COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TUR 3028 CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Tourism Management

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ILKAY TAŞ GÜRSOY

Offered to

Tourism Management

Course Objective

The course aims to provide the necessary background for cultural and natural heritage management from the perspective of ethics, tourism and world heritage.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to able able to identify natural heritage, cultural heritage, intangible cultural heritage and tangible cultural heritage and to provde information about how to protect heritage
2   To be able provide information about the foundation, development and operation of the international system regarding protection of heritage
3   To be able explain intangible and tangible cultural, natural heritage items of Türkiye
4   To be able to know heritage across the world and explain world heritage with statistical knowledge

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Natural and Cultural Heritage: Conceptual Framework-Definition, elements
2 International Framework for the Protection of Natural and Cultural HeritageSystem, institutions, emergence and development
3 UNESCO natural and cultural heritage protection system, functioning of institutions and candidacy process, aid 1
4 UNESCO natural and cultural heritage protection system, functioning of institutions and candidacy process, aid 2
5 Ethics and Heritage: what is anthropocentric ethics Global Code of Ethics for Tourism
6 Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage
7 Living human treasures
8 Protection of tangible cultural heritage
9 Türkiye's tangible culture items on the UNESCO word heritage list
10 Türkiye's intangible culture items on the UNESCO word heritage list
11 Examining cultural heritage items from different countries on world heritage list 1
12 Examining cultural heritage items from different countries on world heritage list 2
13 A look at world heritage with statistics: Cultural, natural heritage and tourism with case studies
14 Revision
15 Final exam
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Azzopardi, E., Kenter, J. O., Young, J., Leakey, C., O'Connor, S., Martino, S., ... & Pita, C. (2023). What are heritage values Integrating natural and cultural heritage into environmental valuation. People and Nature, 5(2), 368-383.
Cranmer, E. E., tom Dieck, M. C., & Jung, T. (2023). The role of augmented reality for sustainable development: Evidence from cultural heritage tourism. Tourism Management Perspectives, 49, 101196.
UNESCO World Heritage Center: http://whc.unesco.org/

Avrupa Birliği, Links between Natural and Cultural heritage, http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/natura2000/management/links_natural_cultural_heritage_en.htm

David Lowenthal (2005) Natural and cultural heritage, International Journal of
Heritage Studies, 11:1, 81-92.

UNITAR Series: http://www.unitar.org/hiroshima/management-and-conservation-of-world-heritage-sites UNITAR Series

Labadi, S. (2013). UNESCO, cultural heritage, and outstanding universal value: Value-based analyses of the World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions.

Reisinger, Y., & Turner, L. (2003). Cross-Cultural Behavior in Tourism: Concepts and Analysis. Oxford, U.K.: Butterworth Heinemann.

Sigala, M., & Leslie, D. (2005). International Cultural Tourism Management: Implications and Cases. Oxford, U.K.: Butterworth Heinemann.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presenting lectures. To exchange information and discuss about the topic, case study.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Vize
2 FN Final
3 BNS BNS VZ*0.40+FN * 0.60
4 BUT Bütünleme Notu
5 BBN Bütünleme Sonu Başarı Notu VZ*0.40+BUT * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1.Midterm Exam: Mid-term exam covers the topics examined in the course and weekly assignments (40%).
2.Final Exam: Final exam covers all subjects in the course content. Students are also responsible for the discussion, practice and case studies (60%).

Assessment Criteria

Exams, class activities

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. It is obligatory to attend at least 70% of the classes
2. Plagiarism of any type will result in disciplinary action.
3. It is essential that students make use of the reading list
4. Students are expected to be involved in class discussions

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ilkay.tas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday / 10:00-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 117

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.155
LO.255
LO.35
LO.45