ATI5061 · South East Asian creative economy

Overview

This research-led capstone unit seeks to equip you with conceptual and methodological tools for the analysis and understanding of the variety of functions of culture and creative industries across the geography and various polities of South East Asia. Seeking to ‘de-Westernise’ cultural economy approaches, it pays particular attention to the character and needs of emergent economies of Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam etc. The unit approach encompasses theory and methods drawn from political economy, sociological, cultural and urban studies to identify and interrogate local policy, practice and organisation in the contemporary and historical creative sector of South East Asia. The unit is formulated to nurture an inter-disciplinary research community through a workshop-based pedagogy, predicated on local fieldwork and digital connection and exchange with a community of Monash scholars and students in Australia and Malaysia. The unit equips you with skills to formulate practical agendas for CCI research and activity and communicate them to a variety of constituencies and interests in general and specific South East Asian contexts.

Areas of study: Creative Economy

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

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 and articulate the particular characteristics, challenges and opportunities of the South East Asian Creative Economy in policy, for practitioners and communities;
2. Evaluate and critique the various roles for cultural policy and creative industries in specific contexts across the South East Asian Creative Economy;
3. Independently formulate and execute an original research agenda for investigating, understanding and impacting the South East Asian Creative Economy in response to a variety of challenges and purposes;
4. Effectively engage with a high degree of intercultural competence with research participants and collaborators from different cultures and places across South East Asia;
5. Communicate effectively and in analytical depth to various audiences across a range of forms.

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.