This 15-credit, work-based module will be offered to students of the LiFTS Department and other Departments in the Faculty of Humanities in Year Two of their studies. It will run for ten weeks in the Spring Term.
The course will be a ‘live project’ built around a work challenge set by a local employer. The project may be with a creative, cultural or arts organisation, or an employer that is seeking creative/cultural input from arts/humanities students. The employer will ask the members of the ‘live-project’ cohort to respond to, conceptualise and deliver on a project that seeks to have benefit to the organisation itself, and/or the wider cultural ecology, to academic knowledge, or to local community groups.
Overseen by a tutor from LiFTS and supported by colleagues from the Employment and Careers Centre, this module will allow students to have an additional compelling CV entry, and to have the benefit of relevant, ‘real-life’ work experience on completion of their degree.
Building on previous models of Departmental partnership working, this module will collaborate with one cultural or arts organisation each year to provide a range of original and unique challenges and opportunities for our students. We will look to institutions such as First Site, The Mercury Theatre, Metal Southend, Colchester & Ipswich Museums, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, High House Production Park, Fingringhoe Nature Reserve, Colchester Arts Centre, Essex Libraries, Wolsey Theatre, Focal Point Gallery Southend, Wivenhoe Press and the Essex Book Festival. Institutions will be around 30-mile radius to the Colchester campus to keep the project accessible to all participants. The first project partner for 2020 will be the Essex Book Festival https://essexbookfestival.org.uk