We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.
If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, our usual requirement is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 6.5, with not less than 6.0 in each of the sub-tests.
If you don’t meet the minimum IELTS requirement, we offer pre-sessional English courses, foundation programmes and language support services to help you improve your English language skills and get your place at Birkbeck.
The BA Arts and Media Management gives you the opportunity to learn from practitioners and academics actively working in the creative field about managing arts and media organisations in the film and TV sector, museums, galleries and theatres. This flexible programme of professional development forges a combination of creative, critical and management skills and knowledge, as well as developing your technical expertise. Focusing on transferable work-related knowledge and skills, it will enable you to meet the changing demands of creative work and critically engage with the sector. Underpinning this will be an understanding of the critical and theoretical literature on cultural labour and entrepreneurship, ownership and gatekeeping, curatorial practice, leadership, diversity and representation, cultural policy and copyright.
The programme features pathways designed to assist your professional development and specialisation. You will have the opportunity to develop a business plan/funding proposal under the guidance of relevant industry practitioners or undertake a work placement. Depending on your choice of modules and final project, you will graduate with a BA Arts Management, BA Media Management or BA Arts and Media Management.
This programme is also available for part-time evening study over four years.
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Year 1 Core Modules
Creative Organisations
Doing Film, Media and Cultural Studies
Year 2 Core Modules
Cultural Labour and Entrepreneurship
Developing Creative Projects
Year 3 Project
Project BA Arts and Media Management
Project BA Arts Management
Project BA Media Management
Indicative Option Modules - Cinema
Approaches to Cinema History
Cinema Today
Contemporary European Cinema
Documentary
Film Theory: Key Concepts and Contexts
French Cinema: History, Practice, Analysis
Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
Introduction to Cinema
Media, Technology and Culture
Theorising Japanese Cinema
Working with Film Sound
Working with Found Footage
Working with the Film Camera
World Cinema
Indicative Option Modules - Cultural Theory and Policy
Globalisation and Media Cultures
Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
Media Studies: Key Thinkers and Approaches
Media, Digitalisation and the City (level 6)
Media, Technology and Culture
Memory and Media
Thinking Through Digital Media
Indicative Option Modules - Journalism
Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
Introduction to Journalism Practice
Journalism: Interview Skills and Feature Writing
Media Law and Regulation
Principles of Digital Video and Editing
Principles of Layout and Design
The Versatile Journalist
Indicative Option Modules - Performing Arts
Aliveness and the Arts
Curating Culture
Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
Performing/Live Arts: Histories, Networks and Organisations
Understanding Audiences: Engagement, Education and Development
Indicative Option Modules - PR and Multimedia
Digital Media Design and Development
Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
Introduction to Public Relations
Professional and Strategic Communications
Social Media for Creative Practitioners
Web Design and Development: Making the Web Work
Indicative Option Modules - Screenwriting
Aspects of Screenwriting: Adaptation
Aspects of Screenwriting: Comedy
Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
Screenwriting
Screenwriting - The Thirty-Minute Script
Indicative Option Modules - Television
Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
Media, Technology and Culture
Storytelling in Television
Television: History and Future
Indicative Option Modules - Theoretical Perspectives on Journalism
Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
Journalism and Politics
Journalism in British Life
Media and Conflict
Media, Digitalisation and the City (level 6)
Media, Technology and Culture
Indicative Option Modules - Visual Arts
Aliveness and the Arts
Curating Culture
Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
Understanding Audiences: Engagement, Education and Development
Visual Art: Histories, Networks and Organisations
Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.
This programme is designed to assist in entering and developing careers in the creative and cultural industries. Potential career paths include (but are not limited to): curating, journalism, visual and performing arts, television, music and film industries; publishing; arts education.
We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
