Core Information

Details

The terms of reference for each placement are established by the brief developed between student and placement host. Placements will normally include the opportunity both to work in professional Creative Industries context related to the student's art-form pathway, and to carry out a piece of research for the host organisation, focusing on a particular element of the organisation. This research may be tightly defined or a more exploratory investigation of the organisations founding mission, the agendas to which it works, and the effectiveness of its organisational structures and leadership practices in realising these aims.

Core Information

• Credits: 20
• Term: 1 and 2(Michaelmas and Lent)
• Lectures: Ad Hoc meetings
• Assessment: 100% coursework (Report)

Aims and Outcomes

This module aims to:

• To develop understanding of the realities of working in the professional arts and creative industries
• To develop skills in planning and delivering an arts consultancy as set out in a client brief
• To enable students to measure organisational activity against a set of company aims and objectives
• To develop reflective skills and critical analysis on management/leadership in practice
• To develop skills in presenting information in a form appropriate to a commercial or public-sector client

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• Understand the pressures and realities of working in the creative sector
• Consider and describe their own art-making in the light of seeing the support and delivery of art practice in a professional Creative Industries context
• Analyse and explain the complex links between government/funding agendas, targets, aims and objectives, and the day-to-day running of an arts organisation
• Present a critical understanding of how an organisation's business model and leadership style influences decision-making and planning, and how that organisation presents itself to clients, the wider industry and the public

Bibliography

Bibliography

• This module comprises a specific creative industries/arts organisation placement, working in a professional context. The reading and therefore library provision relating to this (and the preparation for the placement) takes place in LICA 412 (Cultural Organisations in Practice).