Course summary

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.

• 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.