Representing Heritage (ABPL90241)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
Contact information
Semester 2
Overview
| Availability | Semester 2 |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
Representing Heritage examines how designers and professionals in the built environment and heritage fields observe, record, document, interpret and act upon sites of interest and significance. Discussions will range from the highly theoretical to the creative and the practical, with exposure to cutting edge digital practices and techniques.
Over the semester students will assemble a toolkit of theoretical and practical ways of thinking about spaces, places and buildings across time, and techniques for site representation, documentation and interpretation. The subject available to students from all Melbourne School of Design (MSD) majors with an interest in the heritage, history, memory and conservation of places.
The subject will include content from academic and professional guests delivered through on campus seminars and online additional material.
Assessments will include an individual reflective journal, an experimental group project which documents and interprets a site of the group’s choosing in Melbourne, and an individual critical reflection of this project. This subject will allow students to build on the core subjects in the M.UCH degree, and to augment design, history and theory-based subjects in the MSD programs.
Intended learning outcomes
At the successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Investigate and analyse complex historical places, their inhabitation and experience over time;
- Critically consider and creatively apply a variety of methods of representing, documenting and interpreting particular sites;
- Work individually, and in a multi-disciplinary team, to document and interpret historical places.
Generic skills
- Build on critical skills in evaluating key texts in the area of place-making and representation;
- Build on technical skills in methods of visual documentation and presentation (for example drawing, photography and mapping).
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into a course at the Melbourne School of Design
OR
Approval of the subject coordinator
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
702-574 (ABPL50004) Representing and Remembering Place (UG)
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Journal of subject content
| From Week 1 to Week 12 | 30% |
Group Project progress pin-up
| Mid semester | 10% |
Individual critical reflection of group project
| Week 12 | 20% |
Group Project
| From Week 1 to Week 12 | 40% |
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Hannah Lewi Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1X3 hour seminar per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 28 July 2025 to 26 October 2025 Last self-enrol date 8 August 2025 Census date 1 September 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 September 2025 Assessment period ends 21 November 2025 Semester 2 contact information
Time commitment details
170 Hours
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Last updated: 4 March 2025
Further information
- Texts
- Related Handbook entries
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 4 March 2025