2024
Introduction to Cultural Heritage
Name: Introduction to Cultural Heritage
Code: HIS14606L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
The UC is taught to the first year of the Degree Programme and has an introductory character. Therefore, it is intended to provide students with an overview of the main concepts and issues related to Cultural Heritage, in a perspective of deconstruction of common sense notions
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Learning objectives:
-Identify the relevance and know the criteria and procedures for assigning value within Cultural Heritage (CP).
- Identify the main institutions and legal framework of the Cultural Heritage at national and international level.
- Know different strategies for the preservation and enhancement of Cultural Heritage
- Recognise the links between Cultural Heritage, memory and identity.
- Recognize the importance of Cultural Heritage in contemporary societies.
Intellectual and professional skills:
- Development of cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis, and synthesis, applied to PC, namely through case studies related to the object of the UC.
- Generic identification of theories and models of analysis that support the knowledge in the field of PC.
- Ability to communicate in a clear, coherent and integrated way within multidisciplinary teams.
-Identify the relevance and know the criteria and procedures for assigning value within Cultural Heritage (CP).
- Identify the main institutions and legal framework of the Cultural Heritage at national and international level.
- Know different strategies for the preservation and enhancement of Cultural Heritage
- Recognise the links between Cultural Heritage, memory and identity.
- Recognize the importance of Cultural Heritage in contemporary societies.
Intellectual and professional skills:
- Development of cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis, and synthesis, applied to PC, namely through case studies related to the object of the UC.
- Generic identification of theories and models of analysis that support the knowledge in the field of PC.
- Ability to communicate in a clear, coherent and integrated way within multidisciplinary teams.
Contents
- From Monument to Cultural Heritage: genesis, concepts, and memorial policies, at national and international perspective.
- The Cultural Heritage: actors, institutions, and legal framework, at national and international perspective.
- Heritage as a social construction. Heritage categories and typologies - a field in permanent updating.
- Dynamics of value attribution and recognition: top-down and bottom-up processes.
- The Cultural Heritage and the communities - dynamics of participation and empowerment of populations.
- Strategies for enhancing and promoting Cultural Heritage.
- The life of Cultural Heritage: appropriations, reuses, renovations, ruins and creative destruction.
- The Cultural Heritage as a resource for the sustainability of territories and communities.
- The Cultural Heritage: actors, institutions, and legal framework, at national and international perspective.
- Heritage as a social construction. Heritage categories and typologies - a field in permanent updating.
- Dynamics of value attribution and recognition: top-down and bottom-up processes.
- The Cultural Heritage and the communities - dynamics of participation and empowerment of populations.
- Strategies for enhancing and promoting Cultural Heritage.
- The life of Cultural Heritage: appropriations, reuses, renovations, ruins and creative destruction.
- The Cultural Heritage as a resource for the sustainability of territories and communities.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical-practical classes in the classroom, text commentaries, case studies and study visits.
The evaluation can be done in the continuous evaluation system and in the examination system. In continuous evaluation will be performed a work with oral presentation and discussion of the same work and a frequency.
A. Frequency regime:
- Performance of a practical work defined between the student and the teacher and presentation and discussion of the work presented. (50%) +Frequency (50%)
OR
- Realization of two practical works defined between the student and the professor and presentation and discussion of them (50% +50%).
B. Exam:
Written exam on the subject taught (100%). If, and when, the teacher considers it appropriate the written examination may be accompanied by an oral examination (100%). In this case, the result of the exam regime will be (100%+100%)/2.
The evaluation can be done in the continuous evaluation system and in the examination system. In continuous evaluation will be performed a work with oral presentation and discussion of the same work and a frequency.
A. Frequency regime:
- Performance of a practical work defined between the student and the teacher and presentation and discussion of the work presented. (50%) +Frequency (50%)
OR
- Realization of two practical works defined between the student and the professor and presentation and discussion of them (50% +50%).
B. Exam:
Written exam on the subject taught (100%). If, and when, the teacher considers it appropriate the written examination may be accompanied by an oral examination (100%). In this case, the result of the exam regime will be (100%+100%)/2.
Teaching Staff
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