Graduate Diploma in Arts and Cultural Management (Advanced)

The Graduate Diploma in Arts and Cultural Management (Advanced) aims to prepare graduates to work in a diversity of arts industry environments, ranging from large organisations and government departments to self-employment in the arts, by developing in graduate students an understanding and appreciation of the arts, and the range of skills necessary to manage cultural resources, both human and material.

Learn to communicate and negotiate the priorities of art materials with a range of people and organisations, including arts organisations, artists, government administrators, funding bodies, professional organisations and unions. Use your knowledge to plan, coordinate, make decisions, solve problems, and manage human and physical resources.

Who is it for?

If you want to demonstrate a sense of commitment and responsibility to artists and the advancement and preservation of culture within the broader community, the Graduate Diploma in Arts and Cultural Management (Advanced) will give you the skill set to function as an accountable and highly skilled worker in the arts industry.

English language requirements

All applicants to the University of Melbourne must satisfy the English language requirements. This may be achieved in a number of ways, including recognised previous study taught and assessed entirely in English or an approved English language test. If you are from a non-English speaking background, the required standard of English for this degree is one of the following English proficiency test scores:

• English language test score requirements

• If you need to undertake an English language test, you must meet one of the scores* below:

  IELTS

  6.5

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  with no band less than 6.0

  TOEFL

  79+

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  with writing 21; speaking 18; reading 13; listening 13

  PEARSON

  64+

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  with no communicative skill below 60

  CAMBRIDGE

  176+

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  with no skill less than 169

  *Accepted tests: IELTS (Academic English Only); TOEFL Internet-based test; Pearson Test of English Academic; Cambridge English: Advanced/Certificate of Advanced English (CAE). If a test displays N/A, it means it is not accepted for this course.

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