When you have completed the course, you should be familiar with:

  1. key policies related to the heritage sector, along with the positive and negative impacts of those policies on preservation and conservation.
  2. how the broader cultural policy environment at each government level has shaped heritage policy.
  3. outstanding or emerging issues for the heritage sector that need to be addressed at the policy level.
  4. the role that is played, and/or should be played, by the state in making cultural policy in Canada.
  5. how federal policy shapes cultural institutions and practices.
  6. social, industrial, political, economic, and technological issues that affect cultural institutions.
  7. how policy strategies address the social, industrial, political, economic, and technological issues that affect cultural institutions.