The Curating and Cultural Leadership Stream supports students who wish to enter many of the new roles emerging in contemporary digital culture. It emphasises the fluid boundaries between all of these activities, and promotes a collaborative approach. This strand fosters a vision of leadership that is diverse and limited by neither age nor status, it educates students to develop a unique individual philosophy underpinned by a robust and flexible skill set.

The stream allows students to choose courses that focus on both museum education, policy, management, critical writing, promotion, production as well as contemporary curatorial practice as a diverse and dynamic profession, which plays a key role in setting cultural agendas and discovering new ground.

The Curating and Cultural Leadership Specialisation consists of 6 courses (36 UOC) made up of either SAHT9310 Exhibiting Cultures or SAHT9124 Arts and Cultural Policy, and either COFA9312 Leadership in the Cultural and Creative Industries or SAHT9117 Contemporary Curating: Theories and Practices and 4 courses (24 UOC) from the following list:

Students who wish to undertake a higher degree research degree are advised to complete SAHT9116 Research Paper.