Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Project Proposal This assignment that presents a viable funding application for a creative project. 3000 Words | 60% |
| Semester Assessment | Professional Portfolio Portfolio that evidences the development of professional artistic practice. 2000 Words | 40% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Professional Portfolio that evidences the development of professional artistic practice. 2000 Words | 40% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Project Proposal A viable funding application for a creative project. 3000 Words | 60% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Demonstrate critical awareness and understanding of contextual factors for public engagement, including cultural policies, funding structures, institutions, and audiences.
Develop and deploy appropriate methods and strategies for engaging with institutions and audiences through a portfolio evidencing a developing professional practice.
Integrate a critical awareness of contextual factors and public engagement strategies into the development of a proposal for a creative project.
Brief description
This module equips students with skills to support their professional development as emerging artists. Students will critically examine key contexts for professional creative practice, including cultural and artistic policies, institutions, funding and support structures, and audiences. The module introduces institutions, companies, and artists whose different modes of public engagement develop impact and value. The module also offers practical strategies in writing funding applications, basic budgeting, CV and personal statement writing and engaging with audiences, to ensure students develop practical transferable skills in a professional context. Where possible, workshops will be arranged with professional artists, policy makers, curators, or entrepreneurs.
Content
The module will be organized through five thematically focused blocks of study:
1. Audiences
a. Engaging Publics and Audiences
b. Aesthetics of Engagement
2. Policies
a. Cultural Policy, Values and Purposes
b. Artistic Policies and Strategies
3. Institutions
a. Funding Structures
b. Writing Funding Applications
4. Infrastructures
a. Support Structures
b. Planning and Project Management
5. Ecologies
a. Thinking and Working Ecologically
b. Evaluating Impact
Fortnightly seminars will offer support for the precise requirements of the module’s assignments:
1. Framing your practice (Personal statement writing)
2. Framing your skills and experience (CV writing)
3. Documenting your practice
4. Developing Projects
5. Basic Budgeting
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Communication | The ability to communicate ideas effectively is developed and assessed. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Self-regulation, motivation and time-management skills are developed through the module and are demanded for the successful completion of its assignments. |
| Information Technology | The ability to utilize information technology both in the research for and delivery of assignments is assessed directly. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Transferable skills (managing personal workloads and meeting deadlines, designing and realizing assessment projects) are developed and assessed directly |
| Problem solving | Analytical problem solving, outcome recognition and the identification of appropriate strategies and procedures are encouraged and assessed. |
| Research skills | Independent research and the development of effective personal research practices are encouraged and assessed. |
| Subject Specific Skills | The ability to employ mediated means in the exposition of intellectual material within an academic context. The ability to employ a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of work and practice in the public domain |
| Team work | Seminar discussions demand the application of skills necessary to conduct collaborative activity, such as negotiating ideas and opinions. Students work in collaboration with others on the formulation and implementation of practical research. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7