Master
Cultural Education & Cultural Management

The Master's degree programme "Cultural Education & Cultural Management" is unique in its kind in the Federal Republic of Germany. Our interdisciplinary approach combines the fields of education and management at a high academic level. With a view to social and institutional change, after completing your studies you will be excellently positioned for the diverse management and mediation tasks in the cultural, media and educational landscape.

We provide you with basic legal knowledge and the application of marketing tools. This will enable you to find your way in a demanding field of work and position yourself successfully during your studies.

If you are enthusiastic about the analysis of social theory, cultural studies and institutional discourses, are interested in dealing with management methods and target group research, and enjoy designing your own cultural projects for children, young people or adults, then the practical emphasis / orientation Master's degree programme in Cultural Education & Cultural Management is just right for you.

The Master's degree programme involves full-time studies over four semesters, including the master's thesis. In addition to attending face-to-face classes of approx. 20 hours per week, a similar amount of self-organised learning is expected. The degree programme was redeveloped and reaccredited in 2020.

• Degree // Master of Arts (M.A.)
• Type of degree programme // Full-time
• Standard time to degree (in semesters) // 4 semesters
• Scope of study // 120 ECTS
• Place of study // Mönchengladbach campus
• Costs per semester // approx. 360.00 € incl. NRW Ticket (as of 04/24)
• Language of instruction // German

The interdisciplinary degree programme forms the foundation course for a wide range of career opportunities, with students defining their own specialisations during the course of their studies. This opens up a wide range of career opportunities for our graduates in art, music, theatre or museum education, in management positions, in cultural administration, in media education, in cultural institutions, in child and youth work or in family and adult education. Make the most of your career opportunities. The degree programme qualifies you for the following fields of work:

• Cultural institutions
• Educational institutions
• Cultural and youth welfare offices
• Foundations
• Association work
• Academia
• Commercial enterprises
• Non-governmental organisations
• Cultural Entrepreneurship

The Cultural Education and Cultural Management degree programme is characterised by a close link between theory and practice. The Master's degree programme enables you to take on conceptual, planning and mediating tasks in public, non-profit or private institutions as well as in companies.

With a view to the specific requirements of cultural organisations, the studies will enable you to take on central tasks in the field of marketing and mediation in the context of national and international discourses. Within the framework of organisational and management activities, you will open up scope for action for culture and secure its factual and financial framework conditions. Basic legal knowledge and application skills round off the professional qualification profile of the Master's programme.

Students gain an advanced course in cultural education as a sub-discipline of educational science, familiarise themselves with philosophical, political and cultural science theories and learn about scientific approaches to cultural research as well as educational and cultural policy concepts.

You will gain valuable insights for your future career during your studies through a clever combination of theory and practice. Our project assignments take into account both socially relevant issues and the specific requirements of the labour market for future cultural educators and cultural managers. Under practically oriented studies, you will acquire skills in conceptual, organisational and public relations work, curating and cultural research. Our theory-practice combination includes the following project types:

Researching:
You will gain a basic insight into common methods of empirical social research and learn how to interpret statistical findings competently.

Analysing:
You will deepen your knowledge of target group research, taking into account social, cultural and mediating contexts. You will also acquire the necessary historical and political knowledge to be able to categorise the structures of a post-migrant society.

Implementing:
By independently planning and implementing a cultural project, you will gain valuable skills to position yourself successfully on the labour market.

Curating:
The task of curating is also becoming increasingly important in view of digitalisation. You will learn to critically question the structures and dynamics of contemporary society as well as observations of globalisation processes

The Cultural Education and Cultural Management degree programme places particular emphasis on the connection to practice and the close exchange between teaching education and experts from the relevant professional fields. For this reason, numerous excursions and meetings with cooperation partners take place. With the
forums ► Politics-Culture-Education and ► Postmigrant Perspectives, the faculty enables students to engage in a lively exchange and provides vivid insights into current debates and social discourses.

The Graduate Institute NRW (GI NRW) is a joint scientific institution of the 16 state and four state-funded universities of applied sciences and the University of Applied Sciences and the University of Public Administration NRW. The institute is mandated by higher education legislation to sustainably strengthen and expand cooperative doctoral programmes between universities of applied sciences and universities.

The Hochschule Niederrhein's Faculty of Applied Social Sciences is a cooperation partner of the GI NRW and encourages its graduates to complete a doctorate as part of a cooperation between our faculty and a university.

The Faculty of Applied Social Sciences is currently represented in the GI NRW's Social and Health Section by Professor Dr Michael Borg-Laufs. He is the faculty's first contact for GI doctoral co-operation.

Contact at the faculties
michael.borg-laufs@hs-niederrhein.de