KUMA010 Cultural Heritage and its Processes (5 cr)

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Study level:
Intermediate studies
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
Finnish
Responsible organisation:
Department of History and Ethnology
Curriculum periods:
2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028

Description

The course examines cultural heritage as an academic concept and phenomenon in everyday life. It also covers the cultural and societal processes influencing cultural heritage.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student will:

  • be familiar with cultural heritage as a concept and as a phenomenon
  • recognise how the concept and phenomenon of cultural heritage is connected to academic, cultural and social issues and
  • understand the different contexts, motivations and objectives related to cultural heritage work and its processes.

Additional information

Independent work through a written assignement. Contact teaching may be organized in some years.

Study materials

The course coordinator will refer students to learning material. For the book exam, three works are selected from the following list:

Literature

  • Harrison, Rodney 2013: Heritage Critical Approaches.
  • Tuomi-Nikula, Outi ym. (toim.) 2013: Mitä on kulttuuriperintö?
  • Robertson, Iain (ed.) 2012: Heritage from Below. Heritage, Culture and Identity. Saatavana<br />elektronisena julkaisuna.
  • Sather-Wagstaff, Joy 2011: Heritage That Hurts. Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September<br />11. Saatavana elektronisena julkaisuna.
  • Smith, Laurajane 2006: Uses of Heritage.

Completion methods

Method 1

Description:
For independent completion, the student should choose three books from the list.
Evaluation criteria:
The grading scale in all completion modes will be numerical: 0-5. The grade will be based on the evaluation of the assignments that measure the extent to which the learning goals have been achieved. In courses organized in the form of contact teaching, completion requires 80% attendance. For independent learning, completion of the unit requires that written assignments are completed and approved by the instructor in charge.
Select all marked parts

Method 2

Description:
Contact teaching may be organized in some years.
Evaluation criteria:
The grading scale in all completion modes will be numerical: 0-5. The grade will be based on the evaluation of the assignments that measure the extent to which the learning goals have been achieved. In courses organized in the form of contact teaching, completion requires 80% attendance. For independent learning, completion of the unit requires that written assignments are completed and approved by the instructor in charge.
Select all marked parts
Parts of the completion methods
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Independent study (5 cr)

Type:
Independent study
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
Finnish

Teaching

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Teaching (5 cr)

Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
Finnish
No published teaching