2023/24 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LLLC2264 Creativity, Work and Change

20 creditsClass Size: 40

Module manager: Gregory Tidswell
Email: G.S.Tidswell@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2023/24

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

On this module, we consider the role of creativity, innovation, branding and ethics in different kinds of organisations. It will enable you to reflect on your own relationship with creativity in relation to work and academic study, and it will involve developing a critical understanding of the role creativity and innovation play in how different organisations work to create change.

Objectives

This module will introduce students to key theories of creativity and innovation in order to:

- Enable them to reflect on their own developing relationship to creativity within academic and professional contexts

- Help them develop an understanding of how to apply these theories to an analysis of how different organisations use creative and innovative approaches to enable change

It will take an interdisciplinary approach drawing on theories and approaches from business studies, the philosophy of creativity and sociology. The teaching will be interactive, enabling students to learn how to understand and apply theories to their own experience and to different case studies within collaborative, stimulating and creative workshops and seminars.

Learning outcomes
1. Explain and discuss theories of creativity and innovation

2. Reflect on own relationship to creativity, drawing upon appropriate theories of creativity and innovation

3. Demonstrate understanding of how organisations use creative problem-solving to create or facilitate change

4. Critically evaluate organisations in relation to their creative problem-solving, marketing and ethics by appropriately applying research and theory

5. Demonstrate understanding of how to develop own ideas of creative problem solving through analysis of the organisation’s approach

Skills outcomes
- Creative problem solving

- Self-reflection

- Evaluation and critical thinking

Syllabus

The content will cover areas such as:

- Theories of creativity and innovation

- Reflective models

- Different kinds of organisations such as businesses, social enterprises and charities and how they work to create change

- Visual culture, marketing and branding of organisations

- Corporate social responsibility and ethics in organisations

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	10	2.00	20.00
Seminar	10	1.00	10.00
Independent online learning hours			30.00
Private study hours			140.00
Total Contact hours			30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

The teaching will be interactive, allowing students to test out ideas and get feedback in the teaching sessions. In addition, students will get an opportunity to get feedback on a draft of their presentation slides and to talk through their presentation plans with one of the tutors. Further, students will practice critiquing organisations together in designated assignment guidance workshops and get feedback on their ideas. Finally, students will be able to get feedback on a partial draft of their final written work.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Oral Presentation	5–7-minute presentation with visual aids & accompanying 500-word reflective piece: 2000-word equivalent	35.00
Portfolio	3000 words + appendices or web-based equivalent	65.00
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: 31/03/2023

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