Monash University Handbook 2010 Postgraduate - Unit

Synopsis

In this unit students consider the management of arts organizations. Specific themes include the resourcing, facilities, funding, budgets, personnel, human resource management, decision-making, authority, status, intellectual property, bargaining patterns and institutional culture of creative, arts, and cultural organizations.

Objectives

On the successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. An understanding of the general principles of arts management.
2. An understanding of the relation between creative endeavor and management controls.
3. An enhanced capacity to analyze high-level management problems in creative, arts or cultural organizations.
4. An ability to explain and analyze course concepts and debates in written and oral forms, and to engage at a high level of independent research.

Assessment

Essay 1 (Theory and debates) (4000 words): 40%
Essay 2 (Case study) (5000 words): 60%

Chief examiner(s)

Elizabeth Paton

Contact hours

One 2- hour seminar per week

Prerequisites

Completion of Bachelor of Arts or equivalent

Prohibitions

MCA4010