The following objectives are central to the Master's in Cultural Management.
1. The master has insight into the current scientific knowledge in the field of cultural management, understands its relevance within a cultural organization and can apply it where necessary.
2. The master is able to critically select, process and synthesize sources and scientific literature on a specific management issue in a systematic manner.
3. Based on an open and critical attitude, the master can scientifically detect and analyze complex problems of cultural management and creatively provide solutions from an interdisciplinary framework.
4. The Master can actively respond to social and cultural developments (interculturality, ageing,...) and can assess a situation and/or make decisions in an uncertain local or international context with an eye for creativity and originality.
5. The master masters the methodology of management research and can use it independently in management issues from the cultural sector (such as participation research, audience research and performance analysis).
6. The master is able to use and apply his/her own knowledge in a well-founded, synthetic and independent manner when preparing, taking and following up management and policy decisions in the cultural sector.
7. The master is able to work efficiently and effectively in a team, to display entrepreneurship and to actively use those skills in a network.
8. The master is able to evaluate his own analysis of and solutions to problems and to communicate in a creative and inspiring way with colleagues and laymen and thereby inspire.
9. The master is able to critically examine the institutional and policy context of culture and to take this into account when analyzing a management problem and proposing solutions.
10. The master is able to reflect critically and ethically on culture and society, based on cultural-sociological and philosophical insights, and has an eye for the diversity of cultural expressions in a local and international environment.
11. The master can reflect on his own thinking and working and is able to translate those reflections into constructive activities and to propose more adequate solutions.
