Unit 7

Unit 7 Dissertation or Live Project

Unit Code: MU000683 | 60 credits

Unit 7 Dissertation or Live Project is the final, Masters-specific 60-credit unit, which enables you to reflect critically on theories and critical skills encountered previously in the course, while proposing new approaches to cultural production, in a self-directed dissertation or major project. The dissertation is an individual academic study, based on models and theories discussed throughout the course; the live project puts strategies of cultural production into practice. This unit culminates in you working together to organise an online intervention.

Holistic assessment

• Option A – Dissertation: A 12,500-word dissertation in the form of an in-depth, critical analysis of the theoretical principles and discourses of cultural production and innovation (summatively assessed).

• Option B – Live Project: an individual practical project, with original research and appropriate documentation totalling 12,500 words, which identifies and puts into practice some of the strategies of cultural production and innovation previously encountered on the course (summatively assessed).

• Supported by the Course Team, you are also all required to work with your peers on the organisation of an online intervention. The organisation of the intervention is an opportunity to work as a group, and to employ strategies of cultural production encountered on the course. The intervention is also an opportunity to celebrate the critical and creative achievements of the group with a wider audience (formatively assessed).

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