Year 1
Your first year is spent building a solid foundation in a broad range of management subjects relevant to the music, entertainment, theatre and events industries. You develop your skills in marketing, finance, entertainment law and raising funds. To place your work into context, you begin to develop your awareness of the performing arts economies and how they are situated in relation to political and social contexts. You start to put your theoretical knowledge into practice and explore your own professional practice through collaborating on projects with fellow students from Management and other courses.
All students take all of the modules listed here.
Please click on each module for further information.
- Context 1
- Entertainment Law
- Introduction to Professional Practice
- Managing Organisations
- Marketing
- The Professional 1
- Raising Funds and Managing Finance
Year 2
This year, you start shaping your future career plans and tailor your learning around what you want to do when you graduate. As part of a small team, you have the opportunity to manage your own real-world project either here or externally with one of our many partners in the sector. You learn how to put a business idea into practice by developing the skills to produce your own business plan. Core management principles expand to include topics such as people management and your industry knowledge broadens by focusing on cultural policy.
All students take all of the modules listed here.
Please click on each module for further information.
- Context 2 (Cultural Policy)
- Enterprise and Business Planning
- Live Performance and Event Management
- Music, Entertainment, Theatre and Events Management in the Contemporary World
- Practical Management Project
- The Producers
- The Professional 2
Year 3
Your final year allows you to specialise and gives you a head start in your professional career. You spend the first three months gaining hands-on experience through a work placement with an organisation you choose based on your career ambitions; this not only gives you real working experience but also augments your networks across your chosen sector. You research and write a substantial report exploring a management issue of your choice. You also deliver a presentation to your peers and others at our annual Contemporary Issues in Management conference. Reflecting on the projects you’ve worked on across all three years, you produce a portfolio which documents your experiences and which you can use as evidence of your work to future employers and other stakeholders.
All students take all of the modules listed here.
Please click on each module for further information.
- Practical Management Placement (The Arts Manager)
- The Literature Review
- Management Research Paper
- The Professional 3
- Contemporary Issues in Management
