MA Track in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies

•About The Program

The MA Track is a two year degree program (30 credits) that emphasizes the development of a broad understanding of heritage contexts and policies along with development of professional skills. It is open to students with a bachelor degree or its equivalent. Read More

• Program Requirements & Courses

The curriculum consists of 30 credits (12 at 600 level)
Two required courses: 6 credits
Four electives in three areas. : 12 credits
Internship/Field work/abroad component 6: credits
Thesis project: 6 credits. Read More

• Course Offerings Spring 2009

• Application

We are accepting applications for the CHAPS MA program as follows:

Spring 2010 - application due November 1
Fall 2010 - application due January 1

Applicants must apply through the Graduate Admissions office website:


Application to the program is competitive, and made through the Department of Art History. Applicants must include a personal statement addressing their background, including courses in Art History and/or other disciplines relevant to the field of Cultural Heritage Preservation, and their suitability for the program. At present, financial support in the form of fellowships or grants is not available

Visiting Faculty for Fall 2009

Erin Hasinoff, Columbia University

Michael Mills, Farewell, Mills, Gatsch Architects LLC

Announcements

Volunteer Docents needed for the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission’s annual Weekend Journey through the Past, on October 10th and 11th to give tours of the courthouse. The hours are Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 12-5. They are looking for four-six volunteers for each of the two days. www.SCHistoryWeekend.com
contact Sallie de Barcza: deBarcza@co.somerset.nj.us

Internship Opportunities
International Coalition of Sites of Conscience: www.sitesofconscience.org

Call for Papers
World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the global and the local
Conference: 3-4 June 2010, Quebec City, Canada
Original papers are invited to consider subject areas including, but not limited to, the following themes: Marketing in the management of World Heritage Sites; The pragmatics of managing tourists; Financing World Heritage; Community involvement in Site management; Relations between intangible cultural heritage and Site management; The role of the private tourism sector; The nature of tourist experience and behaviour at World Heritage Sites; Shaping local, regional and national identities through Site inscription; Issues of governance and transnational regulation; Legal rights and notions of 'ownership'; The management of World Heritage 'values'; The geo-politics of inclusion and exclusion; Methods of Site evaluation; Managing spiritual values and biodiversity; The role of UNESCO and the political economies of designation.

Please submit your 500 words abstract (in French or English) including a title and full contact details as an electronic file to Professor Maria Gravari-Barbas (Maria.Gravari-Barbas@univ-paris1.fr) or Laurent Bourdeau (laurent.bourdeau@fsa.ulaval.ca ) as soon as possible but no later than 15 December 2009.

Publication opportunity: Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration. Best papers from the conference will also be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rtcc> .

Conference Organisers: UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK for Culture, Tourism and Development, the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Confereces
UMass Amherst Center for Heritage and Society, November 9-13, 2009:
http://www.umass.edu/chs/news/workshop.html