A Brief History of the Degree Course in Cultural Heritage Management
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A brief outline of the BA Degree Course in Cultural Heritage Management The BA Degree Course in Cultural Heritage Management is a three-year Degree Course which has three curricula: Archaeological Heritage, Archivistic and Library Heritage, and Historical-Artistic Heritage. Each curriculum will allow students to develop specific professional profiles. When it first came into existence in the academic year 1993-1994, the access to the BA in Cultural Heritage Management was ‘programmed’, so that only a limited number of students were selected to enrol. However, because of the many requests on the part of students, it was later turned into an open-access BA and it is one of the Degree Courses with the largest number of enrolments in the School of Humanities to date. The general aim of the BA in Cultural Heritage Management is to lead students to develop theoretical, methodological and practical competence in the sphere of cultural heritage management. Because of this, although the majority of courses fall under the humanities category, a number of courses which are more scientific and/or technological in nature were also included, so as to support students in building specific professional profiles. In order to help students organise their academic activity proficiently, the Degree Course Board suggests a distribution of the courses in the three academic years which is based on a propaedeutic criterion: the so- called ‘basic activities’ and ‘characterising activities’ are propaedeutic (hence preparatory) to the activities which will follow. This decision was made to ensure that the basic and characterising activities would not overlap in the general timetable of courses and that the distribution of courses to attend during the three years would be properly balanced. The didactic activities can take the form of lectures, practical classes, seminars, lab activities, and language courses. According to the specific requirements of the different subjects, some courses can also be divided into modules. The courses allow students to gain 12 ECTS (= 72 hours of lectures), 9 ECTS (= 54 hours of lectures), or 6 ECTS (= 36 hours of lectures). They can also be attended partially, but no less than 6 ECTS can be gained for each module. Once a student has gained 173 ECTS, he/she is allowed to defend his/her thesis in front of a Board of Professors teaching in the BA. This can only be done, however, if the student has passed a 2 ECTS English Language Test which can be taken during any of the three academic years of the BA. The thesis defence will allow students to gain the final 7 ECTS necessary to graduate. The final exams at the end of courses can be written and/or oral and each Lecturer/Professor will decide which type of exam to opt for. Lecturers and Professors can also decide to opt for the continuous assessment, namely to allow students to take tests during the course, which will contribute to the students’ final marks and can become a valuable tool to monitor and evaluate student learning. Graduates in Cultural Heritage Management can have access to the following Master’s Degree Courses: Archaeological, Philological, Literary and Historical Sciences; History of Art and Artistic Heritage Management; Historical, Archivistic and Library Sciences; Methodologies for the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage; Information and Publishing; Production and Audiovisual Translation for the Performing Arts. In order to clarify what possible courses are of interest to Degree Courses in Cultural Heritage Management in the Italian university system and in what possible way the 180 ECTS necessary to complete a three-year BA can be gained, below is a table containing an indicative list of courses and a general scheme of how they can be grouped into Basic activities (min. 42 max. 66 ECTS), Characterising activities (min. 72 max. 90 ECTS), Additional activities (18 ECTS) and Other activities (min. 24 max 46 ECTS): Basic Activities (min. 42 max. 66 ECTS): Italian Language and Literature (min. 9 max. 12 ECTS): Italian Literature. Ancient Studies (min. 18 max 27 ECTS): Greek History; Roman History; History of the Ancient Near East; Egyptology and Coptic civilisation; Assirology; Anatolistic; History of Islamic Countries; Philology, Religion and History of Iran; Philology, Religion and History of India and Central Asia; History of South and South-Eastern Asia; Medieval History; Modern History; Contemporary History. Ancient and medieval civilisations (min. 9 max 18 ECTS): Ancient Greek Language and Literature; Latin Language and Literature; Ancient Christian Literature; Byzantine Civilisation; Medieval and Humanistic Latin Literature; Romance Philology and Linguistics. Geographical and