Arts Management courses & programs
Arts Management
Arts Management studies at the University of Melbourne offer vocationally orientated courses to prepare students for a management career in the arts industry, including the performing and visual arts, cultural policy and arts administration. The program focuses on the relationship of management to creative production and presentation with particular attention to the unique characteristics of management in a creative environment. Through two levels of study, a Postgraduate Diploma and a Masters, students develop critical insights into the policy, legal, financial and broad cultural contexts in which the arts operate in Australia and other countries.
Arts Management courses aim to prepare graduates to work in diverse arts industry contexts, from large organisations and government departments to self-employment. Arts professionals and academics teach across the two courses, sharing invaluable insights and expertise, as well as creating opportunities for the students to network with arts managers.
Our teaching is informed by the distinctiveness of the arts industry, namely its hybrid character as both an industry in which commercial and non-commercial creative production occurs and an environment in which ideas and identities are formed and performed. The courses therefore seek to deliver grounded subjects that equip students for a career within the management structures of the industry together with challenging theoretical and analytical content that assists our graduates to participate in the ethical, political and philosophical dimensions of cultural practices.