2012/2013
BA-HAS_CEPO Cultural Economics and Politics
| English Title |
| Cultural Economics and
Politics |
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| Language |
English |
| Exam ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory |
| Level |
Bachelor |
| Duration |
One Quarter |
| Course period |
Fourth Quarter |
| Time Table |
Please see course schedule at e-Campus |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc in Service
Management
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| Course
coordinator |
- Trine Bille - Department of Innovation and Organizational
Economics
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| Main Category of the
Course |
- Experience economy and service management
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Last updated on
03-09-2012
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| Learning objectives |
In the end of this course the
students should be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the central models,
concepts and theories presented through the course
- Systematically analyse cultural economic and political
situations with appropriate models and identify key problems
- Critically assess the value and relevance of models, concepts
and theories presented through the course in relation to their
practical application and policy implications
- Demonstrate knowledge of characteristics of demand and
participation in the cultural sector
- Demonstrate knowledge of production and price setting systems,
production decision making and financing of cultural good
- Demonstrate knowledge of market failures and how to correct for
market failures.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the role of government and the
regulatory authorities in the cultural sector at different
government levels and understand the rationales for the public
sector activities in culture
- Demonstrate knowledge of cultural political instruments and
their impact
- Critically assess the impacts of culture in urban and regional
development
- Demonstrate knowledge of the differences between the different
cultural fields and creative industries
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| Prerequisite |
| Students not enrolled in BSc in
Business Administration & Service Management must document a
level in English equal to TOEFL 575, and A level in mathematics
equal to Danish level B |
| Examination |
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Cultural
Economics and Politics:
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| Type of test |
Oral with Written Assignment |
| Marking scale |
7-step scale |
| Second examiner |
Second internal examiner |
| Exam period |
Summer Term |
| Aids |
Please, see the detailed regulations
below |
| Duration |
20 Minutes |
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The final exam is a 72-hour group
project. The project can be max. 10 standard pages in length and
the group size should be max. 2 - 3 students. The project will be
followed by an individual, 20 minutes oral exam, which takes its
point of departure in the group project, but also natural relations
to theory and models from syllabus. The individual assessment is
based on a combined evaluation of the written group project and the
individual oral exam.
Make-up examinations are given as an individual oral exam based on
the group project. Re-take examinations are given as an individual
oral exam based on the group project handed in for the regular
examination, as well as a supplementary piece, max. 5
standard pages in
length
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| Course content |
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Course content:
The course will provide an overview of the cultural sector,
cultural economics and cultural policy. The course will show how
economic theory can be used to analyze economic problems in the
cultural sector, dealing with issues like market demand for arts
and culture, determinants of participation in arts and culture,
market failures like externalities and public goods in the cultural
sector, non-market demand for arts and culture, cost-benefit
analysis, production, productivity and the earning gab (Boumol and
Bowens disease). Cultural policy will be analyzed using relevant
theoretical models, and concrete examples of cultural policy at the
national as well as at the local level will be analyzed and
discussed. Current issues such as culture in local and regional
development and experience economy will be covered.
Course aim:
The course aims at giving knowledge about cultural economics and
cultural politics in a Western context. Cultural economics will be
introduced as a discipline dealing with economic questions of the
cultural sector. The course aims at giving the students knowledge
about how cultural economics can be used to analyze economic
problems in the cultural sector, especially relating to public
finance of culture and thereby providing arguments for cultural
politics. Besides the course will introduce cultural policy,
characterize different models for cultural policy and show
different goals and instruments of the different
models.
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| Teaching methods |
| The teaching is based on lectures
giving overview of the theory, guest lecturers from the industry,
and student presentations of selected cases. It is expected that
students prepare before classes by reading relevant articles and
chapters as suggested in the reading schedule (on LEARN). |
| Student workload |
| Classes |
30 hours |
| Preparation for class |
125 hours |
| Exam |
70 hours |
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| Expected literature |
- Ruth Towse (2010): A textbook of Cultural Economics, Cambridge
University Press
- Compendium including articles on cultural economics and
politics.
Please note, minor changes may occur. The teacher
will upload the final reading list to LEARN two weeks before the
course starts.
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Last updated on
03-09-2012
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