Monash University Handbook 2010 Postgraduate - Course

The Master of Cultural Arts is an interdisciplinary degree designed to equip students with advanced knowledge and skills necessary for participating in and managing creative arts sectors and industries. A key feature of the degree is its flexibility.

At the completion of the course students will have acquired:

• knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for the participation in and management of creative arts sectors and creative industries
• knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research
• critical understanding of the cultural, social, institutional and economic context in which creative processes and actions occur
• critical understanding of the role of creative behaviours in contemporary organizations, economies, markets and polities
• theoretical knowledge, communicative competency, critical reflection, ethical understanding, and problem-solving capacities relevant to the management of creative processes and environments
• enhanced capacity to formulate and research creative and cultural issues
• enhanced understanding of creative action and its ethical limits
• increased intellectual independence and ability to analyse and evaluate arguments and performances and creative artefacts
• greater self-reliance in intellectual and professional activity, and greater understanding of the knowledge, skills, and attributes required in management and senior professional roles
• substantially enhanced employment-related generic skills, including high-level problem-solving, interpersonal, and collaborative skills, written and oral communication skills, understanding of the nature of creative organisations
• enhanced understanding of critical, ethical and aesthetic approaches to the study of the creative arts and creative industry sectors.

This courses consists 24 points of core units, 24 points in a chosen specialisation and 24 points in a chosen focus. A minimum of 24 point must be taken at level five.

Core units

Students complete two units (24 points) as follows:

• MCA4020 Creativity
• MCA4040 Creative Industries

Specialisations

Students complete two units (24 points) from one of the streams below.

Arts management

• MCA4010/MCA5010 Arts Management: Organizations and Processes
• MCA4030/MCA5030 Arts Management: Strategy and Policy

Creative writing

• ENM4260/ENM5260 Writers and the creative process
• ENM4750/ENM5750 Exotic erotic other: World writing in English

Critical inquiry

• CRT4100/CRT5100 Deleuze and Foucault
• CRT4200/CRT5200 Semiotics and post-structuralism
• CRT6000 Critical theory: A survey

Film

• FTM4220/FTM5220 Experimental screen culture
• FTM5320 Reframing authors and genres

Literature

• ENM4210/ENM5210 Writing the child
• ENM4620/ENM5620 Literary theory
• ENM4700/ENM5700 Drama of the age of Shakespeare
• ENM4760/ENM5760 Visions and revisions: Reworkings

Music industries

• COM4240/COM5240 Music, media, culture
• COM4270/COM5270 Cultural production and consumption of music

Performance studies

• DTH4001/DTH5001 Design for theatre
• DTH4003/DTH5003 Performance investigation
• DTH4004/DTH5004 Rethinking theatre history

Public communication

• COM4xxx/COM5xxx Cultural policy and collective identity
• COM4230/COM5230 Media, politics and everyday life

Publishing and editing

• PUB4002/PUB5002 Authorship, editing and text
• PUB4003 Publishing processes and new technology

Rhetoric

• COM4260/COM5260 Rhetoric: Public address
• COM4250/COM5250 Rhetoric: Public performance

War studies

• COM4110/COM5110 Battle lines: War and (post)modernity
• COM4120/COM5120 Cultural memory and the Spanish civil war
• COM4550/COM5550 Eyewitness: Reportage, representation and war

Focus units

Students complete 24 points in a chosen focus.

Research

• Research project (24 points)

Industry

• Industry project (24 points)
• Industry internship (24 points)

Management  

Four 6pt management units selected from the following offered at Caulfield:

• MGX5440 Public sector financial management
• MGX5300 Governance
• MGX9220 Work and employment relations
• MGX9230 Public policy
• MGX9270 Public management
• MGX9280 Leadership theory and practice
• MGX9420 E-business
• MGX9600 Managing people and organisations
• MGX9660 International business theory and practice
• MGX9720 Managing organisational change
• MGX9761 Strategic management
• MGX9850 Human resource management
• MGX9940 Managerial effectiveness

Students who have completed studies in this course to the value of:

• 24 points may apply to exit with a Graduate Certificate in Cultural Arts
• 48 points may apply to exit with a Graduate Diploma in Cultural Arts.

Master of Cultural Arts
Master of Cultural Arts (Arts Management)
Master of Cultural Arts (Creative Writing)
Master of Cultural Arts (Critical Inquiry)
Master of Cultural Arts (Film)
Master of Cultural Arts (Literature)
Master of Cultural Arts (Music Industries)
Master of Cultural Arts (Performance Studies)
Master of Cultural Arts (Public Communication)
Master of Cultural Arts (Publishing and Editing)
Master of Cultural Arts (Rhetoric)
Master of Cultural Arts (War Studies)

Where more than one award is listed the actual award(s) conferred may depend on units/majors/streams/specialisations studied, the level of academic merit achieved, or other factors relevant to the individual student's program of study.