Heritage Theories and Policies

Code:

MHP022

Acronym:

TPP

Instance: 2010/2011 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Heritage Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in History and Heritage

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MHP	11	MHP - Study Plan	1	-	6	60	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Program

1. Historical conditions in which the increasingly comprehensive concept of “heritage” emerges and develops. Meanings and contexts that today we can speak of “heritage” – a critical view of heritage ideologies and policies.
2. Philosophies of conservation, restoration and fruition of said “cultural assets” from the 19th century to Post-modernity, in other words, basically from elitist Romanticism to the society of mass consumption/tourism.
3. Theory(ies) and practice(s) – from the "nation state" to the widespread commercialization in the world (turned into an object of fruition mediated by neo-liberal economics), how States, regions and local authorities have generated and managed the issues of heritage, identity and authenticity.
4. Heritage and contemporary creation. The "event" as an "ontological operator": emerging (happening, having something to show and that can be visited) to be. The image and policies of visibility and attractiveness.

Mandatory literature

Guillaume, Marc; A Política do Património, Porto, Campo das Letras, 2003
Connerton, Paul; Como as Sociedades Recordam, Oeiras, Celta Editora, 1993
Choay, Françoise; L' Allégorie du Patrimoine, Paris, du Seuil, 1999
Martínez Justicia, María José; Historia y Teoria de la Conservación y Restauración Artística, Madrid, Ed. Tecnos, 2001 - 2ª ed.
González-Varas, Ignácio; Conservación de Bienes Culturales. Teoria, Historia, Princípios y Normas, Madrid, Ediciones Cátedra, 2003 - 3ª ed.

Complementary Bibliography

Nora, Pierre (dir. de); Les Lieux de la Mémoire, Paris, Gallimard, 1984-1992

keywords

Humanities > History

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	30,00
	Teste	20,00		2011-07-16
	Trabalho escrito	10,00		2011-07-16
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	102	2011-07-16
	Total:	102,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Every student must actively participate in classes on a continuous basis (“continuous/distributed assessment”), complemented with a short essay addressing a topic of their choice. The final mark will result from the correlation between these two components.