Creative Industries (English, Media, Music, Drama and Writing)

This module is designed to build on your academic learning, together with life and employability skills, ensuring you reach your full potential through a clear understanding of Higher Education expectations.

Alongside developing your skills in communication and academic writing you will explore your best strategies for learning, develop skills in team building, cooperation and resilience and know how these will support your further studies and employability.

This module works in partnership with ARU Personal and professional Development (PPD) Pulse, to support your personal and professional development throughout your four years

The module comprises of 16 Student Standards that will evidence your preparation for undergraduate study.

During your two trimesters of study, you will submit evidence to the sixteen student standards. This allows you to demonstrate your learning journey throughout the module with a focus on learning to learn, resubmissions and improvements support your portfolio and demonstrate your cheerful outlook and resilience to learning.

It will ensure you have a confident understanding of the institutional culture, practices, norms and expectations of British higher education together with personal skills in resilience, teamwork and an understanding of the responsibilities of belonging to a higher educational establishment.

The module aims to ensure you develop:

• Academic Communication
• Effective resilient learning skills
• Career and Life-building skills

Learning to Learn is benchmarked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning.  Standards 1-7 have clear referencing to the benchmarking within the standard.  Your portfolio of evidence will demonstrate competence in each of the four skills of academic reading, writing, speaking, and listening and are included to confirm that you meet the appropriate exit threshold in English language proficiency.

This module aims to enable you to participate in and practice independent learning tasks for deeper thought and investigation as needed for Higher Academic pursuits. You will participate in a Socratic Discussion based around Conspiracy Theories and Source Checking to encourage presentation and debating skills. You will be encouraged to invest in strategies that will deepen understanding and interpretation of processes, motives, argument, rationale, credibility, and possibilities which will then be applicable to a range of studies. You will also undertake research, based on an issue related to your degree programme, to review the main points of examining an argument in depth. You will then learn to create a personal response that analyses the content of the issue under study.

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Ethics is all about making decisions based on what you consider to be correct and not correct which is a discipline that is fundamental for students in higher education. Within this module, you will discuss the complexity of ethical theory and will investigate the status of several major ethical theories and claims and consider some practical ethical issues which are impacted by these theories. You will be encouraged to use critical thinking and research to discuss descriptive, normative, and analytic approaches to ethical problems and you will also look at how ethics is applied within the humanities, technology, business, medical and legal contexts.

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In this module you will address social perceptions and commonly held beliefs or ideas held across Western cultures in response to a series of topics. Understanding and discussing these areas will help to provide you with the transferrable skills needed for university and beyond. This module will assess your ability to grasp a variety of typical responses and critically think, respond, and debate about contradictory approaches to an idea. It will integrate different thinkers (historical and current), media and communications influences, and perspectives on the topic for a given week.

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This module introduces the study of three creative arts subjects: creative writing, theatre and music. The module will combine the analysis of key texts, movements and leading practitioners in all three art forms, as well as providing ample opportunity for you to create your own work, both individually and collaboratively.

For the creative writing element, you will study contemporary short fiction, including flash fiction, poetry and playwriting, to produce their own work. For theatre, you will analyse and workshop contemporary play scripts, as well as your own playwriting. Workshopping will introduce you to the language and conventions of theatre, the various roles that contribute to a production, and ideas around collaboration and working as part of a group.You will examine key movements in popular music since the 1950s and explore how popular music is developing today.

The module will include visits to the theatre, concerts and museums.

In this module, you will have the opportunity to confirm your independent areas of interest through a final Performance Project. You will be able to apply your understanding and knowledge acquired from the previous module. You will hone and develop the skills and techniques relevant to your particular fields of interest and create work that communicates, via presentation, your intentions for progressing into one of the prescribed undergraduate degree pathways at Anglia Ruskin University.

Through research and investigation, you will be guided towards formulating and developing a self-initiated Collaborative Performance, based on a creative design brief. This will clearly identify and explore aspects of your intended progression route, e.g. writing, acting, directing, filming, editing, or music production. This final major project will give you the opportunity for in-depth research and investigation, emphasize the feasibility of a specific topic, and help you focus on extensive research and analysis, problem-solving, idea generation/formulation of an independent response, and creative development—leading to a final performance.