Arts and Cultural Management

ATTENTION: This study program can no longer be chosen. In 2018, it has been substituted by the program Management with its four specializations Marketing, Media Communication, Arts & Entertainment and Event.

I love all those who walk a different path. Who can turn the world upside down and make us reconsider what we already know, or simply fascinate us with their thinking. I love the people who can inspire and enrich us with their music, their painting or their writing. Maybe there's a bit of artist hidden inside me. But more than that there's a drive in me to that wants to promote art and culture in a world where culture and the economy are ever more interconnected.

That's why I chose a degree course in Arts and Cultural Management at Karlshochschule. I can learn how culture actually works, which people and organizations are involved, and what makes us recognize something as culture or art. As I study I'll get to know the movers and shakers in the cultural sector and will preparing for the future, possibly as the organizer of cultural events in a museum or as a cultural manager in an agency. There are so many possibilities I can imagine I will be studying my passion at Karlshochschule.

Degree Program Structure

Karlshochschule opens up a whole new, exciting world with each module in the Arts and Cultural Management study program. When I look at the module overview, I discover at the same time how the contents of my studies are logically interconnected, thereby revealing Arts and Cultural Management to me as an overarching whole.

 

Study year 1: Analysis and Strategy in Management and Scientific Research Methods  

Introduction to Arts and Cultural Management

6 ECTS

Introduction to Management and its Quantitative Methods

10 ECTS

Business Environment

10 ECTS

Introduction to Scientific Research Methods

10 ECTS

English as a Foreign Language 1

4 ECTS

Arts and Culture: History, Theory and Society

6 ECTS

Markets, Culture, Communication

5 ECTS

Basic Principles in Strategic Management

5 ECTS

English as a Foreign Language 2

4 ECTS

Study year 2: Transfer of theoretical knowledge to company projects  

Challenging Actors: Networks, Mediations, Dramaturgies

6 ECTS

Cultural Policy, Financing and Law

6 ECTS

Introductory Company Project

6 ECTS

Resources

6 ECTS

Foreign Language 2.1

6 ECTS

Strategic Arts and Cultural Management in Different Institutions and Social Contexts

6 ECTS

Arts Communication, Marketing and Education

6 ECTS

Advanced Company Project

6 ECTS

Managerial Accounting

6 ECTS

Foreign Language 2.2

6 ECTS

Study year 3: Internship, semester abroad and Bachelor Thesis  

Current Issues in Arts and Cultural Management: Research Colloquium

6 ECTS

Internationalizing Arts and Cultural Management: Field Studies

6 ECTS

Elective: Ethics in Management: Globalization - Sustainability - Practice

6 ECTS

Change & Innovation

6 ECTS

Elective: Culture & Language

6 ECTS

Internship

18 ECTS

Bachelor Thesis including its defense

12 ECTS
Nur Bakkar

Nur Bakkar, Arts and Cultural Management

"Intimate, informal, creative, productive and practical – that's how I would describe my everyday routine at Karlshochschule. I have fun here and feel good. I can contribute to the development of my degree program and get to know some really interesting people."

Isabella Blatter

Isabella Blatter, Arts and Cultural Management

"Parallel to my Arts and Cultural Management studies, I also work in the Marketing and Communications department. Here I have the opportunity to assist with work on a range of different projects – and my ideas are welcome, too. It's great fun to use my imagination to influence and enrich my University."

Arts and Cultural Management

I imagine turning management into art.

Arts and Cultural Management