PL471 Cultural Heritage Management

Contents and structure

The course combines knowledge of cultural heritage, with practical tasks and excursions related to cultural heritage management. The course focuses mainly on cultural heritage environments with various forms of buildings and constructions. The student gains insight into how cultural heritage can be a resource for value creation through local place development and tourism, as well as important actors and central historical developments in Norwegian cultural heritage management.

Underlying this, the student is introduced to material cultural heritage ​​of different cultural groups, different historical eras and different geographical contexts. Furthermore, the student learns to recognize and describe cultural environment values ​​in Norwegian buildings and landscapes. By taking the students' backgrounds as a starting point, the course seeks to build on existing knowledge and thereby create engagement.

The practical exercises in the course are vocationally aimed at local cultural heritage management. The students will work with registration, valuation, databases, plans and legislation. The excursions give an insight into physical environments where cultural heritage plays an important role.

Learning Outcome

Knowledge

The student has:

• good understanding of how cultural heritage can be used for value creation in different context
• knowledge of central historical developments and important actors in Norwegian cultural heritage management
• good understanding of the relationship between spatial planning and cultural heritage management
• knowledge of key provisions in the Cultural Heritage Act and the Planning and Building Act

Skills

The student is able to:

• recognize and describe central cultural heritage values in Norwegian buildings and landscapes
• use central databases to obtain information about cultural herigate values
• give advice on management of the cultural heritage in connection with municipal planning
• participate actively in registration and valuation of cultural heritage

General competence

The student:

• understand how cultural heritage can be used as a resource in local development
• has experience in writing and processing an academic essay
• has practice in searching for and applying relevant literature in academic writing
• can read and provide constructive feedback to student peers
• has training in argumentation and in discussing subject matter about mangement of cultural heritage

Entry requirements

None

Recommended previous knowledge

None

Teaching methods

• Lectures
• Excursions
• Practical and conceptual exercises
• Discussions and seminars
• Supervision on exam project

Compulsory learning activities

Written assignments

• 2 submissions of drafts for exam project
• Read and provide feedback to the exam project drafts of 1-2 groups

Compulsory teaching

• 2 excursions
• 2-4 writing seminars including supervision

Absence from any compulsory activity must be clarified with course responsible well in advance

Assessment

Written exam project in groups (35 %)

Individual oral exam (65 %)

Grading: A-F, where F is not passed. Both partial exams must be passed to pass the course.

Examination support material

Exam project: All support material is permitted. For more information about Artificial intelligence (AI), please see Submission of home exams and assignments.

Oral exam: None

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Course reductions

• PL471 - Kulturlandskap og kulturarv - Reduction: 10 studypoints