Course unit details:
Creative Labour: Inequality, Diversity and Inclusion
Unit code | SALC60342 |
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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 course unit will combine a comprehensive critical overview of political economy and sociology of cultural and creative work, with a practical understanding of the challenges and opportunities for contemporary work and employment in the creative industries. It will consider issues of inequality, diversity and inclusion; human resources, enterprise & entrepreneurship; professional and organisational development, and employment law & practice.
Assessment will involve the development of a portfolio of practical tasks including contract development, scenario planning and human resource strategies, and a critical reflective essay.
Aims
To introduce and critically evaluate a comprehensive set of contemporary topics and issues relating to work within the creative and cultural industries through literature and case study examples
To provide a theoretical basis for the scholarly analysis and study of creative and cultural work
To establish key practical considerations for managing and leading creative and cultural enterprises
Through critical, research-led approaches, to identify and apply key tools and strategies for promoting fairness and social justice for work within the creative and cultural industries
Syllabus
Themes and content will include:
Week 1 - Paying artists and creatives
Week 2 - Creative justice: fairness, inclusion and inequalities in the CCIS
Week 3 – Creative entrepreneurialism and social innovation
Week 4 – Leadership or partnership? managing organisations and humans
Week 5 – Working freelance – managing time, contracts, tax and other survival strategies
Week 6 – Advocacy, collectivism and networks
Teaching and learning methods
Weekly one hour lecture and two hour seminars with directed learning and presentations to be prepared from week to week, including presentations by guest lectures. Students will be directed to conduct fieldwork in preparation for the class in specific weeks.
The course will be supported though Blackboard resources and the use of synchronous and asynchronous materials and teaching tools.
Knowledge and understanding
Develop comprehensive understanding and be able to critically evaluate a range of contemporary issues and debates relating to work in the creative and cultural industries
Consider and be able to apply practical plans, tools and strategies to support creative entrepreneurship and enterprise and to promote fair and just conditions for creative and cultural workers
Intellectual skills
Undertake self-directed learning and skills acquisition
Conduct independent data and case study analysis
Develop appropriate methodological and analytical skills
Practical skills
Initiate practical and creative solutions to specific criteria
Learn and apply practical tools and strategies for management and enterprise in the creative and cultural industries
Transferable skills and personal qualities
Retrieve, select and critically evaluate information from a variety of sources, including libraries, archives, and the internet
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
Employability skills
- Project management
- Develop skills and knowledge of practical tools for enterprise, management, human resources and contract management
- Other
- Develop evidence of skills acquisition as part of digital portfolio
Assessment methods
Method | Weight |
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Written assignment (inc essay) | 50% |
Portfolio | 50% |
Feedback methods
- Essay Proposal surgery and written comments (formative)
- Academic advisor meeting (formative)
- Turnitin (summative)
Recommended reading
Abbing, H (2002) Why are artists poor? The exceptional economy of the arts, Amsterdam University Press
Aldridge, M. and Evetts, J. (2003) Rethinking the concept of professionalism: the case of journalism, British Journal of Sociology 54 (4): 547–564
Anamik, S (2017) Race and the Cultural Industries, Wiley
Beugre, C (2017) Social Entrepreneurship: Managing the Creation of Social Value, Routledge
Banks, M. (2017) ‘Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality. London: Rowman & Littlefield International
Brooks, O, O’Brien, D and Taylor, M (2020) Culture is Bad for You, Manchester University Press
Bujor, A and Avasilcai, S 2016. The Creative Entrepreneur: A Framework of Analysis, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 221, 21-28 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.086.
Hesmondhalgh, D. and Baker, S. (2011) Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries, London: Routledge.
McRobbie, A. (2016) Be Creative, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Fieldwork | 3 |
Lectures | 6 |
Seminars | 12 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 129 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Abigail Gilmore | Unit coordinator |