Understanding Cultural and Heritage Values (11121.2)

This unit will focus on the management of culture and heritage and how this varies in different social, political and environmental contexts around the world. The unit will examine the underpinning philosophies and ethical implications of heritage and conservation practices, and an emphasis will be placed on understanding values based management, the Burra Charter, and the World Heritage and Intangible Heritage Conventions. Key themes will be ethics and community-based research, notions of authenticity, heritage as social action, tourism, and Indigenous rights. Students undertaking this unit will demonstrate their understanding of heritage and management processes by undertaking significance assessment, management and interpretation exercises and participate in practice-based decision-making.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Articulate the key components and methods of management processes for culture and heritage;
2. Identify and assess cultural heritage values within a contextual understanding of culture and society;
3. Identify and analyse the main ethical issues surrounding cultural heritage practice; and
4. Apply ethical approaches in cultural heritage practices and community-based research.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways

Prerequisites

Students must have completed 12 credit points.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.