ARTS ECONOMICS II

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
ARTS ECONOMICS II
Course code
EM3A01 (AF:318948 AR:171386)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6 out of 12 of ARTS ECONOMICS
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
SECS-P/03
Period
4th Term
Course year
1
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The course ARTS ECONOMICS (12 credits) aims to introduce and acquaint students with fundamental concepts, issues, tools and recent trends of economics applied to the arts, culture and creative industries, to help students to develop and adapt an economic reasoning to their related research and professional interests and activities.

The course ARTS ECONOMICS is composed of two modules, ARTS ECONOMICS I (6 credits) and ARTS ECONOMICS II (6 credits), that ideally complement each other, where ARTS ECONOMICS I is propaedeutic to ARTS ECONOMICS II.

In particular, the second module ARTS ECONOMICS II will deepen topics and tools dealt with in ARTS ECONOMICS I in the light of recent international scientific research, current field practice and real case studies.
On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

- Understand, apply and deal with fundamental concepts, issues and recent trends of economics applied to the arts, culture and creative industries.

- Develop and adapt an economic reasoning and practice to their applied research and professional interests and activities in the arts and cultural sector in both for-profit and nonprofit settings.
ARTS ECONOMICS I and II are a course of 12 credits.
Main topics include:

-The arts and the market, supply and demand.
- Financing the arts, public subsidies and private support.
- Cultural and creative sectors, including: cultural heritage, the art market, creative industries, etc.
- Cultural firms, the artist, and labour market in the cultural and creative sector.
- The role of art, culture and creative industries in the local economy.
- Etc.
Texts, lectures slides, assigned papers and other course material will be distributed and referred to in moodle.
Group+individual written assignment and an individual oral presentation (videoconference or live). Please refer to moodle for full details.
Lectures, class discussions, individual readings and real case studies.
English
Course language: English.
written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Circular economy, innovation, work" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 27/05/2020