BA Global Creative Industries

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
1. Understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and professional competencies some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship relevant to the creative industries;
2. Engage critically with key theories, concepts and debates relevant to the creative industries
3. Evaluate opportunities emerging from global and local differences and similarities across the creative industries
4. Present comprehensive and sophisticated arguments about the impacts of the creative industries
5. Appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in the disciplines relevant to the creative industries;
6. Undertake research projects in the creative industries
7. Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning
8. Understanding and apply ethical practice in context of the global creative industries
9. Evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving associated with the discipline;
10. Demonstrate professional attributes and skills necessary for success in the creative industries: problem solving, autonomous working, conform to professional boundaries and norms where appropriate.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
1. Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the Creative Industries: the ability to write concisely and effectively; to work collaboratively as part of a team; to respond imaginatively and flexibly to a brief; to access and utilise appropriate information; to problem solve; to communicate effectively in a variety of forms and to various audiences;
2. Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility: organisational skills; self-motivation; working to a deadline; punctuality and attendance; awareness of ethics.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
1. The ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the academic study of the creative industries;
2. Work that draws on a wide variety of material;
3. The ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
4. Evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the creative industries.