COSM 3: Cultural Management and Dimensions of Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Economic (5 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

Students are able to acknowledge, adapt and strengthen their role as cultural managers in supporting the general sustainability movement, impacting people’s and industries’ pro-ecological behaviours, assisting all types of attempts to make our life on Earth more sustainable, ethical, responsible or balanced – in environmental, social and economic sense.

Content (course unit)

- Beyond prepositions, assumptions and contradictions. Culture in, for or as sustainability - Environmental and urban planning dimensions of sustainability and the role of cultural ecosystems - Cultural tourism and sustainability - Social dimensions of sustainability, cultural audiences and culture and arts professionals - Public health policies and cultural organisations – the pandemic lesson - Inter-generational aspect of sustainability – cultural management applications - Economic sustainability through cultural management lenses – global and local perspective - Cultural matters on the edge of protection and free access, conservation and change

Assessment scale

0-5

Further information

COSM 3: Cultural Management and 3 Dimensions of the Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Economice is the 3rd course of the module on cultural management and sustainability values, engaging the expertise from abovementioned research areas of sustainability. It’s aim is to acknowledge, adapt and strengthen the role of cultural managers in supporting the general sustainability movement, impacting people’s and industries’ pro-ecological behaviours, assisting all types of attempts to make our life more sustainable, ethical, responsible or balanced – in environmental, social and economic sense. And, finally this part of the module is also questioning the answers regarding cultural organizations and cultural professionals’ role in balancing their cultural ecosystems.