Postgraduate Diploma in Community Cultural Development Practice
Course descriptionThe Postgraduate Diploma in Community Cultural Development Practice aims to address increasing work opportunities in the field of community cultural development (CCD) and cross-sectoral community based arts practice.
The course aims to provide an intensive learning experience for artists/animateurs from all art forms, who have a commitment to social justice and to the role of art as a process for intervention.
The course responds to the field’s expressed training needs, and will incorporate studies in a creative paradigm incorporating CCD practice, context, process and theory, and specifically aim to engage artists/animateurs experientially through the development of practical, theoretical and management skill, vital to career development in this field.
The objectives of this course are:
• to produce artists/animateurs with a high degree of proficiency in CCD process and practice;
• to produce artists/animateurs who have a comprehensive knowledge of working with culturally/linguistically/regionally diverse communities;
• to produce artists/animateurs with effective project development, management and evaluation skills;
• to equip artists/animateurs with the necessary project management skills to manage their own career, project or programs of community-based arts practice;
• to produce artists/animateurs who can contribute to the growing field of CCD research, critical analysis and ‘best practice’;
• to provide artists/animateurs with a recognised postgraduate qualification in CCD;
• to develop a new generation of CCD cross-sectoral practitioners;
• to promote critical reflection on the role of the professional artist/animateurs working in a CCD context the local and global community;
• to foster in artists/animateurs a spirit of inquiry, creativity and initiative to progress the field of knowledge in CCD; and
• to prepare artists/animateurs for Master’s Degree pathway in CCD.
Structure
Subjects by Year
Year 1
• 754-801 - Theoretical Frameworks
• 754-802 - Cultural Development Policy Paradigm
• 754-803 - Innovative New Work
• 754-804 - Brokering Cross-Sectoral Partnerships
• 754-805 - Praxis in Community Cultural Development
• 754-806 - Practicum
• 754-807 - Research Project (CCD)