1. Develop, design and deliver a collaborative project proposal.
Application

2. Construct and digitally design your personal profile, identifying and articulating your strengths, transferable and subject specific skills and intended career aims and destinations.
Communication

3. Develop, design and deliver a project funding business plan for an approved body.
Knowledge and Understanding

4. Critically evaluate how your work-based learning has impacted on your own development as a creative theatre practitioner and enhanced your entrepreneurial skills and empowered your employability potential. Analysis and Reflection

Self- promotion material: digital recording, cv and web page and social media sites. LO 2
Creative Project Pitch, Business plan and funding application. LO 1 and 3
Industry Placement/internship and oral reflection. LO 4

Entrepreneurship, Employability and Enterprise

During this industry focused module, you will be encouraged to articulate your understanding of yourself as a developing theatre artist/practitioner and investigate potential future professional networks, approaches and pathways for your chosen career.

Work -based learning: Placement/ Internships (virtual or practical)

In this module you will undertake a placement or internship within the Cultural and Creative Industries in your chosen area of specialism. It is intended that from acceptance onto the MA programme you will take responsibility for arranging your work- based learning experience. Guidance and support for this will be given by University staff.

The choice and location of your placement will be negotiated with your course leader, mentor and placement provider. You will agree a learning contract in which the aims, objectives and outcomes for your placement/internship will be determined. You will be asked to complete the universities ethics form, placement record form health and safety checklist, and any risk assessments required. You will be expected to keep a digital Journal recording your experience.
At the end of your placement you will be asked to reflect upon and appraise your contribution and articulate how your skills, knowledge and understanding has been enhanced and empowered through your experience in the professional workplace.

To help inform and contextualise your placement you will engage with a series of Industry centred masterclasses, seminars and workshops. These will be designed and delivered by staff from the Be -Inspired Team at Staffordshire University (biSU), colleagues from Careers and Employment Partnerships, Departmental staff and professional practitioners and employers from the Creative Industries.

Areas covered will include:

• The financial, administrative and legal aspects of forming a professional theatre company in the UK.
• The role of the British Arts Council: funding opportunities and grant applications (public and private sector).
• Digital Marketing, market analysis and tendering.
Project Proposals and Creative Pitches.
Accounting and Business plans.
Current industry concerns and debates concerning casting, intimacy training, the ethics of rehearsal room and production environments, health and safety, risk assessment and inclusive practices.
Working as a freelancer/self-employment: professional contracts, rates of pay, tax and accounts, working guidelines and conditions, Equity guidelines and TMA support.
Networking and self- promotion: subject specific skills, transferable skills and marketing.
Use of social media and digital opportunities (Web pages, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tic Tock etc).
Health and safety.

During the learning for the above you will be asked to complete a series of short tasks, reports, blogs and vlogs.

The module will be taught through blended learning, via a series of masterclasses, seminars, tutorials, workshops.

These will be delivered by Bi inspired, staff engaged in careers, employability, industry professionals and departmental staff. These will include the Project Officer Employer partnerships, School’s Careers Relation Manager, Academic Partnerships Manager and nominated career’s coaches.

It is intended that the delivery of the above will help inform your placement/ internship and help you to establish the aims of your business plan and any expectations and needs of your employer.

You will be asked to complete a series of authentic/real world industry assessments; digital self- promotional material and
critically review your workplace experience and evaluate the impact this and the other learning activities on the module have impacted upon your personal development, professional values, and future career action plans.

The Library Home Page [which includes a Summon search box along with other resources]
https://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/libraryresources

Useful websites include:

https://www.ratemyplacement.co.uk/
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/jobs-and-work-experience/work-experience-and-internships/work-placements
https://www.allaboutcareers.com/careers-advice/work-placements/what-is-a-placement
https://www.staffs.ac.uk/students/careers/work-experience

For self-promotion https://www.linkedin.com/learning

The Course tutors will recommend further reading during tutorials

Tutorial and seminar space.
Presentation facilities for formal presentations.
University Library
IT facilities
Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment will support this module where relevant.
Online and E learning resources including:
Drama on line - https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/v
BBC Box of Broadcasts - https://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/libraryresources