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Master’s Degree Programme in Live Performance Engineering: Master’s Degree Programme in Live Performance Engineering

Code: K1324K6

Degree:
Master of Culture and Arts

Degree title:
Master of Culture and Arts

Credits:
60 ects

Duration:
1.5 years (60 cr)

Start semester:
Spring 2024

Descriptions

The degree offers professionals in the live performance industry the opportunity to develop and strengthen their expertise in management, supervision and development in the field of live performance engineering. After completing the degree the students is able to take on challenging technological-artistic work. During the studies the student will develop their lifelong learning and self-management skills and their ability to manage and lead development and reform.

The expertise provided by the Master's degree studies emphasises the development of professional skills together with professionals in the field. The degree programme emphasises the live performance professional's ability to manage production processes and development projects focusing on the future in a technological-artistic framework. The theory and lectures provided by industry professionals support the development of the student's professional skills. Changes in working life are taken into consideration by connecting programme content to the student's workplace and the research-based development work required in them.

Studies are carried out as flexible blended teaching that recognises the prior learning of the student. Blended teaching consist of contact and online teaching and various development assignment carried out in working life. After completion of the degree programme, the student will be awarded the degree Master of Culture and Arts (UAS).

Objective

Key learning objectives:
• Technological-artistic expertise and management
• Competence in production process design in live performance engineering
• Competence in the development of a sustainable work community

The student is able to construct their expertise and understands its importance in the framework of live performance engineering. In addition to developing critical thinking, the student is able to advance collaborative learning and utilise networks in the development of their expertise. The student is able to analyse and assess information about the future developments of the field of live performance engineering in relation to their own expertise. The student is able to develop their self-management skills and their personal well-being at work.

The student will learn to identify various production processes and develop collaboration between different sectors of live performance engineering productions. The student will promote ethical working practices in their operating environment. The student is able to take into account project-specific workplace safety and sustainable development issues. The student is able to develop well-being in a work community and can manage diversity. The student recognises and acknowledges diversity in a workplace and applies principles of equality in their work.

The student has in-depth understanding of the operating environments of the live performance sector. The student is able to apply theory in positions of responsibility and develops technological-artistic operating environments. The student can acquire, analyse, apply and produce information, and has in-depth understanding of the significance and effect of management styles in their work. The student is able to analyse the development of their own work and operating environment from an international perspective.

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Code Name Credits (cr) 2023-2024 2024-2025 Spring 2024 Autumn 2024 Spring 2025 3. / 2024 4. / 2024 1. / 2024 2. / 2024 3. / 2025 4. / 2025
K1324K6-1001
Advanced Professional Studies in Live Performance Engineering

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K000FK00 Development of Expertise in Live Performance Engineering 5
K000FK02 Management of the Technical-Artistic Work Community 5
K000EZ94 Production Process Design in Live Performance Engineering 5
K000FK06 Development of Organizational Competence 5
K1324K6-1002
Research and Development

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35
XX00EJ16 Research Methods and Skills 5
XX00FB87 Master’s Thesis 30
K1324K6-1003
Elective Studies

(Choose ects: 5)

5
Total 60 12.5 42.5 12.5 27.5 15 6.3 6.3 13.8 13.8 7.5 7.5

Due to the timing of optional and elective courses, credit accumulation per semester / academic year may vary.

STRUCTURE Master (A18.12.2014/1129)

Asetuksen 18.12.2014/1129 mukainen rakenne. 2 § Opintojen rakenne Ylempään ammattikorkeakoulututkintoon johtaviin opintoihin kuuluu: 1) syventäviä ammattiopintoja; 2) vapaasti valittavia opintoja; 3) opinnäytetyö.

Master´s Thesis
Master’s Thesis
Advanced Professional Studies
Development of Expertise in Live Performance Engineering
Management of the Technical-Artistic Work Community
Production Process Design in Live Performance Engineering
Development of Organizational Competence
Research Methods and Skills
Elective Studies

No attached course units

Not grouped

Esitys- ja teatteritekniikka (ylempi AMK)::kompetenssit

Luotu 2022

Competence in production process design in live performance engineering

The student is able to:
• identify the production processes and cost structures of theatres, cultural organisations and events.
• define key internal and external stakeholders of a live performance engineering project and recognises the importance of communication.
• understand the basics of quality thinking and is able to apply them in the professional field.
• apply various project management tools in technological-artistic work.
• develop their competence in live performance engineering design, technology, production, sustainable development or workplace safety.

Production Process Design in Live Performance Engineering
Master’s Thesis
Competence in the development of a sustainable technological-artistic work community

The student is able to:
• recognise and acknowledge diversity in a workplace and promotes principles of equality.
• utilise diversity management themes in a technological-artistic work community.
• take into account the promotion of work ability at different stages of a career as part of work and promote activities that support well-being at work.
• understand the prerequisites of workplace safety in live performance engineering and promote workplace safety.
• identify prerequisites of sustainable development and take them into account in designing.
• provide information and training about sustainable and safe operation in technological-artistic work.

