Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Liverpool Screen School

Learning Methods

Seminar

Module Offerings

6057CW-SEP-MTP

Aims

1. To enable students to recognize and articulate the skills they have gained throughout their degree, and to help them identify career opportunities in which they might use them.
2. To expand students' knowledge of the creative industries, roles within it (both freelance and employed), skills and experience required, and routes towards these.
3. To develop students' skills in research, comparative analysis, and clearly structured analytical writing.
4. To develop students' ability to contextualise their own creative work and present themselves effectively and professionally as writers.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Demonstrate an understanding of roles and organisations within the creative industries, the ways in which they use writing, and the skills they require.
2.
Demonstrate the ability to present themselves effectively and professionally as writers, using platforms and formats appropriate to the creative industries.
3.
Demonstrate proactive planning and research in relation to personal development and potential employment opportunities.
4.
Demonstrate the ability to produce well structured, well researched, analytical writing.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
The module will be a mix of class and group activities, sessions with guest speakers, and independent research and planning. It will draw on the expertise of the university's Student Futures team, alongside the subject-specific knowledge of the module teaching team, and a range of guest speakers from the creative industries, to deepen students' understanding of potential employment opportunities and to help them map and plan their own routes towards this. Through a series of guided activities, students will be enabled to reflect on their existing skills and experience, identify areas for development, and explore ways of presenting themselves as writers and creative-industry professionals. They will also develop their skills in research, analytical writing and clear written communication, through researching case studies in the creative industries and writing these up in a comparative analytical study.
Module Overview:
The module will be a mix of class and group activities, sessions with guest speakers, and independent research and planning. It will draw on the expertise of the university's Student Futures team, alongside the subject-specific knowledge of the module teaching team, and a range of guest speakers from the creative industries, to deepen students' understanding of potential employment opportunities and to help them map and plan their own routes towards this. Through a series of guided activities, students will be enabled to reflect on their existing skills and experience, identify areas for development, and explore ways of presenting themselves as writers and creative-industry professionals. They will also develop their skills in research, analytical writing and clear written communication, through researching case studies in the creative industries and writing these up in a comparative analytical study.
Additional Information:
This module foregrounds a connection with Student Futures and the importance of being proactive and developing a plan for post-graduation whilst still developing critical writing and research skills necessary for further study.

Assessments

Portfolio
Essay