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PGCert Audiences, Engagement and Participation

Year 1

(Award available for year: Postgraduate Certificate)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
• demonstrate an advanced understanding of concepts, theories and practices related to audience engagement and cultural participation;
• demonstrate ability to critically apply advanced scholarship to a specific area interest or practice related to audience engagement and cultural participation;
• proactively formulate ideas and hypotheses and apply them to the fields of audience engagement and cultural participation;
• critically evaluate current issues impacting on the arts and cultural industries and relevant research within the wider fields of arts management and cultural policy studies.

Transferable (key) skills

Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
• the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or develop post-graduate level employability skills in the arts and cultural industries;
• evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
• self-direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
• independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
• engage critically in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms in the arts and cultural industries.

Assessment

Achievement for the Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:
• demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and depth of knowledge to aspects of audience engagement and cultural participation;
• drawing on a range of perspectives from arts management and cultural policy studies;
• evaluating received opinion from academic and industry sources;
• making sound judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.

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