APG5067 · Sustainable cultural development

Overview

This unit seeks to equip you with knowledge, skills and intercultural competences to explore the relationship between cultural production and consumption and new agendas for sustainable economic and social development at an international level. It evaluates policy and practice outside the global North, metropolitan cultures and industrial determinants (eg off-grid, DIY modes of creativity). The unity takes a cultural economy approach to encompass the broad range of cultural /creative industries, arts and traditional cultural practices and products, handicraft and forms of manufacture. These are situated as economic practices embedded in wider social and cultural contexts - local, national and global. Through an interdisciplinary and practice-based approach, we examine how cultural economies might be used to provide employment, strengthen identity and resilience and point to more sustainable, less volatile and dependent growth for developing cultures.

Areas of study: Cultural and creative industries International development practice International relations International sustainable tourism management

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Articulate and investigate conceptual and practical challenges and issues in cultural development and sustainability;
2. Critically evaluate solutions for practical challenges and opportunities for developing and sustaining cultural economies;
3. Apply independent research skills to a range of problems in the field of culture and sustainable development;
4. Communicate effectively and in analytical depth a breadth and depth of scholarly analysis applied to culture and development agendas in different cultural contexts.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.