Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required modules
- Arts and Cultural Management: Context, Theory, Debates (30 credits)
- Arts and Cultural Management: The Experience (30 credits)
Research Approaches and Dissertation (60 credits) choosing from the following:
- Traditional Dissertation
- Collaborative Dissertation with Cultural Partner
- Creative Research Project
Optional modules
- Collecting Cultures: Managing Collections in Museums and Collecting Organisations (15 credits)
- Exhibitions, Identities and Politics: in Museums and other Exhibiting Organisations (15 credits)
- Cultural Policy (15 credits)
- Contextualising Creativity (15 credits)
- Work in the Creative Economy (15 credits)
- Culture and the City (15 credits)
- Cultural Markets (15 credits)
- The Aesthetic Economy and Aesthetic Markets (15 credits)
- Art and Globalisation (15 credits)
- Readings of the Music Business (15 credits)
- International Heritage – Cultural Tourism (15 credits)
- Entertainment Industries (15 credits)
- Children, Media Industries and Culture (15 credits)
- Future Memory: Creating Connected Worlds (15 credits)
- Gender and Sexualities in East Asian Media (15 credits)
- Immersive Media and Extended Realities (15 credits)
- The Entrepreneurial Opportunity - Arts and Culture (selective entry) (15 credits)
- Festivals: Arts, Public Spaces and Community (15 credits)
- Gender, Media and Culture (15 credits)
- Cultural Memory (15 credits)
- Conflict, Diplomacy and International Relations (15 credits)
- Gaming Industries and Cultures (15 credits)
- Transnational Screen Cultures; Fashion Culture & Society (15 credits)
- Media Industries & the City (15 credits)
You may choose a maximum of 30 credits of modules from other departments within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and the King’s Language Centre, or, exceptionally, from a range of modules offered by the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy (notably the Department of Education and Professional Studies, and Department of Management), or the School of Law, subject to approvals.
If you’re a part-time student, you will take two required modules in your first year – Arts and Cultural Management: Context, Theory, Debates (30 credits), and Arts and Cultural Management: The Experience (30 credits). You will also take one or two optional modules (15 / 30 credits in total). In your second year, you will take the Research Approaches and Dissertation module (60 credits). You will also take two or three optional modules (30 / 45 credits in total). A total of 60 credits of optional modules are to be taken over the two years of study.
Teaching methods - what to expect
This is a one-year full-time course (two years part-time) that comprises modules totalling 180 credits. Your required modules provide a foundation for the master’s, and the diverse optional modules on offer will appeal to a wide range of interests, as well as giving you the opportunity to discover new areas of study. Alongside taught lectures, seminars and workshops in semesters one and two, you will be expected to undertake additional hours of self-study each week. In semester three, you will be expected to devote approximately 600 hours of independent study to your MA dissertation project, for which we will provide supervision guidance.
Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Assessment
- Research project
- Coursework
- Essays
- Presentations
- Group projects
- Portfolios
- Creative project work
- Reports
- Dissertation
Students are assessed through coursework. Forms of assessment may typically include essays, presentations, group work, portfolio of evidence, creative projects, reports, dissertation and creative and collaborative research projects. Coursework contributes 100% to your final mark.
Application closing date guidance
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time / Part time
Duration:
One year full-time, two years part-time, September to September
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026