COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TUI 5064 CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Tourism Management

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ÖZGÜR DEVRIM YILMAZ

Offered to

Tourism Management

Course Objective

This course aims the students to understand the scope of cultural heritage tourism, cultural heritage conservation and management and importance of developing and preserving cultural and heritage resources. The range of cultural heritage assets that can become viable tourism attractions and ways of linking quality cultural heritage tourism to community development; skills and roles of cultural heritage tourism professionals as they are related to the historic preservation field as well as the business environment with particular emphasis on marketing.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Receive a sound theoretical formation in the mediation of contemporary issues in cultural resource management.
2   Prepare themselves to be effective leaders and actors in the public arena of cultural heritage
3   Equip themselves with a range of practical skills that will make them more efficient professionals
4   Select and apply a variety of methods for evaluating cultural heritage resources
5   Prepare a professionally designed management plan for a specific cultural heritage resource

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Culture, economy, heritage, history, identity, protection, and to examine the concept of tourism
2 History of cultural tourism
3 Tangible cultural heritage items
4 Intangible cultural heritage items
5 UNESCO world culture heritage list
6 Related organizations for cultural heritage
7 Definition of cultural heritage, preventing and storing
8 National legislation and regulations about cultural heritage
9 International legislation and regulations about cultural heritage
10 Cultural landscapes, architectural and cultural heritage management
11 Cultural routes and development of tourist routes based on cultural heritage
12 New forms of cultural heritage concept
13 Presentations
14 Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Articles from academic journals

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures
Case analysis

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

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Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

devrim.yilmaz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.15
LO.245
LO.3554
LO.445
LO.555

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