APG5662 · Cultural and creative industries

Overview

This unit complements the conceptual, historical and industrial themes developed in APG5900 Cultural Economy. You will be introduced to the evolving structure of a range of cultural and creative industries. You will learn about key dynamic trends such as digitalisation, financialisation, clustering, globalisation and intellectual property legislation. The unit enables you to link these high level tendencies to the specific context of particular industries and sub-sectors, and/or places/spaces. The assessment provides you with the opportunity to undertake a case study approach to a cultural/creative industry of your choice.

Areas of study: Communications and media studies Cultural and creative industries

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. identify the major issues and debates in the cultural and creative industries;
2. demonstrate an understanding of the structure and dynamics of contemporary cultural and creative industries;
3. apply concepts to specific cultural and creative industry case studies;
4. demonstrate analytical, independent research skills;
5. demonstrate an ability to link structural trends to specific industry contexts.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. 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.