Module manager: Dr Amelia Knowlson
Email: A.Knowlson@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is not approved as an Elective
Creative work is vital to contemporary economies as a driver of economic, social and cultural value. This module explores the contexts in which creative work happens, and how these workers are affected by issues such as technological change and precarious working conditions.
Through case studies and primary research, this module engages with critical debates about the conditions of labour in the cultural and creative industries, and its social, political, technological and economic contexts.
On completion of this module, students should be able to:-
1. Identify key cultural, economic and social contexts impacting creative work
2. Critically engage with specific issues affecting creative workers.
3. Apply relevant academic theories and concepts to specific examples and cases of creative work.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
1. Present critical arguments for a defined audience
2. Identifying and evaluating appropriate sources to support discussion about creative and cultural labour
In this module students will address debates about creative work and how these relate to changing cultural, economic and social contexts through lectures form academic staff and industry practitioners. Topics may include the exploration of the conditions of creative work such as motivation, renumeration, job security and legal rights.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 2 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Lecture | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| Practical | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Seminar | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Private study hours | 277 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 23 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300 | ||
Students will receive 2 - 30 minute group tutorials on the content and mode of delivery of their digital recording assessment.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Presentation approx. 30minutes | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Resits will take the form of an individual presentation that includes a wider exploration of the theories and debates related to their selected theme
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 3/13/2024
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