Course Description
Cultural Heritage and Environmental Issues focuses on the intersection of tangible and intangible cultural resources and how they rely upon, impact, and are impacted by environmental systems and features. Through lectures, readings, and discussion, historic foundations and contemporary issues will be explored.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
All students are required to complete cultural heritage materials readings and associated practice exercises. Graduate students will also be required to craft a research paper advancing the body of knowledge on cultural heritage and environmental issues.
Athena Title
Sustain Cult Nat Heritage
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, students should be able to: Skills: - Define the context and values of tangible and intangible cultural resources; - Define the context and values of environmental systems within which cultural resources reside; - Identify how/where cultural heritage and environmental systems intersect; - Assess the challenges that cultural resources and environmental systems face as a result of their intersection; - Critically reflect on the intersection of cultural heritage and the environment. Knowledge: - Articulate the role environmental systems play in defining and impacting tangible and intangible cultural heritage; - Identify current international and national goals, laws, policies and guidelines that address the intersection of cultural heritage and environmental issues; - Articulate the breadth of conservation issues that can positively/negatively impact environmental and cultural resources. Values: - Articulate the importance of scientific data to guide decisions that impact cultural and environmental conservation; - Articulate the symbiotic relationship that must occur between environmental and cultural systems for each to continue; - Articulate the need to apply long term systems thinking to the protection and maintenance of cultural heritage and the environment; and - Recognize the importance of community interaction in developing and undertaking cultural and natural resource conservation projects.
Topical Outline
TOPICAL OUTLINE (details of course work) Week Number Topic 1 Context – Cultural Heritage Conservation/terminology 2 Context – Cultural Heritage Conservation/terminology, cont. 3 Context – Ecological Conservation/terminology 4 Context – Ecological Conservation/terminology, cont. 5 Intersection of Cultural and Ecological Conservation 6 International Goals, Law, Policy, Guidance 7 U.S. Goals, Law, Policy, Guidance 8 Mid-term, Case Study Sites 9 Case Study Sites 10 Valuation Systems/programs (LEED+) 11 Valuation Systems/programs, cont. 12 Case Study Sites 13 Case Study Sites 14 Research Presentations 15 Research Presentations
Syllabus