The aim is to provide MA Arts Management students with:

- Advanced understanding of the subject of Arts Management

- Advanced knowledge and understanding of the most up-to-date theories and discourses in Arts Management and how these are influencing practice

- Knowledge of international trends in cultural policy and how they are affecting, and affected by, the practice of Arts Management

- Essential practical skills relating to Arts Management, particularly strategic planning, financial management, business planning and engaging audiences

- A sophisticated level of critical and divergent thinking and expression

- Skills appropriate to self-directed study and independent research

- Awareness of different research methodologies and their application to the work of arts managers

- Further developed wider intellectual and transferable skills, consistent with creative thought and independent learning.