Module manager: Dr Alice Borchi
Email: a.borchi@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
On this module you will explore a range of emerging and contemporary debates that affect art and culture. You will explore issues from a number of perspectives, considering, for example, the implications of valuing art and culture for economic returns, the impact of “creative industries” policies for artists and creative organisations, representation and diversity in cultural production, and the relationships between performance, art, culture and sustainability.
On completion of this module, students should be able to ...Analyse contrasting theoretical perspectives on the value and significance of performance, art and culture within contemporary societies, including artistic, social, economic and community; Interrogate artistic and cultural production and consumption models such as the cultural industries, culture as commodity and independent and community creative practices and apply them appropriately to selected empirical examples; Assimilate prior common and specialist learning with module content;Integrate module knowledge with future professional and career planning.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. An ability to locate their understanding of performance, arts and cultural industries within theoretical contexts informed by arts and selected social scientific knowledge;
2. A knowledge of the principal debates about the respective role of public policy, markets and networks in the development and working of performance, the arts and culture;
3. The ability to apply appropriate sociological and cultural theories of the performance and cultural industries to their own professional future planning;
4. An ability to represent in academic written form their own analyses of the form, structure and landscape of the performance and cultural industries.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
5. Effectively identify and communicate the impacts of external factors on the arts and cultural sectors
6. Engaging with ethical issues and how they impact decisions of arts and cultural workers and/or organisations
This module sets performance, the arts and cultural industries in contemporary theoretical and practical contexts, including: relevant cultural, social and economic theories (post-industrial society, the creative economy, social network markets, etc.), and especially with respect to the underlying assumptions of public policies, funding models and strategies, and, community and commercial contexts. The performance and cultural industries will be considered in terms of contrasting approaches to cultural value evidenced in a range of contemporary issues: enterprise, innovation, regeneration, access, education and social and cultural participation. Students will study the characteristics of performance and cultural industries with respect to typical modes of professional practice, creative work, the role of networks, markets and public policies, the organisational characteristics of the performance and cultural industries and, the nature of risk in the creative market-place
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Lecture | 8 | 1 | 8 |
| Seminar | 8 | 1 | 8 |
| Tutorial | 1 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Tutorial | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Private study hours | 180.8 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 19.3 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
On-going monitoring through tutor feedback on essay plan in personal tutorialSummative assessment through essay assignment
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Essay | 1,500 – 2,000 word essay | 30 |
| Portfolio | 3,000 word portfolio | 70 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 30/04/2025
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