PKM398 Cultural Heritage Policies and Planning (16)
CSU Discipline Area: Environmental Planning and Management (ENVPL)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
The subject is orientated towards identification of practical and political problems and issues within cultural resource management at a local government level. Students build on their existing knowledge about cultural resource mangement to develop comprehensive heritage plans.The subject will provide you with a good working knowledge of the fundamentals and ethics of the management of the cultural resources (CRM) as currently practised in Australia.This subject includes a seven-day residential school which will look at various locations in regional Victoria and/or New South Wales.The subject contains a total estimated workload of 320 hours.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 2 | |
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| Distance * | Albury-Wodonga |
*This subject offering contains a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: PKM398
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
This subject is not available to students who have completed either PKM373 Cultural Resource Policy and Planning
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
be able to:
- critically understand the strategies devised to meet practical and political problems in C.R.M.;
- critically and contextually understand the role of the media in moulding public opinion on the use and of value of cultural resources;
- describe the role of the past in constructing and reinforcing individual, social, cultural, historical and national identities;
- critically review statements of significance, management plans and archaeological reports that C.R.M. managers must deal with; and
- stimulate the development of skills for the resolution of conflicts that will arise in C.R.M.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Introduction - cultural resource management (CRM) and the State.
- C.R.M. and politics - are the two inseparable?
- Site significance assessment - how objective is the process?
- Physical problems in site identification.
- Archaeological survey reports.
Residential School
This subject contains a compulsory 7 day residential school.
This subject includes a residential school of some length. For example, it recently involved a seven day trip that looked at various locations in Victoria and New South Wales (Maldon, Bendigo, Swan Hill, Wentworth, Balranald, Lake Mungo, Ivanhoe, Willandra, Homestead, Griffith, Holbrook). A workbook and reading material for the residential school was distributed at the beginning of the session. The trip focused on conservation issues, techniques and policies, and the cultural resource policy and national parks management issues, drawing on examples of the residential school locations, and on examples visited en route.
Accommodation was in Youth Hostel/group accommodation, small motels and national parks quarters of six people per room.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.