Arts and Culture Studies

specialisatie Arts, Culture and Society

The master Art, Culture and Society prepares you for a vital role in all areas of the arts and culture sector, allowing you to take your degree not only across artistic fields, but around the globe.

In the Master's programme Arts, Culture and Society we teach you the skills to advise and become part of cultural organisations. After graduation, you will be the expert to turn to for knowledge about cultural marketing, or for a better understanding of the audience's tastes and motivations.

Arts, Culture and Society offers a unique approach that integrates present-day modes of production, distribution and consumption of arts and culture beyond and across national cultural boundaries. You are trained to envision new possibilities and establish new models for the organisation of arts and culture, using cutting-edge insights in policy, marketing, audiences and education.

specialisatie Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship

Uncover the business of culture: get the art facts. How to tell the worth of an oeuvre? How do cultural entrepreneurs operate in the culture market? It's all about Cultural economics.

The cultural and creative sectors face constant challenges. Our students acquire the knowledge and skills to identify and and overcome them. The specific approach of this Master that dives into Cultural economics and entrepreneurship has various advantages.

• It helps students to use both a macro and a micro approach. The first, allows to identify the features of the context where a specific cultural organisation operates. The second to recognise the best tools and activities to undertake.
• The cultural sector is increasingly addressed in terms of financial and economic considerations. Our students will train to argue convincingly in this framework and to challenge preconceived ideas.
• The cultural sector reveals fundamental challenges in mainstream economics, and we address alternative approaches.
• Careful application of economic theory and empirical research are powerful tools for making reasonable predictions about further developments in the context of digitization and changes in public policy.
• Our students learn about the challenges and opportunities that cultural entrepreneurs face.

specialisatie Tourism, Culture and Society

Study the complex interplay between tourism, culture and society, in an era of mobility and globalization.

The tourism sector has grown into one of the most important industries in today's world economy. The field has become more and more diverse, as a result of globalization and digitization. This calls for new professionals in culture and tourism, who possess the knowledge and skills to anticipate and understand the global dynamics between societies, cultures, media and tourism.

In this programme, you will study tourism from many perspectives, such as sociology, cultural economics, media studies and cultural studies. What motivates people to travel to destinations they know from films or novels? How can we disclose cultural heritage sites to the public in an environmentally friendly way? And which challenges and opportunities do tourist practices pose for indigenous communities?