Course overview
Students will be introduced to the Creative Arts, exploring frameworks to better understand the arts and cultural industries, and careers within these. Through case studies addressing the experiences of artists and cultural workers from a wide variety of cultural sectors, students will develop their own identities as creative professionals and pathways to creative work. By examining the nexus of artist, funding body, company, audience, government, economy and society, and critically reflecting on their own place within this nexus, students will gain important skills for project-planning, problem solving, and creative innovation.
- Foundations
- Mapping
- Visions
Course learning outcomes
- Describe key theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding creative and cultural work.
- Discuss the various stakeholders in creative fields, including audiences, industries, policy, critics, artists and platforms
- Demonstrate knowledge of a chosen creative field and its opportunities.
- Communicate effectively to translate their own creative ideas into project plans that can be used to propose relationships for collaboration.
- Critically evaluate case studies of creative work to identify principles of effective creative processes as they relate to artistic production, projects and spaces.