Postgraduate - UnitAPG5066 - Shanghai city lab

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Communications and Media Studies
Offered	Overseas Term 3 2015 (Off-campus block of classes)
Coordinator(s)	Professor Justin O'Connor; Dr Xin Gu

Notes

This is an international study program that requires an application to be enrolled - see the Study OverseasStudy Overseas (http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/study-overseas/) page for further information.
The unit is offered as a Term 3 unit - see the Winter Arts ProgramWinter Arts Program (http://www.monash.edu/students/courses/arts/winter-program.html) page for further information.

Synopsis

This unit takes staff and students to Shanghai. Students will receive lectures from Monash staff and engage in observational study of China's biggest city. Shanghai is the economic capital of China and the site where western modernity first made landfall in the 1850s. Since that time it has evolved under a complex mix of domestic and international influences. Since 1992 it has been promoted as China's global city and has used arts and culture, and later the cultural creative industries as an essential part of this ambition. This unit allows students to experience this dynamic city first hand, guided by Monash staff who have researched and lived in the city. Students will be given local context, information and a research overview by Monash staff who will also supervise small study excursions of the city.

Outcomes

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

Have an introductory understanding of the historical development of cultural economy in Shanghai
Have an appreciation of the specific and practical challenges and opportunities facing those wotking the the cultural industries and cultural clusters in Shanghai
Have a high degree of intercultural competence and effectively engage with students and staff from different cultures and places.
Be able to write and communicate effectively and in analytical depth
Show an ability to operate indepedently and responsibly in a different cultural context.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Justin O'Connor

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Cultural economy