AY5021:06
Key Concepts in Heritage Studies
Townsville
Inadmissable Subject Combination: AY5004
20 lectures, 10 hours seminars, 20 hours workshops. June intensive mode.
Available to students who have completed a BA(Hons) or a BSocSc(Hons) in anthropology or archaeology or a BSc(Hons) in archaeology or other equivalent qualification approved by the Executive Dean on advice from the Head of School. Also available to all students enrolled in the Postgraduate Certificate of Cultural Heritage Studies, Postgraduate Diploma of Cultural Heritage Studies or Master of Cultural Heritage Studies.
Staff:
To be advised.
This subject critically evaluates a range of concepts used in heritage management and applied research in anthropology and archaeology. Apart from ‘heritage’ itself, such concepts include ‘culture’ and ‘society’, ‘custom’ and ‘tradition’, ‘sites’ and ‘cultural landscapes’, ‘management’ and ‘development’, ‘cultural resource’ and ‘environment’ etc.
Evaluation of the meanings ascribed to these key concepts is important as they are used in legislation, government and international policy, in the media and in the expression of social and cultural identities. This subject will focus on the way in which these meanings have been historically and politically produced and their current usage in heritage practice.
Learning Objectives:
- identify and outline the historical production and reproduction of a number of key terms and concepts;
- become conversant with the complexity of the concept of cultural heritage and other lay terms;
- appreciation of the varied use and meanings of these terms in a range of social contexts;
- understand the implications of these concepts as used by professionals in heritage studies.
Assessment by practical exercises in workshops (40%); written assignments (60%).
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