This 10 week Module builds upon students basic understanding of general management to explore the particularities of the cultural industries An increasingly important sector of the econom, the cultural industries are distinctive both in terms of their political economy and their organizational forms, management systems and labour processes This module offers a high level analysis of the cultural industries by starting from a consideration of what is distinctive about culture as an economic product and proceeds to consider what this distinctiveness means for the structure of the industries how new technologies, globalization and intellectual property rights legislation have shaped their development and what this means for work and management within these industries Throughout the module students will be encouraged to engage actively in their own learning by contributing to teaching through assessed group presentations
The Module does not offer a prescriptive set of guidelines for managing in the cultural industries but provides students with the conceptual tools and the historical knowledge to critically analyse and situate this sector for themselves Through the group research and presentation, the module also facilitates the development of important transferable skills such as time management project planning research critical thinking and analysis groupwork and presentation skills
The module has been designed to:
1. Provide a theoretical and empirical understanding of the cultural industries: what they are; what is distinctive about them; their historical development; and their location within advanced capitalist political economy.
2. Provide both theoretical and empirical analysis of work and management within the cultural industries, and how these are being shaped by broad influences like technological change, globalisation, legislation and policy, marketization and organizational restructuring.
3. Through class discussion, participation and group work, develop the students' analytical and critical reasoning skills, and enable them to present a clear case analysis with reference to academic theory and empirical evidence.
Module Outcomes
By the end of the module the students should be able to:
1. Understand the political economic context of the cultural industries and the implications this has for organizational structure, management, and the labour process within these industries.
2. Understand and explain the significance of changes in media technology, globalisation, legislation, policy, markets, and organizational structure for the cultural industries.
3. Critically analyse and synthesise academic theories and organizational practices in the cultural industries.
The Module does not offer a prescriptive set of guidelines for managing in the cultural industries but provides students with the conceptual tools and the historical knowledge to critically analyse and situate this sector for themselves Through the group research and presentation, the module also facilitates the development of important transferable skills such as time management project planning research critical thinking and analysis groupwork and presentation skills
The module has been designed to:
1. Provide a theoretical and empirical understanding of the cultural industries: what they are; what is distinctive about them; their historical development; and their location within advanced capitalist political economy.
2. Provide both theoretical and empirical analysis of work and management within the cultural industries, and how these are being shaped by broad influences like technological change, globalisation, legislation and policy, marketization and organizational restructuring.
3. Through class discussion, participation and group work, develop the students' analytical and critical reasoning skills, and enable them to present a clear case analysis with reference to academic theory and empirical evidence.
Module Outcomes
By the end of the module the students should be able to:
1. Understand the political economic context of the cultural industries and the implications this has for organizational structure, management, and the labour process within these industries.
2. Understand and explain the significance of changes in media technology, globalisation, legislation, policy, markets, and organizational structure for the cultural industries.
3. Critically analyse and synthesise academic theories and organizational practices in the cultural industries.