units

APG5067

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 November 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Arts
Organisational UnitCommunications and Media Studies
Monash Passport categoryResearch Challenge (Investigate Program)
OfferedNot offered in 2014

Synopsis

This unit examines the relationship between cultural production and consumption and new agendas for sustainable economic and social development developed by UNESCO, the World Bank and other international agencies. By cultural economy we include the broad range of cultural/creative industries, arts and traditional cultural practices and products, handicraft and forms of manufacture. We explicitly situate these as economic practices embedded in wider social and cultural contexts. Through our interdisciplinary and practice-based approach, we examine how cultural economies might be used to provide employment, strengthen identity and resilience and point to more sustainable, less volatile and dependent growth for developing countries. Through lectures, case studies and workshops, students are encouraged to bring their own experiences to bear on this emerging field of development.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Have a broad overview of contemporary issues in cultural economy and development
  2. Have an appreciation of the specific and practical challenges and opportunities for cultural economies in developing countries
  3. Apply independent research skills to a range of problems in the field of culture and sustainable development
  4. Be able to write and communicate effectively and in analytical depth
  5. Have a high degree of intercultural competence and effectively engage with the culture and development agenda in different parts of the world
  6. Be able to effectively utilise academic concepts to identify and investigate concrete challenges and issues in cultural development

Assessment

Case study workshop presentation: 30%
Final essay:70%

Workload requirements

Seminar/workshop attendance: 2 hours per week
Seminar/workshop preparation (reading, presentations): 8 hours per week
Library/research: 16 hours per week

Prerequisites

No prerequisite for this unit other than the prerequisites students are obliged to undertake in the Master of International Development.