details
Modules within ICCE
- Cultural Policy and Practice 30 credits
- Introduction to Audience Development n/a
- Introduction to Fundraising n/a
- Seminar Series & Guest Speakers n/a
- Management and Professional Practice 1: Work Placement 30 credits
- Management and Professional Practice 2: Business Planning for Arts Organisations 30 credits
- MA Arts Administration & Cultural Policy: Dissertation 60 credits
Music Pathway option modules
It is advisable that you have studied a degree in Music, and covered some music theory prior to studying these modules. Most ICCE students take the Music Management module listed below. The modules currently available include:
- Contemporary Ethnomusicology 30 credits
- Critical Musicology and Popular Music 30 credits
- Material, Form and Structure 30 credits
- New Directions in Popular Music Research 30 credits
- Philosophies of Music 30 credits
- Popular Music: Listening, Analysis and Interpretation 30 credits
- Music Management 30 credit
- Sound Agendas 30 credits
- Sources and Resources in the Digital Age 30 credits
- Soviet and Post-Soviet Music and Politics 30 credits
- Strategies for Performance 30 credits
- Working with Original Musical Documents 30 credits
- Philosophies of Music 30 credits
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