MBA in Professional Arts Management - Level 7

Coracle logo The MBA in Professional Arts Management aims to provide students with an integrated and critically aware understanding of Arts Management and assist them in becoming effective Arts Managers.

It offers the opportunity to enable arts practitioners to gain a qualification that offers the road to success as a top class manager within the arts sector or to becoming self-employed. Designed to equip you with advanced business knowledge and understanding of finance, the MBA also gives you the practical skills required to run a business.

There will be the opportunity to exchange knowledge with Irish counterparts, and to discover the nuances between the different cultures.

All MBA programmes start in in September each year, there are no other intakes planned at present, and the courses are taught on the Lampeter campus (no distance learning).

Background

The MBA is run through CORACLE, which is an Interreg 4a Project.

Lead by Trinity Saint David University, CORACLE consists of a partnership of:

University of Wales – Trinity Saint David

Carmarthenshire County Council

IT Carlow (Wexford Campus)

Wexford County Council

Wexford Arts Centre

All partners have specific roles to play with regard to improving skills and knowledge within the field of art and culture – connecting creativity, including gallery, festival and literary exchanges, & the development of youth theatre and associated skills. 

TSD & IT Carlow are the main partners for the MBA.

Who are we looking for?

  • Individual arts practitioners
  • Managers of venues; galleries; festivals (e.g.)
  • Graduates

Admission requirement for a postgraduate programme is a degree or a professional qualification recognized as equivalent. A non graduate may also be admissible provided he/she has held, for a minimum of 2 years, a responsible position which is relevant to the scheme to be pursued or has successfully completed the University’s Masters Entry Programme (MEP)

Selection will be made through CV & interview

Applications from potential students with disabilities are particularly welcomed.

What does it entail?

  • Full time for 1 year
  • Part time over 2 years
  • Hard work, dedication & sacrifice
  • Long hours and deep thought
  • An achievable goal through hard work
  • Satisfaction on your achievement
  • Euphoria when you succee

Main Areas covered

Set modules as follows:-

  • Financial Management (10 credits)
  • Human Resource Management (10)
  • Marketing Management (10)
  • Strategic Management (10)
  • Individuals in Organisations (10)
  • Organisational Behaviour (10)
  • Research Methodology (20)

There are Pathway modules in:-

  • Culturepreneurship (10)
  • Funding in The Arts (10)
  • Arts Entrepreneurship (10)
  • Project (10) – Practice based learning
  • Final work will be a dissertation worth 60 credits

Total – 180 credits

Short Courses

We are proposing to run a selection of short courses prior to the MBA which are aimed at those of you who may have been out of academia for a while, and need a refresher and for those of you who hold management positions and would like to have a taste of working at HE Level 7. Details of these courses will be made available once the schedule has been agreed.

More Information

Summaries of what is involved, and the procedure taken to enrol are available upon request.

Contact details:- huw.thomas@tsd.ac.uk  or call:- 01570 424726

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