Art and Cultural Management

Common studies will provide you with the readiness for studying, operating in working life and proactive development. Ethics, internationality and cultural diversity will create the foundation for community work and developing a professional background.  

In cultural management studies, your learning path goes from learner to master and further to developer.

The programme enables you to delve into the important skills required in the field, such as project management, innovation and communication, in a diverse and practical way. You will also learn about entrepreneurship, productisation and the principles of financing in the creative sector.

There are two specialisation options: Management of Creative Content and Service Management and Mediation. With elective studies, you can flexibly orient your skills in the direction you want. You can also obtain credits for your own projects, cultural work or volunteering outside of your studies.

Part of Kuopio’s online degree studies are tied to the development of the communal neighbourhood of Savilahti. In this way, you can become part of a developing community already during your studies and gain experience in the development of multidisciplinary urban culture and events. 

During your studies, you will have the opportunity to perform five traineeships in different organisations and companies in the cultural sector. You will find the traineeship positions yourself, according to your own interests. Traineeships will deepen your practical skills and play an important role in your development from student to professional. By means of traineeships, you will create networks in working life already during your studies and gain valuable contacts with actors in the sector. The networks and work experience gained through traineeships often play an important role in employment. 

Kuopion verkkototeutuksessa voit hyödyntää Savilahden yhteisöä myös harjoittelupaikkoinasi.

In addition to internships, projects and cooperation with working life are an important means of networking and learning in your studies. They also offer you a genuine working life environment in which to learn while also delving into the concrete development of the sector. Right from the beginning of your studies, you will carry out working life projects directly with organisations in the sector during, for example, marketing, service design, strategic planning and digital production courses. The studies also include visiting and getting to know actors in the cultural sector, lectures by experts in the field as part of the teaching and real assignments from industry organisations related to the course assignments. The cultural management lecturers are widely networked and active in the field, allowing you to become familiar with current themes and examples in the sector during the programme.

At Humak, the RPL, i.e. Recognition of Prior Learning process, means in practice that a student can make use of their prior expertise to advance their studies. This expertise can come from work experience, prior studies or, for example, hobbies and volunteer work, if they are related to the goals of the studies. Approved skills are entered into the study register, which can compensate for a course partially or entirely. Your personal coach is responsible for the RPL procedure.

We also offer you the opportunity to complete courses as summer studies