Master’s Degree Programme in Cultural Management: Kulttuurituottaja (ylempi AMK)

Descriptions

Master's Degree Programme in Cultural Management

Level of qualification
Master of Culture and Arts

Qualification awarded
Master of Culture and Arts

Specific admission requirements
No specific admission requirements

Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning
With regard to the recognition and accreditation of acquired competencies, the Master´s Degree Programme in Cultural Management adheres to the following principles: Transfer of credit is possible when the student has completed studies generating similar competencies at some other higher education. The Master's Thesis cannot be completed by demonstration. The Master's Thesis also does not earn credit for another degree.

Qualification requirements and regulations
Completing the degree requires 60 ECTS credits specified in the curriculum.
See the Degree Regulations of Helsinki Metropolia UAS:>>

Profile of the programme
The programme focuses on strategic leadership and management of creative processes, as well as the related collaborative development competence, future's thinking competence and interactive management of services. Personal study plans are tailored for each student.

Key learning outcomes
Competence in strategic leadership, management and research-based development
o Students can analyse the development of their own work and operating environment from an international perspective. In addition, they learn to develop creative processes. They learn to build their expert identity as leaders of collaborative development work, and to apply the methods of strategic planning.

- Competence on interactive productization of services
o Students can assess the needs of various customer groups and users for culture-based services, and to use different types of models in service production. Students can produce information that benefits the party commissioning the project and the field in general.

Occupational profiles of graduates
Masters in Arts Management are experts who make cultural projects possible. They are responsible for planning, leading and developing of a cultural event or service. Typical work occupations focus on development of production processes in co-operation with many actors in an international network. Many work in cultural and leisure organisations, public sector cultural occupations and as cultural entrepreneurs.

Access to further studies
Eligible for polytechnic specialisation studies
Eligible to pursue university studies; in individual cases access to second-cycle university programmes (based on the decision by the receiving institution)

Course structure diagram
The course structure diagram is specified in the programme study plan>>

Examination regulations, assessment and grading
Each course has own examination regulations and foundation of grading that is specified in the curriculum.

Graduation requirements
All studies passed.

Mode of study
Core skills and competences are produced through four competence streams. Each areas of competence consist of several areas of specialization and deepening of one's skills.
1. Strategic leadership, management and productization of expertise 20 ECTS
1.1 Management, organizations and strategy work in the cultural sector 6 ECTS
1.2 Art and cultural competence, productization of user-driven services 6 ECTS
1.3 Internationalization as a strategy 4 ECTS
1.4 Expert identity and productization of competence 4 ECTS

2. Research-based development and master's thesis 35 ETCS
2.1 Research-based development methods 5 ECTS
2.2 Master's Thesis 30 ECTS

3 Strengthening of expert profile 5 ECTS

Programme director
Acting head of Department Katri Halonen (PhD, Fil.lic)
firstname.lastname@metropolia.fi

Development

Curriculum development in different fields is based on educational policies for the creative industries and studies on the success factors of the creative industries published in the 2000s at national level and in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The report “Eleven steps to a creative Finland” (2006) published by the Ministry of Education emphasizes the importance of creativity to the well-being of whole society, and in particular the need to change attitudes, ways of thinking and procedures, as well as the need to critically examine the structures and operational models of the creative industries. The Entrepreneurship Development Strategy for the Creative Industries 2015 (2007, 22–23) published by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (later the Ministry of Employment and the Economy) emphasizes the clarification of the developer network and states that one current key weakness is the lack of strategic competence. The task force on the future of the creative economy and cultural entrepreneurship set up by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy and the Ministry of Education and Culture bases its operations model on the assessment that there is sufficient competence in the production of creative contents in Finland, but their professional commercialization, distribution and marketing require significant development (Future Report 2011, 11).

In addition to these national policies, the curriculum development is based on the Cultural Manager 2020 joint development project of all Finnish universities of applied sciences offering degree programmes in cultural management: HUMAK University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, and Novia University of Applied Sciences. In addition, the Art and Cultural Professionals’ Trade Union (TAKU) as well as CUPORE - the Finnish Foundation for Cultural Policy Research took part in the project. The three-year Cultural Manager 2020 project (2009–2012) aimed to predict the state of cultural management in 2020. The project identified future knowledge challenges of cultural managers and produced valuable information for the development of cultural management education.
The curriculum development has been guided by the pedagogical strategies of HUMAK and Metropolia. The universities of applied sciences work in close cooperation with the labour market through student projects, training and theses. In addition to the above factors, the curriculum development has been influenced by feedback on tuition which has been collected systematically since the establishment of the degree programme in 2009.

In the new curriculum, special competence focuses on strategic management of creative processes, as well as the related collaborative development competence, future's thinking competence and interactive management of services.

Further information

Specific admission requirements
- No Specific admission requirements

Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning
- With regard to the recognition and accreditation of acquired competencies, the Master´s Degree programme in Cultural Management adheres to the following principles: Transfer of credit is possible when the student has completed studies generating similar competencies at some other higher education institution. The thesis cannot be completed by demonstration. The thesis also does not earn credits for another degree.

qualification requirements and regulations
- Completing the degree requires 60 ECTS credits specified in the curriculum.

profile of the programme
- Programme focuses on strategic leadership and management of creative processes, as well as the related collaborative development competence, future's thinking competence and interactive management of services. Personal study plans are tailored for each student.


key learning outcomes
- Competence in strategic leadership, management and research based development
o Students can analyse the development of their own work and operating environment from an international perspective. In addition, they learn to develop creative processes. They learn to build their expert identity as leaders of collaborative development work, and to apply the methods of strategic planning.

- Competence on interactive productization of services
o Students can assess the needs of various customer groups and users for culture-based services, and to use different types of models in service production and produce information that benefits the party commissioning the project and the field in general.

occupational profiles of graduates with examples
Masters in Arts Management are experts who make cultural projects possible. They are responsible for planning, leading and developing of a cultural event or service. Typical work occupations focus on development of production processes in co-operation with many actors in an international network. Many work in cultural and leisure organisations, in the public sector cultural occupations and as cultural entrepreneurs.

access to further studies
- Eligible for polytechnic specialisation studies
- Eligible to pursue university studies; in individual cases access to second-cycle university programmes (based on the decision by the receiving institution)

examination regulations, assessment and grading
Each course has its own examination regulations and foundation of grading that is specified in the curriculum.

graduation requirements
All studies passed.

mode of study
Core skills and competences are produced through four competence streams. Each areas of competence consist of several areas of specialization and deepening of one's skills.
1. Strategic leadership, management and productization of expertise 20 ECTS
1.1 Management, organizations and strategy work in the cultural sector 6 ECTS
1.2 Art and cultural competence, productization of used-driven services 6 ECTS
1.3 Internationalization as a strategy 4 ECTS
1.4 Expert identity and productization of competence 4 ECTS

2. Research-based development and thesis 35 ETCS
2.1 Research-based development methods 5 ECTS
2.2 Thesis 30 ECTS

3. Strengthening of expert profile 5 ECTS

programme director or equivalent
Acting head of Department Katri Halonen (PhD, Fil.lic)