Anthropological disciplines (min. 6 max. 9 ECTS): Anthropology; Demo-ethno- anthropological disciplines; Geography; Economic and political Geography. Characterising Activities (min. 72 max. Cultural Heritage Law and Management (min. 6 max 9 ECTS): Private Law; Public Law; Administrative 90 ECTS): Law; Canon and Ecclesiastical Law; European Union Law; Economic Politics; Finance. Historical-archaeological, artistic, archivistic, library, demo-ethno-anthropological and environmental disciplines (min. 66 max 81 ECTS): History of Architecture; Prehistory and Protohistory; Numismatics; Papyrology; Etruscan and Ancient Italian Civilisations; Classical Archaeology; Christian and Medieval Archaeology; Ancient Topography; Research Methods for Archaeology; History of Medieval Art; History of Modern Art; History of Contemporary Art; Museology and Art and Restoration Criticism; Performing Arts Studies; Cinema, Photography and Television; Musicology and History of Music; Ethno-musicology; Aegean Civilisations; Glottology and Linguistics; Archaeology and History of Art of the Ancient Near East; Phoenician-Punic Archaeology; Muslim Archaeology and History of Art; Archaeology and History of Art of India and Central Asia; Archaeology, Philosophy and History of Art of Eastern India; Demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines; Aestetics, Bibliography and Biblioteconomy; Paleography; Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes; Environmental Sociology. Additional Activities (18 ECTS): Systematic Botany; Applied and Environmental Botany; Zoology; Ecology; Physical Chemistry; Chemistry of the Environment and of Cultural Heritage; Applied Physics (for Cultural and Environmental Heritage, Biology and Medicine); Paleontology and Paleoecology; Physical Geography and Geomorphology; Mineral Geo-resources, Mining and Petrographic Applications to the Environment and Cultural Heritage; Landscape Architecture; Information Technology; Electronics; Information- processing Systems; English Literature; English Language and Translation; History of Christianity and Church. Other Activities (min. 24 max 46 ECTS): Student’s Choice (12 ECTS), i.e. students are free to choose which course(s) to attend in order to gain a grand total of 12 ECTS; Final Thesis (7 ECTS); English Language Test (2 ECTS); Other Language Skills (min. 0 max. 5 ECTS); Computer Skills (min. 0 max. 5 ECTS); Traineeships (min. 0 max. 5 ECTS); Job-oriented skills and working experience (min. 3 max. 7 ECTS); Internships (min. 0 max 3 ECTS). N.B. Please note that the table above constitutes a general scheme of which courses can potentially be included into the curricula of a BA Degree Course in Cultural Heritage Management as approved by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Scientific Research. The list of courses which have been included into the curricula of the BA Degree Course in Cultural Heritage Management at the University of Genoa for the academic year 2013/2014 can be found in the page below. List of Courses of the BA Degree Course in Cultural Heritage Management, University of Genoa (academic year 2013-2014) Archaeobotany MUTUATIONS Archaeology and Aegean Civilisations Roman and Greek Archaeology and History of Art Bibliography Medieval Archaeology Latin Literature (9 ECTS) Archaeometrics Latin Literature (6 ECTS) Archaeozoology Contemporary History General Archivistics History of Theatre and Performing Arts Botany for Cultural Heritage History of Written Latin Chemistry of Materials and Restoration History of Exploration and Geographical Discoveries Fundamentals of Research Methods in Literature Greek History and Art Criticism Modern History Fundamentals of Christian History Geoarchaeology Fundamentals of Italian Literature Cultural Heritage Law Greek Literature and Culture Italian Literature Medieval and Humanistic Latin Literature Fundamentals of Ancient Greek (20 hours) Fundamentals of Ancient Greek (40 hours) Fundamentals of Latin English Language and Translation Chemical-Physical Methodologies for Cultural Heritage Research Methods for Archaeology Ancient Numismatics Papyrology Prehistory and Protohistory Information-processing Systems History of Manuscripts History of Contemporary Art East Asian Art History History of Ligurian Art in the Modern era History of Modern Art History of Contemporary Art History of Photography and Fundamentals of Cataloguing History of Art Techniques Roman History and Civilisation History of the Evolution of Documents Medieval History Analysis of Documentary Sources (2 ECTS). LECTURER/PROFESSOR: STEFANO GARDINI Genoa, 1981. Graduated in History at University of Genoa in 2005, and in Archival, palaeographical and diplomatical studies at State Archives of Genoa School. Since 1st May 2010 is fixed-term researcher in Archival studies (M-STO/08) at the Department of Antiquities, Philosophy,