Course Description

Creative work has an uneasy relationship with labour. Careers in the arts, culture, and media industries are increasingly seen as a way for individual workers to find personal fulfillment and as a means of reinvigorating post-industrial economies. But is this necessarily the case? This graduate seminar explores developments in creative work in contemporary society through a critical examination of scholarship on culture, creativity, and labour. Students will also gain an understanding and appreciation for research creation as a method to further explore creative work.

This course includes a research creation component. Students will gain an understanding and appreciation for research creation as a methodology through a series of workshops addressing a range of creative methods. Students will produce a research creation project as a key course deliverable.