C04239v1 Master of Management

Overview

This course provides students with an opportunity to develop skills and knowledge leading to a career in the ever-expanding experience economy and its key sectors. The core of the Master of Management has been designed to provide a business underpinning to a series of industry sector focused majors in arts, events, sport and tourism. In practical terms the course recognises and embraces the general notion that professionals in this new economy need to understand and plan for the experience rendered to their clients. The majors allow students to specialise and to develop a depth of understanding of management issues, challenges and approaches within a particular sector of the experience economy.

The Master of Management and its four industry-focused majors provide a unique suite of offerings at the postgraduate level. Sydney is the largest tourist gateway in Australia, accounting for more than two-thirds of international tourists, a major sporting hub, the home of Australia's hallmark arts companies, and an international events destination. UTS is consequently in a unique position to capitalise and position itself within the growing experience economy with this course and its associated majors.

The course provides a combination of intellectual rigour with the development of a range of significant general management skills. Coupled with these is a strong practical orientation to the specialist industry sectors associated with its majors. The School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism maintains strong connections with its industry sectors and the course provides students with opportunities to gain exposure to and experience within their specialist industry sector.

The graduate student body in the school is culturally diverse. Both domestic and international students come from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Class engagement and participation recognises and embraces this diversity. A number of the school's staff have experience in international teaching in China, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and Europe, and are thus able to bring a more global perspective to the international environment in which they engage.

Taken together, the well-developed industry-focus of the course, the strong connections to the Sydney market, the opportunities for professional engagement, coupled with a global outlook in classroom interactions, are all significant markers of this program. As such, they support and strengthen the UTS brand of practice orientation, industry relevance and outward looking in orientation.

Course aims

The aim of the course is to prepare forward thinking, work ready graduates with the business, management and interpersonal skills to function effectively as a professional within their selected industry sector of the arts, events, tourism or sport.

Career options

The course provides for a wide range of career opportunities within each of the four industry sectors linked to its specialist majors.

In Arts Management, graduates may pursue careers in such fields as:

• cultural policy
• marketing performing arts
• cultural venue management
• arts and cultural development management
• gallery and museum management
• dance, theatre and popular music.

In Event Management, graduates may pursue careers in such fields as:

• event planning and development
• conference management
• event marketing
• exhibition management
• corporate event management
• festival and special event management
• place management.

In Sport Management, graduates may pursue careers in such fields as:

• sport marketing sport event management
• venue and facility management
• sports development
• sports administration
• operations management.

In Tourism Management, graduates may pursue careers in such fields as:

• tourist attraction management
• tour wholesaling and operations
• tourism marketing
• tourism research
• tourism planning and development
• hotel development, marketing and management
• airline and transportation management
• ecotourism operations and management.

Admission requirements

Applicants require one of the following:

• a degree from a UTS-recognised university or other tertiary education institution
• a relevant graduate diploma from UTS or a UTS-recognised tertiary education institution, or
• a relevant graduate certificate from UTS or a UTS-recognised tertiary education institution, with at least a credit average

Recognition of prior learning

Students may be granted a maximum of eight subject exemptions, of which four compulsory subjects may be approved from prior undergraduate study. Compulsory subjects, in this context, include core subjects plus the required subjects to complete a specific major.

Course duration and attendance

The Master of Management is a one-and-half-year, full-time, or three-year, part-time course.

Course structure

The course comprises 72 credit points, made up of five core subjects (30 credit points) and seven (42 credit points) elective subjects comprising a major in either tourism, arts, sport or events. Within each major there are five compulsory subjects that must be completed for a student to be credited with that major. The remaining two elective subjects may be selected from subjects offered in other majors, or students may elect to do an industry-based research project or professional internship placement.

Course completion requirements

Course program

The list of core subjects and electives is provided below.

Articulation with UTS courses

Other information

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