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PGDip Audiences, Engagement, Participation(Part-time)

Year 1

(Award available for year: Postgraduate Diploma)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have shown evidence of being able:
• to demonstrate in-depth, extended or specialist understanding of concepts, theories and practices related to audience engagement and cultural participation;
• to exhibit competence in the exercise of advanced generic and subject-specific intellectual abilities related to audience engagement and cultural participation;
• to take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others;
• to proactively formulate ideas and hypotheses, apply them to the fields of audience engagement and cultural participation and evaluate them;
• 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 for employment in a higher capacity 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;
• critically to engage 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/or 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;
• make sound judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.

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