(Award available for year: Postgraduate Diploma)
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
1. Critically discuss the importance of culture, creativity and entrepreneurship in contemporary economic, social, cultural and/or political contexts.
2. Critically engage with significant structural elements and operational strategies for practitioners and organisations in a creative industry or cultural sector.
3. Develop a critically informed approach to professional development within the cultural and creative industries.
4. Undertake an independent research project that critically explores theories and concepts relevant to culture, creativity and/or entrepreneurship
Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Collect, consider and critically evaluate information.
2. Collaborate with others using a range of communication and project management techniques.
3. Work independently to research, plan, synthesise concepts and articulate opinion following appropriate conventions.
4. Demonstrate capabilities as a reflective practitioner.
Three core modules will focus on:
- The students’ ability to articulate their ideas in relation to an understanding of academic theories on key concepts, allowing students to explore dilemmas in the industry relating to their subject specialism and to consider some of the deeper philosophical implications of discourse surrounding creative activities and perceptions of culture.
- Identifying the business models arising from aesthetic, technological and market related products and services found in the creative industries and cultural sectors. This will be assessed through the generation of briefing reports created from desk-based research on a range of enterprises and an in-depth case study.
- The entrepreneurship and employability skills developed through group work, project ideation and realisation. This will be assessed through experiential learning, video presentation and reflection on the development of individual subject specific knowledge and transferable skills relevant to career development planning and self-assessment.
An independent research project:
- Requires students to engage with academic theory and investigation through the design, delivery and presentation of their own inquiry. This is assessed through a final summative dissertation, with formative research proposal and data collection documentation.
One option module:
- Allows students to engage in further focused study related to their interests. Assessment may vary across option modules.
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