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2015/16 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

PECI5208M Cultural Policy: Models and Debates

30 creditsClass Size: 15

Module manager: Dr Anna Upchurch
Email: a.upchurch@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2015/16

Module replaces

PECI 5205M

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

The module enables post-graduate students in the broad areas of Performance and the Cultural Industries to evaluate and analyze in depth an arts or cultural industries policy model using primary and secondary sources. They should gain an understanding of key debates in the model’s history and contribute to scholarship about the model’s implementation in the United Kingdom through primary research. With findings from this research and understanding of key debates, they will evaluate the implications for the implementation of the policy model in another country.

Objectives

The objectives of this module are to:
• Enable students to compare and evaluate arts and cultural industries policy models as developed and practised in different countries
• Engage students in a primary research project to develop their skills as researchers

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students should be able to:
• Understand debates about the history and origins of dominant cultural policy models in the West and selected international comparators.
• Understand and critique the objectives, structures, institutions, and administrative apparatus of cultural policy-making and implementation.
• Analyze, evaluate, and compare the development of a specific cultural policy in more than one country
• Employ primary data collection and analysis methods appropriate to cultural policy research, e.g. archival research, interviews, surveys.
• Critique concepts such as impact, evaluation, and policy transfer.

Syllabus

In this research-intensive module, students develop their knowledge and perspectives of cultural policy by studying an arts or cultural industries policy model in the West and its development and implementation in specific countries around the world. The models under study could include state patronage of the arts (arts council or cultural ministry); creative city policies that include cultural districts, quarters, or clusters; and the ‘city of culture’ model that uses culture in place-marketing or development policy. Working in small groups, they plan a research strategy and investigate aspects of the model’s implementation in the United Kingdom, thereby building their practice and skills as emergent researchers.

Learning is supported by seminars and tutorials. Seminar topics include:
• Cultural policies: international comparative perspectives
• A policy model under the microscope: origins, ideologies and assumptions
• Key debates in the historical development of the model
• Contemporary institutions and policy implementation
• Policy transfer
• Impact and evaluation: methods and debates
• Primary research in cultural policy: strategy, planning, and methods
• Research practice: Ethical review and conducting fieldwork

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Fieldwork	2	3.25	6.50
Seminar	7	2.50	17.50
Tutorial	1	0.50	0.50
Private study hours			275.50
Total Contact hours			24.50
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

Preparation for seminars and tutorial 80 hours
Preparation for data collection 10 hours
Data collection and analysis 60 hours
Preparation of assignment 125.5 hours

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress is monitored informally through participation during seminars, at individual tutorials, and formally through assessment.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	1 x 4,500-5,000 word essay	65.00
Presentation	Verbal - 20-minute group presentation of research findings	35.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 28/04/2016

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