About the project
Course programme: Sound Arts
Changemakers involved: Cassia Clarke (LCC Changemaker 2020-2025)
Context
‘Re-approval helps to ensure that all our courses remain innovative, engaging, relevant and rewarding for both current and future students at LCC.’
‘The aim of validation is to ensure the most innovative and industry-focused courses possible are provided across the College.’
Guide to Validation, London College of Communication, UAL
LCC Changemakers play a key role in course reapprovals and validations by providing feedback across all courses within LCC, aligning with UAL strategies to elevate course quality and impact. Tangibly, among our goals, we:
- ensure there is enough space for racial and social justice is provided
- look for diversity in the reading lists
- examine the words used in the handbooks
Course-specific example
‘This unit provides experience of a range of practical and conceptual skills relevant to working in professional sonic contexts and introduces industry standard techniques and technologies including introductory certified software training.’
From BA (Hons) Sound Arts
Unit Assignment: Sonic Doing and Thinking
LCC Changemaker questions
- Who defines ‘industry standard?’
- Where do these techniques and technologies originate?
- Is there / or can there be a histories and theories component to unpack this terminology?
- How does this impact international students who study at UAL and return home after graduation?
Conclusion: student-centred learning
Within the context and space of academia, staff must consider the different of understanding of students (home and international) comprising the courses cohorts need to be considered throughout, always.
Students can quickly learn the industry terminology later.
