Cultural and Creative Industries

2025/2026

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

School of Linguistics

Course type:

Elective course

When:

3 year, 4 module

Instructor

Shvedova, Elena

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Main objective of this course is to trace the development of the Cultural and Creative Industries as an idea and as concept and to identify the key points of changes within it in relations with contemporary digital connected world. Another important task of this course is to provide the deep understanding of the difference between cultural and symbolic meaning products (such as films, recorded music, book and periodicals, online media content etc) and other kind of goods.

Learning Objectives

• Main objective of this course is to trace the development of the Cultural and Creative Industries as an idea and as concept and to identify the key points of changes within it in relations with contemporary digital connected world.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Understand main theoretical concepts of creative industries
• Be able to characterize the basic concepts and terms of the creative industry

Course Contents

• Cultural and Creative Industries

Assessment Elements

• Research project
  Individual written research project ready for publication in a science journal, at least 60,000 typographical units
• test
• Online course

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 4th module
  0.7 * Online course + 0.2 * Research project + 0.1 * test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Furnari, S. (2016). Candace Jones, Mark Lorenzen, and Jonathan Sapsed, eds.: The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries. Administrative Science Quarterly, 61(3), NP29-NP32. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839216655772

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Flew, T., & Cunningham, S. (2010). Creative Industries after the First Decade of Debate. Information Society, 26(2), 113–123. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972240903562753

Authors

• DYACHKOVA ANNA EVGENEVNA