Program Overview

Subject Information

Overview

This subject consolidates the students' learning over their course of study and provides a foundation for life-long learning. It is organized around thematic project labs which develop professional-standard practice. Students will reflect critically on personal and professional roles and challenges, including the value of environmental, political and economic diversity in the communication and creative industries.

Grading System

• HD/FL

Duration

• One session

School

• School of Communication and Creative Industries

Assumed Knowledge

This subject assumes that students are highly proficient and independent communication and creative industries practitioners with a minimum of two years practice/study.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

• be able to complete a complex project to professional standards for external/professional-clients/commissioners/audiences
• be able to work independently and as effective collaborative practitioners
• be able to critically appraise and justify their disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity
• be able to apply individual communication and creative practices in any of a number of research-led thematic domains for the benefit of their communities
• be able to critically reflect on professional issues in communication and creative industries including environmental, political and economic diversity towards evidenced capacity as a change-maker
• be able to critique both their own work and that of their peers

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:

• Researching and managing complex projects from planning to evaluation
• Professional behaviours, project management and critical reflection on roles in groups
• Producing a body of work to specific briefs and external demands
• Principles of reflective practice and life-long learning
• Environmental, economic and political diversity in global communication and creative industries
• Thematic Domains:
  • The Digital Innovation Lab
  • The Performance Futures Lab
  • The Ecocritical Practices Lab
  • The Speculative Fictions Lab
  • The Creative Regions Lab
  • The Media Studies Lab
  • Emergent labs/themes as appropriate