COSM 2 “Creative Professionals and Sustainability” is a 5 ECTS course. The aim of the course is to provide the conditions, content and inspiration to enable participants to recognise, adapt and strengthen their individual role as cultural and creative sector (CCS) professionals in supporting all kinds of attempts to make our life on earth more sustainable, ethical, responsible or balanced – in environmental, social, economic and cultural terms.
Content
- The focused view (the micro-level) on culture and sustainability: the perspective of individual CCS (Cultural and Creative Sectors) professional.
- Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability.
- Local communities, sustainability, and cultural production.
- Festivals and values. Creative tourism and sustainability.
- Sustainability and the nature of Cultural Projects and Creative Processes.
- Sustainable lifestyles and aesthetic values. Creative professionals as mediators of the change.
Evaluation
The only number of ECTS delivered in this course is 5 [or 0] (there are no partial numbers available).
The course aim is to activate at least few different streams of students’ activity regarding culture & sustainability values: interaction, cooperation, reflection, written argumentation and dialogue in conversation. That is why we propose a combination of 3 complementary final assignments (A + B + C = 5 ECTS).
A. Teamwork
Every student becomes a member of one of the two teams and meets every webinar with teammates (a part of every webinar is provided as a teamwork virtual space [breakout room]/time. The team is discussing 2 texts every meeting, the texts are given in advance to two presenters who are preselected and who are responsible to make a brief summary of texts given (highlighting the best, most inspiring and the most controversial fragments of concepts). Every student need to have a role in team (presenter, reporter, final report co-presenter). The ’reporter’ who is selected in the beginning of each teamwork meeting and who is in charge of making notes from discussion of the team and later, at the final part of the webinar, presenting conclusion to the forum of both teams.
The final meeting (webinar 4) is the time of presenting the summary of teams meetings. All students, who were not having a chance to be reporters or presenters are responsible to provide a final wrap up of the content that particular team members learned through the process of reading and discussing texts related to their title topic.
The groups are:
A) Festivals, cultural entrepreneurship and sustainability values
B) Local communities, NGOs and artists’ practice – culture & sustainability values
[ECTS: 2; Grading scale: 1-5]
B. Final individual conversation with the teacher based on the course content
This is delivered as 10 minutes final conversation of individual student with the course teacher as students’ answers to 3 questions: 1) student’s reflection on the one freely selected course topic / guest lecture content; 2) student’s short reflection on the academic text or video material of her/his choice – freely selected by student from the materials given with the course (on the hoodle platform); 3) student’s reflection of the prospects of the course content in her/his future practice, it’s impact on student’s future career; [ECTS: 1; Grading scale: passed/failed]
C. Written 3-5 p. course topic related short essay (based on literature or case study description) delivered by individual student [ECTS: 2; Grading scale: 1-5]
COSM 1 and COSM 2
COSM is the educational module of two courses (2 x 5 ECTS) focused on cultural management and organisational change regarding wide range of sustainability values. The idea behind the COSM is exploring and sharing the way we undo the unsustainable in cultural management, with all the respect to the creative processes, projects and realities that used to be and in fact continuously are unsustainable in its core.
The aim of the course COSM 1: Culture, Organisation and Sustainability 5 ECTS is is to provide the conditions, content and inspiration to enable participants to gain an international and cross-sectoral perspective on the core theme. It’s a safe space to question the answers and offer solutions to the role of creative sector organisations and cultural professionals in balancing their ecosystems. The study period of the COSM 1 is 11.09.2025-31.12.2025. The registration period has started 1 May 2025 at 8.00 (UTC+3) and ends 28.08.2025 at 23.59 (UTC+3).
COSM is the unique chance to:
1) get the international, cross-sectorial, and cross-disciplinary perspective on the sustainability values oriented cultural management and to rediscover it’s meaning in collaborative spirit
2) join the team of people exploring sustainability-oriented solutions with experts, cultural managers, and cultural producers in their organizational and entrepreneurial contexts, developing sustainability management rooted in the core of humanities and arts as academic, applied disciplines of science and practice
3) use safe space for questioning the answers regarding cultural organizations and cultural professionals’ role in balancing their ecosystems, redefining their way of narrating what they (un)do, with what tools or methods, and how they are impacting their local communities
4) be the part of regular webinars and discussions with international & regional experts and practitioners focused on culture & sustainability, to strengthen sustainability values-oriented practices of leaders and employees of culture, art & heritage organisations’, as well as culture & arts entrepreneurs and NGO’s members
5) take part in the courses’ activities and assignments that are facilitating several dimensions of your potential: interaction, cooperation, reflection, written argumentation and dialogue in conversation, all aiming to have effective role of cultural managers in supporting all types of attempts to make our cultural ecosystems and our life more sustainable, ethical, responsible, or balanced – in environmental, social, and economic sense.
How to Register for Open UAS Studies
- Familiarise yourself with Open UAS registration instructions and cancellation terms. Read the descriptions and possible prerequisites of the courses you are interested in.
- Humak’s Open UAS studies are only available for students who have Finnish personal identity code.
- Register to the web store, choose a discount if applicable.
- Purchase courses from the web store during the registration period.
- Provide your personal information and a discount certificate if you have one via the personal information form. You can also find the form from the web store after your purchase. NB! Registration cannot be processed without the personal information form.
- Registrations are processed within 10 working days.
- You’ve secured your place to study! (If previous studies are a prerequisite for the studies, the place will be confirmed when the fulfillment of the requirements has been checked.)
- Once your registration has been processed, you will get instructions via email on how to activate your Humak credentials and how to log in to the Hoodle learning environment. Course specific instructions can be found on Hoodle when the course begins.
- You must use your Humak email in your studies.
