310200606 LOCAL CULTURE HERITAGE MANAGEMENT

SEMINARIOS PARA EL DESARROLLO DE LAS COMPETENCIAS TRANSVERSALES UdG DE TRATAMIENTO DIFERENCIADO (Calendario)




Educational objectives

The masters aims to achieve a good balance between the academic and professional worlds so as to provide a high quality response to the demands of the labour market, both public and private, in areas linked to cultural heritage at local level. This implies in-depth knowledge of government and legislation, the latest technologies applied to the field of heritage and the most successful experiences, as well as an interdisciplinary vision based on the application of methods and systems from other areas (management, team management, cultural marketing, new resources and forms of financing, etc.). It is specifically aimed at giving professionals and people interested in cultural heritage the conceptual and practical tools required to manage it.

The course is aimed primarily at people with a degree or equivalent. Exceptionally, students may be admitted who have completed at least 180 credits of their course, provided that these include all the common entry requirements.

Curriculum structure and description of the skills developed

The masters has a course load of 60 credits and lasts for one academic year. Its structure is as follows:

• Cross-disciplinary university and postgraduate courses: 15 ECTS credits from a list of courses.
• Compulsory courses: 18 ECTS credits made up of 6 courses of 3 ECTS credits each. Study and acquisition of the tools and knowledge required to manage cultural heritage at local level. Special emphasis will be placed on the theoretical foundations of management, the overlapping of cultural heritage with territorial management and local development and with the various models and organisations of cultural heritage management at local level.
• Optional courses: 9 ECTS credits from courses offered in the various masters in “Humanities and Social Sciences” at the University of Girona and “Culture and Heritage Management” at the University of Barcelona. Study and acquisition of the tools and knowledge linked to the general management of cultural heritage and cultural organisations.
• Practicum: 6 credits, divided into two blocks. The first block is aimed at providing good knowledge of the current situation of organisations managing local cultural heritage. The second block is related to carrying out a group heritage project.
• Final project: 12 credits. The project will be handed in at the end of the course and will be linked to some aspect dealt with during the practical work or to the place where it was carried out or, exceptionally, with aspects suggested by the student. Each project will be tutored and will be evaluated by a three-member committee, one member representing the coordination and management of the masters, one from the teaching and research staff attached to the masters and one recognised expert linked to the management of cultural heritage at local level.

Specific skills:

• Critical knowledge of the theoretical foundations of cultural heritage management.
• Ability to link cultural heritage management with territory management.
• Knowledge of the organisation and workings of local government.
• Ability to manage local heritage features and centres.
• Ability to use marketing and communication techniques.
• Ability to lead and manage human resources at heritage centres.
• Ability to carry out economic management of heritage centres.

Faculty profile

The teaching staff have considerable previous teaching experience in the field of cultural heritage management.

Since 1995 various masters programmes have been scheduled in which many students have taken part: the 1995-96 postgraduate course in Cultural Heritage and the 1996-97 one in Museology jointly made up the Masters in Cultural Heritage and Museology.

1998-2000 saw the introduction of a degree in Specialist Management of Cultural Heritage which became a Masters in 2000-2002.

Finally, in 2005-06 the Masters in Cultural Heritage Management at the Local Level was introduced. In addition, the teaching staff have taught other masters courses linked to the area of cultural heritage and its management. It should also be noted that some of the staff are experienced in adapting teaching in this field to the European Higher Education Area.

Duration: one-year programme.

Academic coordinator:

Gabriel Alcalde i Gurt  gabriel.alcalde@udg.edu  and Josep Burch i Rius  josep.burch@udg.edu

Telephone: 00 (34) 972 418 785 / 00 (34) 972 418 793 / 00 (34) 972 419 804

Additional information of interest:

Connected areas of research are: Museology and museography,
Town and country planning, Cultural landscapes, Local government, Management of heritage centres and districts, The use of heritage, Converting the past into heritage and the consequences for heritage management, Theoretical foundations of cultural heritage, Organisation of heritage centres, The economics of heritage.

General entrance requirements:

All official university graduates (three-year degrees or more), engineers (including technical engineers) and architects (including architectural technologists) can be admitted to these studies.

Also admitted to the Masters programmes will be those candidates having completed three years of study and a minimum of 180 credits from the existing curricula, including all the official first cycle core requirements of current university studies. The completed first cycle of studies must be anticipated within the specific entrance requirements established in the official graduate programme.

Likewise, foreign university graduates can be admitted to a Masters programme if their degrees have been previously and officially approved, or without official approval if it has been verified that their studies are equivalent to the level of academic training of Spanish degrees and that they authorise admission to graduate studies in the country were they were awarded.

Entrance profiles, previous training requirements and admission criteria

Emphasis will be placed on the academic records of students who have completed four- or five-year degrees in the social sciences and humanities or professionals in local management or from centres associated with cultural heritage.

Priority will be given to students with better academic records and a suitable level of knowledge associated with heritage or other related areas such as history, archaeology, art history, pedagogy, anthropology or the humanities.

Those students who have had adequate training in journalism, law, economics or other related degrees can be admitted after having completed additional coursework specified in the syllabuses.

Admission to the Doctoral programme

Those candidates who wish to be admitted to the doctoral programme will have to verify that they have a graduate degree or another degree declared to be the equivalent, and that their previous training is equivalent to that which is provided in the training modules of the Masters (minimum of 60 ECTS credits) included in the official graduate programme they are applying to. The applications will be evaluated by the admissions committee from each programme, subject to the report by the professor or researcher proposed by the director(s) of the doctoral dissertation.

Pre-registration and registration process:

Pre-registration for official masters programmes is expected to be available on-line as of the month of May. Please refer to the web page of the Graduate School soon for further information: http://gigs.udg.edu