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Course content
You will study 180 credits over the duration of your course. You'll study a variety of modules and then hone your research skills by producing a dissertation and presenting an assessed lecture on your dissertation topic.
Modules
Core modules
Your core modules will cover topics such as:
- Cultural Heritage Management 1: Concepts, Principles and Practice
- Cultural Heritage Management 2: Museums, Audiences and Interpretation
Option modules
You'll choose from a range of option modules. Examples may include:
- Analysing Historic Buildings
- Public History I: Meaning and Values
- Community Activism in Heritage
- Heritage Film-making
- Heritage Education
- Debates in Museum Theory and Practice
Dissertation
You will carry out a piece of original independent research, using appropriate disciplinary skills in an imaginative way. You'll be assessed with a 20,000 word dissertation and assessed lecture on your research.
During this process you will have regular meetings with their supervisor who will offer support, guidance and encouragement throughout.
Recent dissertation topics have included:
- Living in the Past? The Uses of Historical Re-enactment and Effects upon its Participants
- “We want our country back” The role of the Authorised Heritage Discourse in the 2016 EU Referendum
- Sustainable Collections Management: a Comparison Between UK and Danish Museum Storage
- Walking Through the Past: An Analysis of the Reasons Why Hikers Choose to Walk Paths with Heritage Significance.
- A Study in Representation and Suffrage: What are the Challenges of Representing Women From the Past and How Can Museums Present Suffrage Successfully During the 2018 Centenary?
- In the Round: Country Music's Transatlantic Conversation
- To be Reborn: Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust in post-World War II Displaced Person (DP) Camps - Materiality and Heritage Significance
- A Heritage of Resistance: Exploring the Representation of African American Civil Disobedience and Activism in American Museums
- Museums and Change: Investigating the Impact of the New Key Stage 2 History National Curriculum on Education Practice for Yorkshire Museums
- Examining the Case that Communal Heritage can be Created at Music Festivals Through the Investigation of Boomtown Fair
- Place Attachment and the Millennial Generation: What the Heritage Sector can Learn from ‘Big Data’
- Digitally Preserving Chinese Traditional Music: Recording, Disseminating and Archiving the Working Song of Chuan Jiang
Placements
In the Christmas and Easter vacations, you will have the option of gaining experience in a student placement with a professional heritage organisation.
Organisations offering placements range from museums and heritage centres to local planning authorities. This gives you the opportunity to put the knowledge and skills you have learned into practice and to further develop your heritage management understanding and expertise.
Although optional, most students opt to take voluntary placements as they not only provide excellent experience, but are an invaluable addition to your CV.
