MA Arts and Cultural Leadership at University of Southampton

The MA Arts and Cultural Leadership is an innovative  one-year programme. Through engaging with diverse industry partners, and exploring concepts and creative practices, you will understand and shape the role of arts and culture as a creative and critical change-making and futures-making practice. The MA’s core values of social justice, sustainability, and equity and belonging are embedded throughout the exploration of these topics.

Faculty: Arts and Humanities  |  Department: Art, design and fashion  |  Duration: 1 year full-time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Southampton, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

You'll study this full-time master's course over 12 months. In the first 9 months (semesters 1 and 2), you'll study the taught part of your course. For the last 3 months, you'll take your final project module, developing your expertise in project management in order to undertake original research.

Career pathways

Graduates commonly work in sectors including events venues, local council libraries, universities, education providers, museums, galleries, media groups, local and national government. Careers directly related to the course include visual arts cataloguer, heritage consultant, art consultant, exhibition executive, museum curator, gallery curator, artistic director, cultural strategist.

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