Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

This is a practical module during which you will attempt to turn your creative idea into a viable business proposition. You will learn about the basics of business and financial planning, but also confront some of the specific and personal challenges of running a cultural enterprise where ideas, personalities and experience are at the core of the business. Finally, you will pitch your business idea to a panel of experts and investors - and if they like your idea they might even make a real investment in your business.

Principal learning outcomes

Students will demonstrate an understanding of key terms and principles in financial management and planning; understand the principles of setting up an enterprise understand the assumptions and principles behind investment in the creative industries for different types of investor and different types of enterprise; make a convincing case for investment in a creative enterprise, using appropriate evidence, arguments and language; reason critically and debate interpretations; present an argument or case convincingly to a group of people; communicate what you have learnt, both orally and in writing; work collaboratively with others in seminar presentations; solve problems, arising from seminar presentations and written assignments.

Timetabled teaching activities

Lectures, Seminars and tutorials.

Departmental link

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/cp/study/options/practice/cultent

Other essential notes

Centre for Cultural Policy Studies module

Module assessment

Assessment group	Assessment name	Percentage
20 CATS (Module code: TH919-20)
A1 (Assessed work only)	Assessed Course Work	20%
	Assessed Course Work	80%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

N/A

Optional Core

N/A

Optional

• Postgraduate Taught Creative and Media Enterprises (W4P4) - Year 2
• Postgraduate Taught Global Media and Communication (W4PG) - Year 2
• Postgraduate Taught International Cultural Policy and Management (W4PM) - Year 2
• Postgraduate Taught Arts, Enterprise and Development (W4PQ) - Year 2