Comparative International Models of Cultural Policy
General Information
Estimated learning time
Competences / Learning outcomes
Learning objectives
Teaching blocks
Teaching methods and general organization
Official assessment of learning outcomes
Reading and study resources
General Information
| Course unit name | Comparative International Models of Cultural Policy |
| Course unit code | 570401 |
| Academic year | 2024/2025 |
| Coordinator | Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando |
| Department | Department of Sociology |
| Credits | 5 |
| Single program | S |
Estimated learning time
| Activities | Type of training | Hours | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face-to-face and/or online activities | 45 | ||
| - Lecture | Face-to-face | 45 | |
| Supervised project | 40 | ||
| Independent learning | 40 |
Competences / Learning outcomes to be gained during study
- • Capacity to analyse the economic, political, personal, social and cultural phenomena that drive the creation, production, diffusion, consumption and appropriation of cultural products in order to propose specific intervention plans.
• Capacity to identify and assess procedures and strategies used to gather, organize and critically analyse information to plan and assess interventions based on previous knowledge.
• Capacity to take part in critical discussion of conclusions drawn from papers and technical/scientific reports in the field of cultural management in order to assess benchmark situations or intervention models.
• Capacity to design cultural management projects and practices in keeping with the principles of socio-cultural diversity and strategic management.
Teaching blocks
1. Introduction: society, culture and cultural policy
2. Cultural policy: emergence and development
3. Cultural policy discourses
4. Cultural policy systems: governance
5. Cultural policy systems: public expenditure
6. Territorial complexity of cultural policy: the Spanish case
7. Cultural industries: policies and programmes
8. Cultural facilities
9. The challenge of cultural diversity
10. Cultural diplomacy
11. Latin American models of cultural policy
12. Local cultural policy: the case of Barcelona
13. Regional cultural policy: the case of Catalonia
Teaching methods and general organization
Development of blocks I, II and IV of the programme basically includes: introductory lectures by the teaching staff, analysis of a series of texts, preparation and presentation of these texts by students and work on the database Compendium. Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe. This assignment is individual (written exercises) and also group work (class discussion).
Block III will have different guest lecturers and an emphasis is placed on debate.
Official assessment of learning outcomes
• Class attendance and participation is worth 20% of the final grade. A minimum of 80% of sessions must be attended to in order to be eligible. Otherwise, 0 points will be awarded. Attendance to less than 60% of the sessions produces an "Absent" grade in the continuous assessment procedure.
• A series of individual exercises on the Compendium database, worth 50%.
• A short individual assignment on one of the recommended readings, worth 30%.
Single assessment consists of a final examination. Students interested in this procedure must submit a written request to the lecturer with a copy to the Master’s coordinator before 15 February.
Students who formally request repeat assessment may do so during the 5 days after provisional final grades are posted in the Virtual Campus. Repeat assessment consists of a final examination on the whole contents of the subject.
Reading and study resources
RODRÍGUEZ MORATÓ, Arturo and Mariano MARTÍN ZAMORANO, eds. Cultural Policy in Ibero-America. London: Routledge, 2019.
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ANHEIER, HK and ISAR YI (eds), Cultural Policy and Globalization. The Cultures and Globalization Series 5. London: SAGE, 2012.
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BENNETT, T., 1998, Culture. A Reformer’s Science, Londres, Sage.
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BONET, Ll., NEGRIER, E., eds., 2007, La politique culturelle en Espagne, París, Karthala.
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DUBOIS, Vincent: La politique culturelle. Genèse d’une catégorie d’intervention publique. Paris, Belin, 2012.
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EVANS, Gr., 2001, Cultural Planning: An urban renaissance?, Londres, Routledge.
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FERNÁNDEZ PRADO, Emiliano: La política cultural: qué es y para qué sirve. Gijón,TREA,1991.
Disponible al CCUC/PUC
LEE, HK and LORRAINE L (2014) Cultural Policies in East Asia: Dynamics between the State, Arts and Cultural Industries, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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MILLER, T., YUDICE, G., 2004, Política cultural, Barcelona, Gedisa.
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PONGY, M., SAEZ, G., 1994, Politiques culturelles et régions en Europe. Paris, L´Harmattan.
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