Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

The growth of arts programs, arts festivals, and arts and cultural precincts across Australia and internationally is driving demand for arts managers with strong management and administration skills. To be effective, arts managers must understand organisation, organisational management, and organisational planning processes. More critically, arts managers must be able to develop organisational structures and strategies appropriate for the arts, cultural and creative industries, in which micro, small-to-medium and government organisations often prevail, and in which policy, industrial and production contexts often change rapidly. In this unit, you will consider the role of the contemporary arts manager, and the skills arts managers require to develop, manage and maintain appropriate organisational structures and strategies for a range of arts, cultural and creative industries organisations.

Aims

This unit aims to equip you with the skills required to establish, manage and maintain effective organisational structures and strategies for a range of arts, cultural and creative industries organisations.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. Understand the arts manager's role in organising, developing and controlling an arts organisation
2. Identify appropriate organisational structures for arts, cultural and creative industries organisations
3. Establish, manage and maintain effective organisational structures
4. Establish, manage and maintain effective organisational strategies
5. Effectively communicate organisational structures and strategies to stakeholders

Content

This unit addresses content such as:
· Management, Arts Management, and the role of the Arts Manager
· Arts, cultural and creative industries organisational structures
· Arts, cultural and creative industries organisational strategies
· Organisational vision, mission, values, objectives and strategies
· Strategic planning for arts, cultural and creative industries organisations
· PEST Analysis, SWOT Analysis, and other strategic planning tools
· Staffing, resourcing and financing for arts, cultural and creative industries organisations
· Legislation impacting on arts, cultural and creative industries organisations
· Copyright, moral rights and intellectual property issues for arts, cultural and creative industries organisations

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

This unit will be delivered through lectures, guest lectures and tutorials. In general, the time will be split between lectures, discussion of topics raised in the lectures, learning tasks, and consideration of case studies exemplifying effective arts management practices. The classroom contact will be complemented by online resources, available through the unit's Blackboard site.

Assessment

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information see the Blackboard site for this unit.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Assessment items will have a formative component - feedback on progress to date - as a part of preparation for summative work. Weight 0%

Assessment name: Examination
Description: For Assessment 1, you will complete a short online Examination. You will answer several short form questions on appropriate organisational structures and strategies for arts, cultural and creative industries organisations. You will then answer a long form question which asks you to provide an analysis of an arts, cultural or creative industries organisation, including the organisation's role, management, and strategies for delivering its products, programs and services. Your answers will be based on what you have learned in KTP409 Arts and Cultural Management so far, and your understanding of appropriate organisational structures and strategies for arts, cultural and creative industries organisations.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 5
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid Semester

Assessment name: Professional Plans
Description: For Assessment 2, you will develop a structure, and a strategic plan, for a new or non-existant arts, cultural or creative industries organisation, including vision, mission, values and objectives, a SWOT analysis, a set of strategic initiatives and action points, and a plan to implement these action points.
Relates to objectives: 1 - 5
Weight: 60%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End Semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Required Text
The KTP409 Arts & Cultural Management Reader can be downloaded from the unit's Blackboard site, or purchased from the Bookshop.

Recommended Texts
Byrnes, William J. (2003) Management and the Arts, Boston: Focal Press.
Radbourne, J and Fraser, M. (1996) Arts Management - a practical guide, Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
Stevenson, D. (2000) Art and Organisation: Making Australian Cultural Policy, St Lucia, UQP.
J. Pick and M. Anderson (1995) Arts Administration (2nd Ed.) London: E & F.N. Spon.
Rentschler, R. (ed.) (1998), Shaping Culture: Arts and Entertainment Management, Geelong, Vic: Deakin University Press.
Rentschler, R. (2002), The Entrepreneurial Arts Leader, St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press.
Chong, D. (2002) Arts management, London: Routledge.
Fitzgibbon, M & Kelly, A. (eds.) (1997) From Maestro to Manager: Critical Issues in Art and Culture Management, Dublin, Oak Tree Press.

Risk assessment statement

There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 04-Oct-2012