The practice of cultural policy

Education facts

Code: KVGAS2

The course deals with cultural political systems with a focus on municipal and regional cultural policy, international cooperation and EU cultural policy as well as cultural field practices and their cultural policy governed activities. Central aspects such as the cultural political infrastructure and legitimacy as well as cultural policy and artistic quality and accessibility, participation and representativity are studied in terms of aspects of power, class, gender, ethnicity and variations in function. The course includes guest lectures give by practitioners in various cultural activities and study visits to different types of cultural institutions.

Entry requirements

General admission requirements

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• The practice of cultural policy

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Start date: 5 October 2026

  End date: 8 November 2026

  Pace of study: 100 %