Creative Industries

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• manage workloads accommodating feedback, change and uncertainty

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• explore and employ appropriate media, materials and processes when reviewing and refining ideas

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how your discipline integrates and socially engages with communities and the wider civic society

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify appropriate practices and perform work within a professional and ethical framework including equality, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• analyse, collate and manage sourced data and research to inform and underpin your decisions

Topics covered will vary according to current developments and availability of industry partners, but might include: emerging developments in creative technology for design and marketing; work patterns and project management; advice on working freelance or setting up a business; creative installations for museums, heritage sites and galleries; the games industry; and user-testing and evaluation of your projects in response to client briefs or audience response.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures from course staff and industry partners on creative and cultural industries, and from careers staff on planning for employment. Industry partners will set and evaluate ‘live’ briefs, that is projects that connect with current real-world challenges and contexts. Students will undertake their own self-initiated research project into an aspect of work and industry that interests them.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Balsamo, Anne (2011). Designing Culture: the technological imagination at work. Durham NC: Duke University Press.

Poell, Thomas, Nieborg, David & Duffy, Brooke Erin (2021). Platforms and Cultural Production. London: Polity Press.

Hesmondhalgh, David (2018). The Cultural Industries. London: Polity Press.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Digital presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.