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This course studies the production, distribution, and viewership of creative works from the global South. It focuses on the transnational circulation of creative culture, with particular attention paid to creative border crossings within the global South. It charts how forces such as globalization, digitalization, and migration shape the production, circulation, and consumption of creative culture from a variety of domains including film, music, fashion, and visual art.

10 x 1 hr lecture over 10 weeks as scheduled on MyCampus

10 x 1 hr Seminar over 10 weeks as scheduled on MyCampus

Available to all students fulfilling requirements for Honours entry into MA Creative Arts and Industries, and by arrangement to visiting students or students of other Honours programmes who qualify under the University's 25% regulation

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The standard assessments for this course are:

■ 3000-word portfolio of three short texts (1000 words each) - 60%

■ 7-min. recorded presentation - 40%

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:

■ There is no alternative to the portfolio, but a flexible deadline can be offered as reasonable adjustment (students should follow the usual process for extensions)

■ Written script of equivalent word count as alternative to the recorded presentation.

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.

This course aims to:

■ Introduce students to a wide range of creative products from the global South and the cultural and institutional mechanisms that enable their existence and circulation

■ develop students' understanding of the global currents that shape the production and distribution of creative culture across borders

■ foster students' critical thinking about how creative products move through time and space and how they are used and appreciated by diverse audiences

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Analyse creative products from a variety of artistic disciplines and geographic contexts, with particular emphasis on creative products from the global South

■ Contextualize creative products within the socio-political circumstances of their production, distribution, and viewership

■ Critically engage with scholarly literature on cultural and creative industries in the global South

■ Produce sustained argument in both written and oral form about the production, circulation, and consumption of creative culture from the global Sout