We are currently recruiting internationally for our 12th annual eleven month Master's degree course (to run from September 1998 - August 1999 inclusive) in museum, gallery, visual arts and heritage management. An extract of the course details follows: The City University (London) MA in Museum and Gallery Management is intended for established professionals, managers and administrators in museums, galleries, the visual arts or heritage services, who want to develop their management abilities and critical judgement in the context of museum and gallery policy and management. In addition, each year we also aim to admit a small number of well-established professionals wishing to transfer their established professional skills and qualifications to the cultural sector. Over recent years qualified and experienced accountants, architects, lawyers and practising visual artists and craftspeople have all successfully followed the course, along with professionals from all levels of the museum and gallery sector, including curators, education officers, registrars and conservators, the educational system - from primary school teachers to higher education lecturers, and from senior levels of education authority administration, as well as established professionals in design, the art trade and auction houses, marketing and public relations. The course is not intended for final year undergraduates, or indeed for recent graduates (except of course for mature students with relevant experience prior to their university course), nor is it a course in practical curatorship (in the sense of the direct care for and research on collections) nor in scientific conservation. Those without relevant experience are advised to seek an appropriate pre-entry postgraduate course in e.g. Museum Studies elsewhere, and to apply for the MA in Museum and Gallery Management several years' later. (We offer a "fast track" option - see below - for those who come to the course already holding the Museums Association's Associateship following a Postgraduate Diploma or MA in Museum Studies elsewhere.) The aim, therefore, of this unique course is to serve those whose major interests are in working either immediately, or in the near future, at the policy-making and implementation levels in galleries, museums or similar organisations, or in the growing range of managerial and administrative positions within the sector. Recent graduate of the course are now working at museum director level within general museums, as heads of departments in national, local and independent museums, in areas such as finance, general administration, human resources management, facilities and services management, marketing, development and membership, and in national and regional arts and museums organisations. The course is concerned with the management of galleries and museums as public services, commercial enterprises, or a combination of the two. It raises questions of purpose, function and value as well as scrutinising management techniques and modern developments in government and management thinking about museums and galleries. Within the course the student is encouraged to chose his or her own "pathway" through the wide range of alternatives. Some concentrate of options that focus on policy issues, others on management techniques and skills, yet others on the more practically orientated options. An openness to debate and a willingness to question received notions is essential in a course which aims to combine the theoretical and the practical. In recognition of the special needs of those seeking to develop a career in the visual arts, the module Managing the Visual Arts may be taken as an alternative compulsory module to Museum and Gallery Management, (see below). Course content and structure Full-time students take four modules over thee terms including a least two compulsory modules. A dissertation of 15,000 words must be completed by 1 September making a total of 11 months of study. Part-time students complete the modules over four terms and spend a further two terms on their dissertation. This course may also be studied on a modular basis over a period of up to four years. For further details see our Web site: http://www.city.ac.uk/artspol/ or e-mail: [log in to unmask] for a brochure and application details. Patrick J. Boylan (Professor of Arts Policy and Management) City University, Frobisher Crescent, Barbican, London EC2Y 8HB, UK; phone: +44-171-477.8750, fax:+44-171-477.8887; e-mail: [log in to unmask] World Wide Web site: http://www.city.ac.uk/artspol/