Course Catalogue

View Specification Document | Reading List

This course will analyse community, arts and media from a community development perspective. Using local and international examples, it will explore the impact arts and media have on communities and appreciate the importance of creative platforms to enhance feelings of well-being and human flourishing.

It will consider how arts and media might support communities and individuals to articulate their own concerns and priorities. The module will examine the spaces that are used and the environments that are created to empower communities to have a voice and tell their story through creative means.

This will encourage discussion and critical analysis around alternative methods of learning in the field of community development practice.

5 * 4-hour sessions

Completion of level 3, or equivalent, with a GPA of 12 (C3) across levels 1, 2, and 3

N/A

N/A

1 - A creative output which critically analyses the use of arts and media in communities that promotes voice and enhances well-being.

2 - A 750 word critical reflection on the use of the creative output which examines arts and media in the community.

The aim of this course is to critically examine how arts and media can be used within community spaces to provide a voice and enhance feelings of well-being and human flourishing.

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

LO1: Examine arts and media as alternative methods of engaging with communities.

LO2: Critically evaluate defining characteristics associated with community, arts and media from a community development perspective

LO3: Articulate a newfound knowledge in relation to the impact arts and media has on well-being and human flourishing within communities

LO4: Critically analyse issues within communities that arts and media challenge to promote empowerment.

LO5: Critically reflect on the spaces that arts and media use as a means to creating distinctive learning environments.