Heritage Resources Management (HERM) 301
Introduction to Heritage Resources Management (Revision 1)
Revision 1 is closed for registrations, replaced by current version
Delivery Mode: Individualized study online
Credits: 3
Area of Study: Humanities
Prerequisite: None
Precluded Course: HERM 501. (HERM 301 may not be taken for credit by students who have obtained credit for HERM 501. Also, students who complete HERM 301 will not be eligible to register in HERM 501).
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Heritage Resources Management Home Page
HERM 301 is not available for challenge.
Overview
HERM 301: Introduction to Heritage Resources Management introduces students to heritage resources management and creates a base for further study of the contemporary heritage field. Students study types of practice and current and emerging issues, as well as the social context, controversies, ethical questions and general concerns that characterize efforts in heritage preservation and the work carried out in museums, archives, historic places and interpretive centres. Within this theoretical and applied framework, students will begin to develop approaches and skills in administration, collecting, conservation and preservation, interpretation, audience development and visitor services.
Outline
- Unit 1: Heritage Resources Management
- Unit 2: Types of Practice: Museums and Archives
- Unit 3: Types of Practice: Historic Places Management
- Unit 4: Structuring Practice: Governance and Ethics
- Unit 5: Justifying Heritage Through Tourism
- Unit 6: Who Controls the Past?
- Unit 7: What to Keep and Why: Determining Heritage Significance
- Unit 8: Conservation
- Unit 9: Approaches to Heritage Education
- Unit 10: Interpretive Programming
Evaluation
To receive credit in HERM 301, you must complete all the assignments and achieve a minimum course composite grade of “D” (50 percent). The chart below summarizes the course activities and the credit weight associated with each assignment.
Assign. 1 Experiential Diary | Assign. 2 Essay on Readings | Assign. 3 Research Essay | Assign. 4 Critical Review of an Online Exhibition | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
15% | 20% | 40% | 25% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Course Materials
Textbooks
The Standard Practices Handbook for Museums, 2nd ed. Edmonton: Alberta Museums Association, 2001.
Important note: The Standard Practices Handbook will be used in other courses in the Heritage Resources Management Program. You must keep your copy of this book if you intend to take other courses in the program.
In Time and Place. Master Plan 2005. Edmonton: Alberta Community Development, 2005.
Other Materials
The course includes a reading file.
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.
Opened in Revision 1, January 8, 2008.