EDUCATION ON CULTURAL MANAGEMENT AT THE UB

The Official Master’s in Cultural Management, of 90 ECTS credits, forms part of the Cultural Management Program of the University of Barcelona. This master’s designed to form qualified professionals in cultural management, administration and mediation with the skills to work in high responsibility job placements within the public and private sectors, both in wide-ranging projects and the various cultural subsectors: audiovisual, print, performing arts, music, heritage or visual arts among others. On the other hand, the course also has a specific program in formation of researchers in cultural management and policies that can lead to the PhD Program in Cultural and Heritage Management .

The degree obtained at the end of the program is: Master´s in Cultural Management.

The University of Barcelona also provides the following UB-specific degrees of continuous and professional education (part-time programs) in the field of the cultural management: (see www.ub.edu/cultural )

• Master's in Cultural Institutions and Business Management (60 ECTS, face to face and distance education format. Language: Spanish), at the end of the first year a Postgraduate diploma is obtained.

• Postgraduate Diploma in International Cooperation and Cultural Management (30 ECTS, blended version. Language: English and Spanish)

• Postgraduate Diploma in Show and Events Production and Management (30 ECTS, face to face format. Language: Catalan)

• Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Tourism (30 ECTS, blended version. Language: Spanish)

• Master's in World Heritage and cultural projects for development (60 ECTS, blended evrsion. Language: Spanish)
  

The teaching and research experience of the University of Barcelona in the field of cultural management started in 1989, which has allowed the creation of an elaborate educational curriculum, fully recognized at an international scale. A great effort is put into structuring program contents, collecting experiences and documentation, developing simulations exercises and didactic methods to stimulate intellectual curiosity and common sense. The goal of this collective work is to obtain a quality education program to incorporate competent professionals to the centre of the various institutions, projects, centres and cultural services.

During the 2012-2013 academic year, the Masters is in an evaluation process by the “Agencia de Calidad Universitaria” (University Quality Agency). This process, which is done every six years, ensures the quality of official university teachings and it allows the updating the education program to adapt it to current challenges. For this reason, in the Master´s Structure section, the lectures that are going to come into effect for the 2013-2014 academic year will be described, but until their final approval the lectures in the master’s curriculum correspond to the 2012-2013 academic year.

The master is taught mostly in Catalan, but many of the lectures are taught in Spanish or English (see teaching plan).

STUDENT PROFILE

The action framework of the cultural manager is conditioned by the reality of the culture and its institutions in a particular territory and sector, and is especially dependent on the grade of government intervention (direct or indirect) in cultural organizations, the development of private entrepreneurship, the scale of the cultural projects and the existent networks in and outside of the organizations.

As an answer to those challenges, the Official Master´s in Cultural Management leads to the following professional careers:

• Manager, technical or service manager, public amenities and cultural projects, public or private.

• Programmer and/or producer of cultural events (artistic, heritage, cultural tourism…).

• Territorial cultural manager.

• Programmer and promoter of intercultural dynamics and sociocultural activities.

Watch the video “El perfil del Gestor Cultural en el siglo XXI” by Lluís Bonet: