Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Arts Management (687AA) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

Open to domestic applicants of all cultural and professional backgrounds, the course is designed to facilitate empowerment and self-determination amongst visual and performing artists, arts workers, cultural managers and community leaders seeking to manage, market and protect Indigenous products in local, national and international contexts.

Generic skills

At the completion of the course students should be able to:

• exhibit extensive theoretical and practical knowledge of their discipline including relevant professional knowledge, skills, discipline and ethics as they relate to a practising visual/performing artist;
• demonstrate capacities for artistic imagination, creativity, transformation and interpretation;
• demonstrate practical skills in respect of critical analysis, problem solving, report writing, team work and oral and written communication;
• emonstrate a flexible and innovative approach to the national and international challenges for the professional visual/performing artist in the 21st century;
• work at various levels, both as an individual and as a team member, in a wide variety of visual/performing artistic environments;
• contribute to a range of visual/performing arts environments as artistic collaborators and leaders;
• demonstrate an open, independent and inquiring attitude towards contemporary cultural developments and new ideas;
• critically and creatively engage with topics of cultural significance across communities;
• understand and appreciate how the visual and performing arts connect with the broader society and contribute to its social and economic development;
• understand their relationship with and responsibility to their cultural environment and society.

Graduate attributes