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GCST6901: Cultural Policy

2025 unit information

This unit examines cultural policy across a range of sectors such as museums and heritage, the arts, media, and the cultural industries. It will provide theoretical perspectives and practical insight into policy formation processes in Australia and internationally. The multiple actors and rationales that shape policy and ground claims for its relevance amid social change and cultural diversity are considered. Students learn how to analyse policies in relation to the institutional, social and political contexts of their emergence.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Arts and Social Sciences

Study level Postgraduate
Academic unit Gender and Cultural Studies
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. identify and critically assess theoretical perspectives on cultural policy
  • LO2. analyse cultural policies in relation to the institutional, cultural and political contexts of their emergence
  • LO3. comprehend the range of actors, rationales and factors that bear upon processes of policy formation, implementation and evaluation
  • LO4. assess the relationships between policy, social change and cultural diversity
  • LO5. clearly express well-informed knowledge of cultural policy through written and verbal forms of academic communication.

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2024
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2025
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2020
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2021
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2021
Normal day Remote
Semester 1 2022
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2022
Normal day Remote
Semester 2 2023
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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