CCI10050 Introduction to Creative & Cultural Industries

Academic Year 2024/2025

This core module introduces the scope and significance of what are termed ‘creative and cultural industries’ and acts as a hub to connect the range of creative industries and cultural production explored throughout the overall programme. We already engage with many kinds of cultural and creative work, and this module establishes pathways towards future engagement by demonstrating how networks of cultural and creative workers - artists, writers, audiovisual specialists, editors, crew members, producers, and many more - collaborate with each other, and through organisations, to reach audiences. Using a range of analytical tools from sociology, media and cultural studies, students will be introduced to a broad range of contemporary cultural production and consumption that is participatory, globalised, and interdependent with digital technologies.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

● Undertake close study of the core creative and cultural industry sectors, including television and film, music, video games and digital media, theatre, museums and more
● Inspect the relationships between creative practices, cultural organisations and creative industries
● Examine changing patterns of media consumption and audience interaction
● Become familiar with practical and theoretical issues that face contemporary artists, cultural entrepreneurs, professionals and policy-makers
● Develop the ability to write about art, culture, cultural work and cultural industries fluently and confidently
● Investigate a number of scholarly approaches to the structure, history, and socio-cultural significance of cultural work and the cultural industries

Indicative Module Content:

An introduction to the practical, theoretical and critical elements of cultural work and cultural industries; case studies focusing on media forms and areas of society where culture is produced and distributed; interaction between creators, audiences and institutions.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

18
Tutorial

4
Specified Learning Activities

45
Autonomous Student Learning

53
Total

120
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures.
Critical writing.
Group work.
Debates. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade

Not yet recorded.

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Group project: students will give and receive peer feedback at the development stage of the project. Groups will receive written feedback from the course lecturer post-assessment. Journal: Students will receive individual written feedback from the course lecturer post-assessment.

Name Role
Ms Carla Briggs Tutor