After carrying out private study, attending and participating in seminars, and undertaking the assessment for this module, students should have the ability to:
• Recognise the difficulty and importance of defining ‘cultural policy’
• Engage with and critique key assumptions and theories underpinning cultural policies
• Identify political, social and economic imperatives that inform cultural policy in a range of contexts
• Recognise the relationship of cultural policy to arts management
• Draw upon, interpret, and evaluate academic literature in developing arguments in written and oral form

Students will engage with and debate differing viewpoints on what constitutes culture and how that is operationalised as a form of public policy across different times and places. Specific issues will vary year on year in response to new research and what’s happening in the world around us. Concerns regarding diversity and marginalised people and communities will be explored across topics, rather than as a standalone issue.

Issues and topics will be drawn from the following areas:
Creativity and the Economy
Creative Industries
Forms of Participation
Markets and Consumption
Cultural Labour
Sustainability
Impact, Measurement, and Value
Data Rights
Cultural Diplomacy and Soft Power
Place-based policy
Cultural Buildings and Quarters
Industry Clusters
Education
Covid-19

An honours university degree at minimum level of 2.2 and work experience in the cultural sector. Selection is by short-listing and interview.

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

Substantial written feedback will be posted to Brightspace individually for each student, following submission. Criteria for each assessment is detailed in the syllabus.