Overview
Lecturer
Laura-Claudia Stanciu
Seminar tutor
Laura-Claudia Stanciu
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
History - Masters
Field of study
Research, preservation and capitalization of historical heritage
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Entry requirements
Recording and legislation for the cultural patrimony.
Aims
Knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to Modern History of Romanians.
Integration in a coherent structure of main theorizations and value landmarks recognised in historical monuments conservation.
Knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to Modern History of Romanians.
Course contents
1. Romania’s modernization: Art and society.
2. Representations for contemporary times: architecture, sculpture and painting.
3. Politics and patrimony: modern symbols.
4. Protectors for cultural and historical patrimony (Transylvania and the Old Kingdom).
5. Romania and jubilee exhibitions.
6. Natural patrimony – historical patrimony.
7. Restoration of historical monuments in the modern epoch.
8. Modern history and urbanity. Sources for the patrimony reconstitution.
9. Historical monuments and their importance for conducting research.
10. Identity and patrimony in a multi-cultural space.
11. Heroes, castles and ruins in 18th century.
12. Heroes, castles and ruins in 19th century. Conlusions.
Learning outcomes
• retrieval of written sources on the historical past;
• 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.
Assessment
Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.
Recommended reading
Eyewitnessing. The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence
Burke, Peter
Reaktion Books, London, 2001 · 340
Picturing the Self. Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture
Doy, Gen
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, London, 2005 · 180
Writing the Image after Roland Barthes
Rabaté, Michel Jean (ed.)
University of Philadelphia Press, Philadelphia, 1997 · 82
Béla Cserni and the Beginnings of Urban Archaeology in Alba Iulia
Szabó, Csaba
Mega Publishing House, Cluj Napoca, 2016 · 480