(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
1. Understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and professional competencies some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship relevant to the creative industries;
2. Engage critically with key theories, concepts and debates relevant to the creative industries
3. Evaluate opportunities emerging from global and local differences and similarities across the creative industries
4. Present comprehensive and sophisticated arguments about the impacts of the creative industries
5. Appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in the disciplines relevant to the creative industries;
6. Undertake research projects in the creative industries
7. Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning
8. Understanding and apply ethical practice in context of the global creative industries
9. Evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving associated with the discipline;
10. Demonstrate professional attributes and skills necessary for success in the creative industries: problem solving, autonomous working, conform to professional boundaries and norms where appropriate.
Competence Standards
1. Demonstrate foundational skills in research, critical analysis, and effective communication.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the global creative industries and of the ethical, social, and commercial issues that occur within them.
3. Effectively communicate ideas and reasoning using appropriate media.
4. Effectively collaborate with others.
5. Use digital media to achieve learning outcomes.
If the chosen pathway includes an industrial placement –
6. Demonstrate ability to direct, monitor and evaluate their work, by seeking/accepting feedback, within a workplace context, using appropriate support as necessary.
7. Demonstrate an awareness of own strengths and development needs and the need for ongoing learning and proactive continuing professional development.
If the chosen pathway includes an international placement -
8. Collaborate effectively with other people in a new environment and successfully completes a period of work or study in another country.
9. Demonstrate self-awareness relating to personal and academic/professional development through successfully completing a period of work or study in another country.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
1. Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the Creative Industries: the ability to write concisely and effectively; to work collaboratively as part of a team; to respond imaginatively and flexibly to a brief; to access and utilise appropriate information; to problem solve; to communicate effectively in a variety of forms and to various audiences;
2. Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility: organisational skills; self-motivation; working to a deadline; punctuality and attendance; awareness of ethics.
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
1. The ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the academic study of the creative industries;
2. Work that draws on a wide variety of material;
3. The ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
4. Evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the creative industries.
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