Arts University Bournemouth
UCAS Code: WN12 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Higher
Scottish Highers – five passes at Grade C or above
T Level
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About this course
**AUB event managers are also experience architects.**
On BA (Hons) Events Management, you'll harness your creativity to design, develop and deliver unique experiences that enable you to stand out from the crowd and ensure that you thrive in the fast-growing festivals and events industry. The world of events and festivals is full of well-organised project managers. However, the most successful Event Managers are those that can also design experiences. Focusing on that blend of project management and design skill is what makes studying Events Management at Arts University Bournemouth unique among event management courses. This course will provide you with the skills that you need to become not only the experienced manager that is at the heart of every event but an experience architect, a designer of time.
The ultimate creative process is to conceive and deliver unique experiences that stand out from the crowd and becomes a source of inspiration to others. During your studies you'll work with peers from your course and collaborate across many relevant courses at AUB to design and deliver live events and festivals in each and every year of your course.
**What you will learn**
The practical nature of the course means that you have opportunities to build a portfolio of work experience that potential employers will find attractive. Alongside your academic studies you'll also be offered further opportunities to add to that portfolio including a formal work placement. It is the stories that you tell about the many projects you worked on and the contacts that you make with our stakeholders and Alumni that will help you to seamlessly transition into the career you want to pursue.
The Alumni from this course are among some of the most successful and creative Event Managers in our industry. When you join us you'll be taking the first step towards joining them. We'll connect you with our network and a range of industry practitioners via guest lectures and site visits to events and festivals. Many students secure employment via the network of contacts that they develop on the course.
In the summer term of your second year, you will either undertake a short six-week work placement or prepare for a year-long placement between your second and third year of study, both of which will allow you to put your skills into practice, working in an industry setting.
**By the end of the course you will be able to...**
Our graduates have gone on to use their design and management skills in festival production, experiential marketing, brand activations, fashion shows, wedding planning, managing world-class museums, and fundraising for leading charities. By developing your practical design, project management and research skills, we'll help you become not only an experienced manager that's at the heart of every event but an experience architect, a designer of time.
**Studios and resources**
We provide all the resources that you’ll find in an events business. You’ll be able to work with equipment sourced specifically for your live projects, including lighting, sound, projection, staging and exhibition materials. We will also provide funding for your live projects so that you can produce work of a size and scale that looks and feels like a professional festival or event.
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