MN4103 Creativity in Context Enterprise Project

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

20

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 10

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Planned timetable

To be confirmed

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Module coordinator

Dr A M Brown

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Module Staff

Dr Anna Brown and Dr Benet Reid

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Module description

Creativity, Collaboration and Context explores the central tenets of creativity, and helps students understand how creativity can be applied collaboratively in a wide range of organisational contexts. Students taking the module will be supported to identify, define and engage with real world problems through theory and practice. By exploring and developing their own creative capacities— including managing and dealing with uncertainty, problem setting and solving, and collaborative working—students will gain a nuanced appreciation of the contested roles and potential of creativity in relation to progressive innovation, inclusion, equality and social good. Central to the ethos of the module is the normalisation of creative process, and challenge to the privileging and mystification of the creative act. Correspondingly, learning from failure, collaborative problem solving, and lively critically reflexive dialogue are the key pedagogic themes that run throughout.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS MN2002

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

3 Hour combined Lecture and Seminar (x 11 weeks) 4x optional office hours (x11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

77

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

130

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • By the end of this module, students will be able to define and describe creativity as process, as distinct from accounts of creativity as a product, output and commodity.
  • By the end of this module, students will be able to evaluate the role of creativity and how it manifests and may be enacted in diverse organisational and structural contexts.
  • By the end of this module, students will be able to critically discuss the social impacts of creativity and creative interventions in organisational settings.
  • By the end of this module, students will be able to develop creative interventions in response to societal and organisational issues
  • By the end of this module, students will be able to reflect on creative process to appraise the role of creativity in organisational life.