Master of Arts (MA) in Cultural Production & Cultural Policy | CPP
Friedrichshafen, Germany
DURATION
4 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
EUR 6,150 / per semester
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
This interdisciplinary English-language Master's degree program in Cultural Production & Cultural Policy qualifies students for programmatic, research-based, artistic, and curatorial work in the cultural sector. In times of violent geopolitical upheavals and crises of planetary proportions, cultural work in highly heterogeneous societies means creating spaces and infrastructures for cross-cultural dialog. A particular focus of the Master's program is therefore on the analysis and design of transformation processes and international cooperation.
Anyone who plans transdisciplinary cultural events curates exhibitions, directs festivals, and develops concert programs or cultural policy program lines for regions and institutions today not only needs artistic sensorium and management skills but also a sense of social and political responsibility as well as the communicative ability to coordinate participation processes.
Profile of the CPP Master's Degree Program
The CPP Master's program trains its students in artistically sophisticated, integrative, and theoretically sound cultural work that is committed to a democratic civil society and a decolonial perspective. It prepares students to deal competently with digital and heterogeneous public spheres and is based on a post-heroic understanding of management, for which communication and relational leadership are central.
The Master's program qualifies students to work as responsible experts, program developers, researchers, and potential change agents in the cultural sector.
Focus of the CPP Master's Degree Program
The Master's program allows students to set interdisciplinary priorities and carry out their own projects - depending on their individual research and work interests. The program focuses on
- Curatorial programming in the arts
- International cultural work in the context of festivals, theaters, museums, galleries, concerts, socio-cultural institutions, and in the independent scene
- National and international cultural policy Strategy and management processes
- As well as the organizational development of cultural institutions.
What Makes the CPP Master's Program So Special?
In the program, renowned lecturers and students jointly explore, develop, and examine innovative cultural formats. The Master's combines project-based courses, in which students conduct field research and curate their own events, with sophisticated theoretical work and empirical research.
In teaching and in the university arts program students meet internationally renowned artists, curators, festival directors, and experts from the cultural sector. The program cooperates with innovative partner institutions around Lake Constance and abroad in teaching research projects.
At the Centre for Cultural Production, outstanding research on the subject of cultural production and cultural policy is brought together.
Together with the head of the arts program, students curate events and their own internationally oriented festivals (e.g. SEEKULT) as part of their studies. The award-winning campus architecture has its own exhibition space, the White Box, and a range of attractive event rooms, workshops, and media labs.
In this environment, students are enabled to develop innovative forms of planning, organization, and curatorial programming and to help shape cultural policy strategies and funding structures. The Master's offers comprehensive theoretical and analytical thinking tools for this so that graduates are able to think and act in terms of art, cultural management, and cultural policy in equal measure.
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Curriculum
Mandatory Modules
Semester 1 -2
Modules with 48 - 60 ECTS credits
- Project & Field Studies
- Creativity & Performativity
- Cultural Policy
- Cultural Organization
Theories for Social Change (2 of 4)
- Cultural Theories & Postcolonial Studies
- World Society (Differentiation and Integration)
- Digital Public Sphere
- Diversity and Change Management
Methods
- Interdisciplinary Methods
- Advanced Methods (2 or 4 workshops)
Elective Modules
- Public Management
- Law in the Media & Cultural Sector
- HR Management
Elective Modules
Semesters 2-3
Modules amounting to 36-48 ECTS of which Open Content elective modules may amount to a maximum of 18 ECTS
Field of Expertise "Programming & Curating"
- Making of Art in Society
- Theory & History of Curating
- Curatorial Practice
Field of Expertise "Cultural Organization, Cultural Economy, & New Publics"
- International Cultural Relations
- Audience Studies
- Current Markets for the Arts & Digital Culture
Field of Expertise "Arts, Politics & Social Change"
- Analysis of Arts, Politics & Activism
- Understanding (Planetary) Futures
- Digitalization & Social Transformation
- Science, Fiction & Society
Cross-sectional Modules
- Independent Project in Media, Culture & Entrepreneurship
- Selected Topics I – III
Open Content Elective Modules
- Multidisciplinary Modules
- Elinor Ostrom Research Project
Master Phase
Semester 4 | amounting to 24 ECTS
Final Module
- Master's thesis
- Disputation
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
- Expert, leader, and transformation agent in the field of local, national, and international cultural work
- Curatorial program designer in the arts
- Those responsible for international cultural cooperation to shape socio-political transformations and challenges
- Managers in cultural organizations (e.g. in the arts, music, and theater, cultural policy and cultural administration, foundations, the independent scene, international cultural cooperation, publishing), consultants for cultural and process management, for the transition to independence and for the founding of cultural organizations and start-ups