This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
The module will allow students to acquire knowledge and critical understanding of the principles related to heritage sites conservation and management. Students will learn about the principles of protecting, listing and conserving heritage, as well as about value-led management of heritage, with the full participation of local populations. Students will learn about drafting management and tourism plans, as well about integrating heritage within development strategies. As part of their internship, each student will devise a special project in consultation with the mentor and the module convenor. Precise objectives and skills to be learnt will be recorded and tracked regularly. Students will keep a weekly log of their activities. The placement may take place either as a block during the Easter vacation of Stage 2 or 3, or at regular intervals over the Autumn and Spring terms
Total Contact Hours: 40
Total Hours on Internship: 70
Total Private Study Hours: 190
Total Study Hours: 300
Main assessment methods:
• Essay (3,000 words) – 30%
• Blog (one entry for each placement day, up to a maximum of 250 words per entry) – 20%
• Presentation 1 (10 minutes) – 7%
• Presentation 2 (20 minutes) – 13%
• Report (2,500 words) – 30%
Reassessment methods:
• 100% Coursework (2,500 words)
Indicative Reading List
Bandarin, F. and Van Oers, R. (2012). The Historic Urban Landscape. Wiley-Blackwell
Harrison, R. (1994). Manual of Heritage Management. Butterworth-Heinemann
Leask, A. and Fyall, A. (eds) (2006). Managing World Heritage Sites. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann
Smith, L., (2006). Uses of Heritage. London: Routledge
Sørensen, M. L. S. & Carman, J. (eds) (2009). Heritage Studies: Methods and Approaches. London: Routledge
Spenceley, A. (ed) (2008). Responsible Tourism. Critical issues for Conservation and Development. London: Earthscan
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Demonstrate a systematic understanding of the well-established principles of heritage sites conservation and management and a detailed knowledge of the way in which those principles have developed;
2 Demonstrate the ability to deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within a discipline, in the context of academia and outside;
3 Display a systematic and conceptual understanding of the main methods of enquiry on different topics related to the basic conservation and management of sites, and ability to evaluate critically the appropriateness of these different approaches to solving problems;
4 Show an in-depth appreciation of the limits of their knowledge, in particular of their biases, and how these influence their analyses and interpretation of heritage sites and decisions related to their conservation and management.
The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Demonstrate qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment;
2 Demonstrate the ability to communicate information, ideas, problems, and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences;
3 Display the learning ability needed to undertake appropriate further training of professional or equivalent nature.
4 Display qualities and transferable skills necessary for decision-making in complex and unpredictable contexts;
5 Demonstrate the ability to exercise initiative and personal responsibility.
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