Course aims:

Knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to heritage in modern epoch
Integration in a coherent structure of main theorizations and value landmarks recognised in Heritage and culture in modern epoch
Knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to heritage in modern epoch

Course Entry Requirements:

Culture and civilisation in the Romanian society; Modern History of Romania.

Course contents:

1. Travel - a fundamental discovery of the modern epoch. 2. Values of Enlightnemnet Europe. 3. Prestige and power. Military architecture in baroque Transylvania. 4. Transylvania and its cultural itineraries. 5. Cultural itineraries. 6. European and Romanian UNESCO itineraries. 7. Cultural itinerary and touristic guide. 8. Tourism and historical memory. Local gastronomic traditions. 9. Historical monuments. Case studies. 10. Communist architecture and art. Case studies. 11. Heritage rehabilitation for the community benefit. 12. Identification of some potential funding sources.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification

Learning outcomes:

• retrieval of written sources on heritage; • establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these; • the concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of an epoch and/or of a medium complexity historical subject.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.

Recommended reading:

Heike Doering, The New Face of Mining: Cultural Tourism and Identity in the Coalfield Areas, Univerisity of Nottingham, Nottingham, 2003, 186.
Robinson, Mike, Picard, David, Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development, UNESCO, 2006, 200.
Sharpley, R.,, Travel and Tourism, Editura SAGE, London, 2006, 82.