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
Culture and civilisation in the Romanian society; Modern History of Romania.
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 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.
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.
Assessment
Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.
Recommended reading
The New Face of Mining: Cultural Tourism and Identity in the Coalfield Areas
Heike Doering
Univerisity of Nottingham, Nottingham, 2003 · 186
Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development
Robinson, Mike, Picard, David
UNESCO, 2006 · 200
Travel and Tourism
Sharpley, R.,
Editura SAGE, London, 2006 · 82