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Dartington College of Arts
Totnes
Devon TQ9 6EJ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1803 861638
Fax: +44 1803 866053
E-mail: t.warr@dartington.ac.uk
Web site: www.dartington.ac.uk
Background, orientation and purpose
Profiles: United Kingdom
Dartington College of Arts, founded in 1961, is a university sector college specialising in contemporary
performance arts and arts management. Its mission is to be at the centre of education, research and
development in contemporary performance arts and to provide opportunities for creative contributions
within a changing world. Arts Management at Dartington is arts management for artists.
Programme(s) and qualification(s)
BA (Hons) in Arts Management with specialisation in:
Music/Music (performance)/Music (composition)/ Performance Writing/Visual Performance/Theatre.
MA in Arts Management.
MPhil, PhD in Arts Management.
Duration
BA (Hons) in Arts Management - 3 years (full-time).
MA in Arts Management - 1 year (full-time)/2 years (part-time).
MPhil, PhD by research.
Content
BA (Hons) in Arts Management:
- legal, financial and marketing aspects of performance (10 credits);
- management of self and others (10 credits);
- introduction to cultural policy (10 credits);
- politics and practicalities of fundraising (10 credits);
- two arts management modules (20 credits each), for a performance arts subject WITH arts
management degree: cultural policy in practice; arts management in practice; in addition, contextual
enquiry project (off-campus work) (20 or 40 credits) and written research project (20 or 40 credits)
for an arts management WITH performance arts subject degree; and
- electives.
MA in Arts Management:
- diagnostics and methodologies (20 credits);
- questions of practice (20 credits);
- cultural policy (20 credits); and
- dissertation and practice totalling 120 credits.
International/European dimension
The institution is a member of ENCATC.
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