The emphasis throughout is on broadening access to the visual arts by developing practices and working in contexts which will engage and involve a larger number of people. Accordingly, the course is specially designed to meet the needs of visual arts organizations and audiences for trained facilitators and intermediaries.

In recognition of the changing scope and status of art in society, emphasis is also laid on transferable skills and the development of an understanding of the interconnectedness of contemporary contexts and practices. As well as fostering flexibility and a solid understanding of the cultural mechanisms by which art becomes part of the social, the course also offers the opportunity to specialise in or, where appropriate, to continue developing professionally in one strand of facilitatory or intermediary practice within the visual arts.