Postgraduate Course: Understanding Heritage (Online) (SCET11029)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course encourages students to critically examine competing conceptualisations of heritage, in Scotland and internationally. |
| Course description |
1. Concepts of heritage - selection, representation and conceptualizing the past
2. Who's heritage? - narratives of the everyday
3. Heritage as industry - commercialising culture
4. Material culture and understanding museology
5. UNESCO, world heritage, and ICH.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students should have
* a solid understanding of competing conceptualisations of heritage
* a sound empirical knowledge of the provision and consumption of heritage within Scotland
* an appreciation of the politics of heritage within a Scottish and international context
* close familiarity with the concept of world heritage and the developing UNESCO concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)
* a base level knowledge of museums' theory and the concept of objects as evidence
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Reading List
Key online resources
www.tobarandualchais.co.uk
www.oraltradition.org
http://www.siefhome.org/
www.scran.ac.uk
http://www.afsnet.org/
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/
Key electronic journals:
Bealoideas http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=bealoideas
Ethnomusicology http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/ethnomusicology/about.html
Folklore http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=folklore
Folk Music Journal http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=folkmusij
Journal of American Folklore http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jaf/
Journal of Folklore Research http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jfolkrese&
International Journal of Intangible Heritage http://www.ijih.org/mainMgr.ijih?cmd=mainPageView
Review of Scottish Culture (copyright held by University of Edinburgh, not yet available digitally, and selected articles to be scanned and made available)
Scottish Studies (not yet available digitally but copyright owned by University of Edinburgh, and selected articles to be scanned and made available) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
* Critical engagement with heritage websites
* Oral and written communication
* Interpretation of visual sources |
| Keywords | UH |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Gary West
Tel: (0131 6)50 4151
Email: Gary.West@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Alan Binnie
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
Email: Alan.Binnie@ed.ac.uk |
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