Content in the Field (CUMC90023)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2017
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This field based subject critically frames cross-cultural work currently taking place in the culture and heritage sector, and practically teaches students how to generate cultural conservation content accordingly, from community consultation, translation strategies, intellectual property protocols, working in partnership with all stakeholders and within a multidisciplinary team, to the technical needs of on-site documentation.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Develop an appreciation of cultural diversity, community sensitivities and a changing new media paradigms that exist within the cultural heritage and conservation sectors;
- Demonstrate a cross disciplinary understanding, to the resolution of project management issues in the field;
- Contextualise protocols and conventions relevant to fieldwork;
- Act as informed advocates for ethical community conservation projects, actively engaging in critical policy issues and applying ethical frameworks;
- Build processes and skills required for documenting cultural conservation in a range of forms;
- Apply critical analysis to conservation projects using a social and cultural impact framework;
- Identify the changing social contexts of cultural production in community;
- Collaborate in the field within a multidisciplinary team; and
- Troubleshoot video, audio and lighting equipment.
Last updated: 3 November 2022