Global Cultural Heritage

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• key issues and debates within cultural heritage studies;
• global frameworks for the protection of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
• the nature and value of cultural heritage in various global contexts;
• theoretical and ethical frameworks within cultural heritage studies;
• cultural heritage and the construction of identity;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply and develop key skills in critical thinking, analysis, information-handling and written communication.
• evaluate evidence on paper or in the field;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critique and present your own evaluation of key issues relating to cultural heritage;
• assimilate and synthesize theories and approaches relating to cultural heritage;
• apply appropriate theoretical frameworks and practical approaches to relevant debates.

What is cultural heritage and why value it?; global and local frameworks for the protection of tangible and intangible cultural heritage; cultural heritage and identity; cultural heritage and ethics; cultural heritage, economics and globalization; case studies in tangible and intangible cultural heritage; interpretation and presentation of cultural heritage.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures

Seminars

Film showings

Visit to heritage sites

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Ireland, T. and Schofield, J. (2015). The ethics of cultural heritage.. New York: Springer.

Howard, P. (2003). Heritage: management, interpretation, identity. A&C Black.

Logan, W., Craith, M.N. and Kockel, U. eds., ( 2015). A companion to heritage studies (Vol. 28). John Wiley & Sons.

Assessment strategy

Formative

This module has been designed around providing substantial amounts of formative feedback within the classroom environment through the provision of student-led seminars and formative presentations. This will allow students from a diverse range of backgrounds to explore their personal and/or regional interests in cultural heritage, and to receive formative feedback and peer review in advance of the summative assessed seminar.

Summative

There are two assessed essays which will be staggered within the module to allow feedback from the first to inform and aid the student in the writing of the second.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External