2023
Introduction to Cultural Heritage
Name: Introduction to Cultural Heritage
Code: HIS12104L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
- Awareness to the importance of cultural heritage
- Acquiring the knowledge required for the identification of the Cultural Heritage
- Identify the heritage processes
- Identification of the legal framework of cultural heritage in national and international level
- Knowledge of the different strategies for preserving and increasing awareness for the value of the
Cultural Heritage
- Recognition of the existing links between Cultural Heritage, memory and identity
- Recognition of the importance of the Cultural Heritage in today's society
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Skills:
- Understanding the vocabulary and conceptualization inherent to Cultural Heritage
- Capacity to identify Cultural heritage and recognize its links with the region and the community in which it
is inscribed
- Capacity to develop investigation in this area.
- Acquiring the knowledge required for the identification of the Cultural Heritage
- Identify the heritage processes
- Identification of the legal framework of cultural heritage in national and international level
- Knowledge of the different strategies for preserving and increasing awareness for the value of the
Cultural Heritage
- Recognition of the existing links between Cultural Heritage, memory and identity
- Recognition of the importance of the Cultural Heritage in today's society
-
Skills:
- Understanding the vocabulary and conceptualization inherent to Cultural Heritage
- Capacity to identify Cultural heritage and recognize its links with the region and the community in which it
is inscribed
- Capacity to develop investigation in this area.
Contents
Cultural Heritage: concpets, principes and tipologies
The processes of patrimonialização
The legal framework of cultural heritage in national and international level.
The main national and international institutions associated with the Cultural Heritage
The Cultural Heritage and its links with the regions and communities in which is inscribed.
An approach to the objectives and methodologies of Cultural Heritage inventories.
The different forms of recovery, refunctionalization and dissemination of cultural heritage.
Cultural heritage and formal and informal education.
An approach to the cultural heritage and sustainable development.
The processes of patrimonialização
The legal framework of cultural heritage in national and international level.
The main national and international institutions associated with the Cultural Heritage
The Cultural Heritage and its links with the regions and communities in which is inscribed.
An approach to the objectives and methodologies of Cultural Heritage inventories.
The different forms of recovery, refunctionalization and dissemination of cultural heritage.
Cultural heritage and formal and informal education.
An approach to the cultural heritage and sustainable development.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical and practical lessons in the classroom, comment texts, case analysis and study visits.
Evaluation can be made according to the system of continuous evaluation or under the exams system.
Under continuous evaluation the student will have to carry out a written work and he/she will also have to
present and discuss that same work.
Tutorial Regime: providing that the course is given under tutorial authority the rules for evaluation,
attendance and tutorial are defined by the professor and the students
A. Attendance Policies
1. Elaboration of a practical work (to be defined between the student and the professor) and presentation
and discussion of the presented work (50%)
2. Evaluation teste (50%).
B. Regime de exame/ exams Policy
Written exam about the lectured subjects
Evaluation can be made according to the system of continuous evaluation or under the exams system.
Under continuous evaluation the student will have to carry out a written work and he/she will also have to
present and discuss that same work.
Tutorial Regime: providing that the course is given under tutorial authority the rules for evaluation,
attendance and tutorial are defined by the professor and the students
A. Attendance Policies
1. Elaboration of a practical work (to be defined between the student and the professor) and presentation
and discussion of the presented work (50%)
2. Evaluation teste (50%).
B. Regime de exame/ exams Policy
Written exam about the lectured subjects
Teaching Staff
- Maria Ana Rodrigues Bernardo [responsible]
- Maria Zozaya Montes
