Monash University Handbook 2011 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 organisations, 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 the following two units (24 points):

• APG4660 Creativity
• APG4662 Creative industries

Specialisations

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

Arts management

• APG4659/APG5659 Arts management: Organisations and processes
• APG4661/APG5661 Arts management: Strategy and policy

Creative writing

• APG4272/APG5272 Writers and the creative process
• APG4276/APG5276 Exotic erotic other: World writing in English

Critical inquiry

• APG4266/APG5266 Deleuze and foucault
• APG4418/APG5418 Semiotic and poststructural theory of literature and culture
• APG6724 Critical theory: A survey

Cultural economies

Students complete one of the following options:

Option one

• APG4900/APG5900 Cultural economies

plus one of the following:

• APG4659/APG5659 Arts management: Organizations Organisations and processes
• APG4661/APG5661 Arts management: Strategy and policy
• APG4415/APG5415 Cultural production and consumption of music
• APG4801 Publishing processes and new technology

Option two

• APG4900/APG5900 Cultural economies

and two of the following:

• MGX5120 Contemporary Asia
• MGX5310 International management process
• MGX5640 Cross-cultural management communication
• MGX5670 Leadership

Film and television studies

• APG4448/APG5448 Experimental screen culture
• APG4449/APG5449 Critical studies in television
• APG5772 Reframing authors and genres

Literature

• APG4270/APG5270 Writing the child
• APG4274/APG5274 Literary theory
• APG4275/APG5275 Drama of the age of Shakespeare
• APG4277/APG5277 Visions and revisions: Reworkings

Music industries

• ATS4412/APG5412 Music, media, culture
• APG4415/APG5415 Cultural production and consumption of music

Performance studies

• APG4422 Design for theatre
• APG4423/APG5423 Performance investigation
• APG4269/APG5269 Rethinking theatre history

Public communication

• ATS4xxx/ATS5xxx Cultural policy and collective identity
• ATS4411/APG5411 Media, politics and everyday life

Publishing and editing

• APG4670/APG5670 Authorship, editing and text
• APG4801 Publishing processes and new technology

Rhetoric

• ATS4413/APG5413 Rhetoric: Public performance
• ATS4414/APG5414 Rhetoric: Public address

War studies

• ATS4403/APG5403 Battle lines: War and (post)modernity
• ATS4404/APG5404 Cultural memory and the Spanish civil war
• APG4263/APG5263 Propaganda, censorship and the representation of 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 6-point management units selected from the following:

• 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 (Cultural Economies)

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 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.