CV3001 - Creative Arts In Industry

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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This subject will introduce students to business planning, marketing, financial management and the statutory requirements necessary to successfully operate a small business in the creative arts industries. Topics to be covered include: researching and developing a business plan; budgeting; pricing; copyright; contracts; taxation requirements; employing staff and models; banking and finance; marketing and promotion; grant writing; basic bookkeeping and insurance requirements/obligations.

Learning Outcomes

• understand the role of a small business manager with particular reference to managerial, legal, contract, staffing and statutory obligations;
• acquire a knowledge of financial matters in the arts industry and display an understanding of budgeting, business planning and grant writing;
• acquire the knowledge to be able to develop an understanding of the costs of running a business to allow production of price lists and quotations for projects;
• gain an understanding of marketing and promoting a small business or individual artist/performer within the creative arts industries.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• The ability to calculate, produce, interpret and communicate numerical information;
• The ability to access and employ online technologies effectively;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to use a variety of media and methods to retrieve, analyse, evaluate, organise and present information;
• The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

GA3110 or PT3320 or MU2431

Availabilities
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Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coordinator:	Professor Ryan Daniel
Lecturer:	jc127616.
Contact hours:	26 hours
Assessment:	(30%); (20%); (50%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.