Development of Expertise in Live Performance Engineering
Production Process Design in Live Performance Engineering
Development of Organizational Competence
Research Methods and Skills
Master’s Thesis
Technological-artistic expertise and management

The student is able to:
• recognise their identity as an expert in the field of live performance engineering.
• assess and develop their expertise in a target-oriented manner to meet the requirements of future working life.
• understand and apply management and leadership theories in the operating environment of the live performance sector.
• identify key concepts of organisation theory and organisational learning.
• identify key concepts, models and theories of change management.
• operate in the networks of culture and live performance fields.

Development of Expertise in Live Performance Engineering
Management of the Technical-Artistic Work Community
Master’s Thesis
Not grouped

ARENE 2022::UAS shared competences::Master’s degree

Replaces the “Metropolia's Generic Competences::Master's Degree” -matrix. Heidi Rontu/31.8.2022

Ethics

The graduating student assesses and promotes the realisation of ethical principles and values of their field of profession, taking equality and non-discrimination into account.
- Is able to promote ethically sustainable activities and the realisation of ethical reflection in their different operating environments.
- Promotes the realisation of the ethical principles and values of their field.
- Makes decisions taking individual, communal and societal perspectives into account.
- Promotes the realisation of diversity and accessibility.
- Implements the principles of responsible conduct of research and promotes their application in their work community.
- Is able to manage societally influential activities based on ethical values.

Management of the Technical-Artistic Work Community
Development of Organizational Competence
Research Methods and Skills
Master’s Thesis
Proactive development

The graduating student is able to manage the development of new solutions that anticipate the future and produces new information using different research and development methods.
- Produces new information and reforms operating methods, combining competence in different fields.
- Is able to implement research, development and innovation projects and apply different research and development methods.
- Is able to develop new customer-oriented, sustainable and economically viable solutions, anticipating the future.
- Is able to analyse the current situation and anticipate the future of their field and changes in the operating environment.

Development of Expertise in Live Performance Engineering
Production Process Design in Live Performance Engineering
Development of Organizational Competence
Research Methods and Skills
Master’s Thesis
Internationality and multiculturalism

The graduating student is able to develop and manage multicultural and international operating environments and networks.
- Is able to develop operating methods that take multiculturalism into account in their work community.
- Is able to anticipate the impacts and opportunities of global development and phenomena.
- Is able to interact, communicate and develop activities internationally in their own field.

Management of the Technical-Artistic Work Community
Development of Organizational Competence
Sustainable development

The graduating student develops and manages sustainable and responsible operating methods in their work and promotes sustainable change in their work community and society.
- Is able to apply the knowledge and future visions of sustainable development comprehensively as a basis for sustainable solutions.
- Is able to analyse and assess systemic dependencies of complex multidisciplinary problems and the different dimensions of solutions
- Is able to manage the search, implementation and establishment of sustainable solutions and operating models in their work

Management of the Technical-Artistic Work Community
Production Process Design in Live Performance Engineering
Development of Organizational Competence
Master’s Thesis
Learning to learn

The graduating student promotes their own and their community's continuous learning and competence development, drawing on knowledge from different fields and the opportunities of digitalisation.
- Is able to assess and develop their expertise diversely and in a goal-oriented manner at different stages of their career and life.
- Is able to acquire, critically assess and produce information while taking into account the perspectives of different fields.
- Is able to develop and manage goal oriented, continuous learning in their community.

Development of Expertise in Live Performance Engineering
Development of Organizational Competence
Research Methods and Skills
Master’s Thesis
Operating in a workplace

The graduating student is able to develop and manage their work community and reforms working life. - Is able to develop and manage multidisciplinary teams and work communities.
- Is able to develop the communication and interaction culture of work communities.
- Is able to develop and manage the comprehensive well-being of a work community.
- Utilises the opportunities of technology and digitalisation in development and management.
- Promotes the resilience of a work community.

Development of Expertise in Live Performance Engineering
Management of the Technical-Artistic Work Community
Production Process Design in Live Performance Engineering
Development of Organizational Competence
Master’s Thesis
Not grouped

Code Name Credits (cr)
K1324K6-1001
Advanced Professional Studies in Live Performance Engineering

(Choose all)

20
K000FK00 Development of Expertise in Live Performance Engineering 5
K000FK02 Management of the Technical-Artistic Work Community 5
K000EZ94 Production Process Design in Live Performance Engineering 5
K000FK06 Development of Organizational Competence 5
K1324K6-1002
Research and Development

(Choose all)

35
XX00EJ16 Research Methods and Skills 5
XX00FB87 Master’s Thesis 30
K1324K6-1003
Elective Studies

(Choose ects: 5)

5