Course unit details:
Global, Cultural and Creative Industries
| Unit code | SALC60402 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 15 |
| Unit level | FHEQ level 7 – master's degree or fourth year of an integrated master's degree |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
| Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
This module will examine theoretical fundamentals, global paradigmatic models, and evidence-based policy analysis of Global Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). By reviewing case studies in different countries, we will discuss representative tools, policies, and their socio-economic multidimensional impacts. Our examination of CCIs will draw on a set of techniques and innovative global strategies, which will help us analyse how evidence can shape a better understanding of impact (ex-post analysis) and policymaking (ex-ante decision making) for Global Creative Industries. The module’s social and economic analysis of CCIs will emphasise different visions and approaches found in relevant global policies. You will be introduced to pertinent theoretical lenses, and databases, to understand various layers of the socio-economic impact of different global policies for arts, technology, and digital markets innovations (from GDP and international trade to wellbeing, cultural value, and human and social development). The learning track of this module is composed of three axes: Axis i. The Cultural Economics and Global Creative Industries (4 weeks): aims to examine different theoretical elements and tools in Cultural Economics, Cultural and Creative Industries and Evidence-based policies; Axis ii. Policies for Arts and Global Creative Industries (5 weeks): an overview on the relevant global policies for Arts and Creative industries focusing on narratives shaped by evidence, considering paradigms in the decision-making (ex-ante) as well as broader impacts (ex-post); Axis iii. Research-training on producing evidenced based policies for CCIs (3 weeks): in this axis you will create an individual portfolio of evidence-based analysis aiming at the study of a global (or sectorial) policy for CCIS, producing a multidimensional evaluation of strategy and impact. |
Aims
- Develop a critical understanding of the theoretical frameworks, policies, evidence production and context-impact evaluation in the field of Cultural Economics and Global Creative Industries.
- Establish a critical ability to read and interpret the ecosystem of data production on the Socio-Economic impact of Arts and Creative Industries.
- Develop capacity in producing strategic evidence relying on consistent research methodologies for primary and secondary data under the specificities of Arts and Creative Industries Management.
- Combine theoretical knowledge and practical references in data-production abilities for the public, semi-public and private decision-making process and accountability in the Arts Management activities.
Knowledge and understanding
- Comprehension of the ecosystem of Creative Industries policies in the UK and the world.
- Demonstrate understanding of contemporary debates on new strategies of accountability and evidence-based policies for arts managers, practitioners, and policymakers.
- Understand the application of the economic rationale to the arts and creative industries and build on diverse methodologies, lenses, and multidimensional instruments.
- Develop knowledge on how to analyse, compare, and evaluate different strategies of tools to assess arts and culture impact and critically assess the measurement of impacts commonly used by arts managers and governments.
Intellectual skills
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Practical skills
- Initiate practical and creative solutions to specific criteria
- Communicate complex research findings through clear written and verbal articulation, supported by appropriate technological tools
- Achieve an advanced and critically informed level of group work
- Gain experience in decision-making based on evidence
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- Retrieve, select and critically evaluate information from a variety of sources, including libraries, archives, and the internet
- Orchestrate group work in disciplinary and multi-disciplinary contexts and work constructively within a team
- Communicate information and ideas effectively in a professional, as well as an academic, environment
- Critically evaluate personal performance through monitoring and analytical reflection
- Demonstrate independent learning ability suitable for continuing study and professional development
- Develop skills and gain experience in group project work and communication
Employability skills
- Project management
- Gain experience in development and evaluation of an Arts and/or Creative Industries project/policy Gain experience in development and evaluation of an Arts and/or Creative Industries project/policy
- Oral communication
- Articulate clearly key historic and contemporary debate on Creative Industries policies
- Research
- Get data-analysis skills required in evidence-bases policies
- Other
- Manage time efficiently
Assessment methods
| Method | Weight |
|---|---|
| Written assignment (inc essay) | 100% |
Feedback methods
Essay Proposal surgery and written comments - Formative
Academic advisor meeting - Formative
Turnitin - Summative
Recommended reading
Banks, M.; O’Connor J. After the creative industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy, Oxfordshire, v. 15, n. 4, p. 365–373, 2009 Flew, Terry. The Creative Industries: Culture and Policy. Los Angeles, [Calif.]¿;: SAGE, 2012. Hesmondhalgh, D., Oakley, K., Lee, D., Nisbett, M. Culture, Economy and Politics. The Case of New Labour. London: Palgrave, 2015 Kong, Lily., and Justin. O’Connor. Creative Economies, Creative Cities: Asian-European Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009 O’Brien, Dave. Cultural Policy: Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2014 Peris-Ortiz, Marta. Cultural and Creative Industries. 1st ed. Springer International Publishing, 2019 Potts, J.; Cunningham, S. Four models of the creative industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy, v. 14, n. 3, p. 233–247, 2008. Salvador, Elisa, Trilce Navarrete, and Andrej Srakar. Cultural Industries and the COVID-19 Pandemic¿: a European Focus. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2022 |
Study hours
| Scheduled activity hours | |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 9 |
| Seminars | 18 |
| Work based learning | 18 |
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 105 |
Teaching staff
| Staff member | Role |
|---|---|
| Leandro Valiati | Unit coordinator |