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2023/24 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
PECI3701 Contemporary Issues in Arts and Culture
20 creditsClass Size: 20
Module manager: Dr Sarah Raine
Email: s.raine@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2023/24
This module is not approved as a discovery module
Objectives
On completion of this module, students should be able to ...Analyse contrasting theoretical perspectives on the value and significance of performance, art and culture within contemporary societies, including artistic, social, economic and community;
Interrogate artistic and cultural production and consumption models such as the cultural industries, culture as commodity and independent and community creative practices and apply them appropriately to selected empirical examples;
Assimilate prior common and specialist learning with module content;
Integrate module knowledge with future professional and career planning.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this module, students will have acquired:
An ability to locate their understanding of performance, arts and cultural industries within theoretical contexts informed by arts and selected social scientific knowledge;
A knowledge of the principal debates about the respective role of public policy, markets and networks in the development and working of performance, the arts and culture;
The ability to apply appropriate sociological and cultural theories of the performance and cultural industries to their own professional future planning;
An ability to represent in academic written form their own analyses of the form, structure and landscape of the performance and cultural industries.
Skills outcomes
On successful completion of this Module students will be able to:
apply a range of research-based theoretical perspectives on the performance and cultural industries drawn from the arts and social sciences (Use of Knowledge and Analytical Skills);
map and interrogate a range of characteristics of the professional landscapes of the performance and cultural industries (Leadership);
engage critically with relevant areas of public policy and their application to the performance and cultural industries and the contexts within which they work (Social and Cultural Sensitivity and Critical Thinking);
the Module aims to promote the School’s ethos of fostering the creativity of the artist, the dynamism of the entrepreneur and the insight of the cultural activist.
Syllabus
This module sets performance, the arts and cultural industries in contemporary theoretical and practical contexts, including: relevant cultural, social and economic theories (post-industrial society, the creative economy, social network markets, etc.), and especially with respect to the underlying assumptions of public policies, funding models and strategies, and, community and commercial contexts. The performance and cultural industries will be considered in terms of contrasting approaches to cultural value evidenced in a range of contemporary issues: enterprise, innovation, regeneration, access, education and social and cultural participation. Students will study the characteristics of performance and cultural industries with respect to typical modes of professional practice, creative work, the role of networks, markets and public policies, the organisational characteristics of the performance and cultural industries and, the nature of risk in the creative market-place
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Workshop | 1 | 2.00 | 2.00 |
| Lecture | 8 | 1.00 | 8.00 |
| Seminar | 8 | 1.00 | 8.00 |
| Tutorial | 1 | 0.25 | 0.25 |
| Tutorial | 1 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Private study hours | 180.75 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 19.25 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200.00 | ||
Private study
Preparation for seminars 8 x 6 hours = 48 hoursAssignment preparation 132.75 hours
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
On-going monitoring through tutor feedback on essay plan in personal tutorialSummative assessment through essay assignment
Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Essay | 1500-2000 words | 30.00 |
| Portfolio | 3000 words | 70.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Reading list
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