Creative Events Management BA(Hons) Degree

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Port Eliot Festival

This course will give you the skills to manage creative events such as music festivals, touring performances, and multi art-form celebrations, and develop creative approaches to conferences and product launches.

Fashion Show

Working alongside other courses, you'll design and deliver creative events, including our annual graduate fashion show.

Truro City of Lights

You'll develop project management skills along with an understanding of the workings of the arts and cultural sectors. Particular emphasis is placed on managing complexity, diversity and uncertainty.

Latest news

Music students from University College Falmouth to play at the Royal Albert Hall
A band made up of thirteen students from across the Music degree programme will be playing at The Royal Albert Hall, London on Monday 7 November following gigs at regional and national showcases run by Music for Youth.
The autumn Contemporary Performance programme launches

The Performance Centre is delighted to announce the autumn programme of Contemporary Performance. Following the launch of the £19 million building last autumn this year's programme has grown significantly and offers the opportunity to see performances that might otherwise be rarely shown in the county.
Class of 2011

UCF proudly recognises the achievements of 700 graduates, along with special recognition for the extraordinary work of; Lady Mary Holborow DCVO, Tom Henderson OBE, Peter Hodgson CBE DL, Peter Kosminsky, John Simmons, Bonnie Dean and Karen Christopher.
A wave of honey arrives in Falmouth with generous gamelan donation

University College Falmouth has received a Javanese gamelan, a percussion ensemble generously donated by David Ruffer, director of music at Bournemouth School on behalf of The Hastings Gamelan Society. The Gamelan is a percussion ensemble named Alun Madu (A Wave of Honey).
Professor of Theatre directs and presents at World Shakespeare Congress

Professor David Peimer, Professor of Theatre is directing his performance, Shylock's Ghosts and presenting academic papers at the 9th World Shakespeare Congress in Prague on Monday 18 July. His group is the only one to have been invited to both perform and present during the event.
Music students' band wins notable awards at National Festival

A first year band formed from students across the three Music degrees at University College Falmouth have won two awards at the Music for Youth National Festival. The band, called The Klezbians now have the opportunity to be chosen to perform at The Royal Albert Hall in the middle of the BBC Proms season.
Cornwall hots up for a summer season of graduate exhibitions & shows

University College Falmouth Summer Festival, sponsored by the Leadbitter Group, proudly presents this year's crop of talented graduating students from five leading disciplines across our two schools of Art & Design and Media & Performance.

Latest events

Gob Squad present Performance Lecture and Live Long and Prosper
'Thu, Feb 16th, 2012, 7:30pm to 9:00pm'
A rare chance to get to know the inner workings of this collective of UK and German artists with a double bill of performance lecture and screening.
Lyric and Polis: A symposium of poetry and poetics curated by Marianne Morris
'Sat, Feb 18th, 2012, 9:00am to 7:30pm' Lyric and Polis: A symposium of poetry and poetics curated by Marianne Morris
The Wiyos
'Tue, Feb 21st, 2012, 7:30pm to 9:30pm' Live music performance from The Wiyos

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UCAS Code N820 BA/CEM

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A minimum of 220 UCAS points, equivalent Level 3 qualifications or relevant experience. Applicants may be invited to attend an interview and will be expected to show an interest/engagement in the creative arts sector and an appreciation of the range of literacy and numeracy skills required for Creative Events Management.

Location:Tremough Campus
Length:3 years full-time

Direct line:01326 255764

admissions@falmouth.ac.uk

Falmouth's Creative Events Management course aims to develop entrepreneurial event managers for whom there is no such thing as standard; who will draw on all their ideas, experience and resources to make extraordinary events happen. Claire Eason Bassett, Director of Event Cornwall

Why study for a BA(Hons) Creative Events Management degree at University College Falmouth?

Recognition of entrepreneurship is at the heart of our Creative Events Management course as we steer away from a conventional business school approach. We teach the skills required for the production of creative events in such a way that you'll add value in society, the community and in public organisations.

Our BA(Hons) Creative Events Management course will enable you to manage creative events such as music festivals, touring performances and multi art-form celebrations as well as developing creative approaches to more business-focused events such as conferences and product launches.

Course outline

Level 1

Cultural Management
Understanding Cultural Organisations
Introduction to Resource Planning
Marketing
Professional & Practical Engagement

Level 2

Critical & Cultural Appreciation
Resource Planning
Professional Studies
Collaborative Planning Project

Level 3

Cultural Contexts
Professional Studies
Live Cultural Event Project

Tell me more about the BA(Hons) Creative Events Management course

This course is well situated at Falmouth as it brings together business acumen, entrepreneurship, innovation and partnership firmly grounded within the creative mindset for which the University College is renowned. Working alongside other courses, you'll design and deliver events across both our campuses and beyond.

The curriculum will develop a holistic view of all the components needed to create and sustain organisations within the creative industries by developing project management skills along with an understanding of the workings of the arts and cultural sectors. Particular emphasis will be placed on managing complexity, uncertainty and diversity.

Students accepted onto the course will bring ambition tempered with sense, awareness, skill and the ability to listen to and work in partnership with others. The course will provide you with the opportunity for experiential learning and engagement within a community of practice by ensuring links with locally and nationally recognised creative and media industries.

By choosing to study for a degree in Creative Arts Management at Falmouth you will:

Benefit from being taught by a friendly and approachable staff who are experts in their respective fields.
Develop a diverse range of skills via a combination of visual, verbal and written assignments.
Work on a series of live briefs including a live cultural event project in your final year.
Benefit from visiting speakers, including industry experts, whose contributions will help you develop well-informed professional practices.
Have the opportunity to work collaboratively with other courses as you design and deliver events across campus and beyond.
Be based at the stunning Tremough Campus, which boasts industry standard facilities.

How is the course taught?

During the course, project work will supported by lectures, seminars, workshops, professional experience and tutorials. There'll be a series of live briefs, informed by the contribution of visiting speakers, ensuring you develop well informed professional practices.

Operating on a basis of continuous assessment with no formal examinations, you'll be measured using a combination of visual, verbal and written assignments, including a live cultural event project in your final year. You'll develop peer and self-evaluation skills, which will be used in critical, conceptual, productive and professional capacities.

Assessment

Coursework and portfolio
Dissertation or final year project

Facilities

Our learning Resource Centres and IT facilities boast:

140,000 books
7,000 DVD/ video titles
Radio archives, slides, pictures, maps and archive collections
Over 400 journal titles

Professorial lecture series

Falmouth's Professorial lecture series aims to produce an engaging and challenging public programme that stimulates the intellectual curiosity of our staff, students and alumni, our research collaborators, our industry partners, our local communities and other supporters.

Answers and advice about the course

If you have any queries about the course please visit our HelpMe Forum

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For further information about BA(Hons) Creative Events Management at University College Falmouth, please email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 255764.

Career opportunities

We expect graduates of BA(Hons) Creative Events Management to find employment within the creative industries, universities, charities, PR and marketing, or any type of employment requiring effective communication, presentation and project management skills.

Entry requirements

A minimum of 220 UCAS points, equivalent Level 3 qualifications or relevant experience. Applicants may be invited to attend an interview and will be expected to show an interest/engagement in the creative arts sector and an appreciation of the range of literacy and numeracy skills required for Creative Events Management.

Please see our How to Apply page for more information.