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Study Details: 1 year
This course provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to address challenges in global cultural heritage. You have the opportunity to develop skills necessary to work in the heritage industry and beyond, and to learn about debates and challenges in heritage management, digital heritage, archaeology, and the creative industries.
We build our courses around real-world challenges. Our students contribute their own broad interests and expertise to debates and issues, ranging from sustainability to popular representations of the past. Students visit cultural heritage sites and meet with professionals in the sector.
Graduates in cultural heritage studies at Sheffield go on to work in the heritage industry, in local government and in academia.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in a relevant subject.
Cultural heritage graduates are valued by employers from many different sectors. These include charities, finance, retail and administration, teaching, environmental work, and of course the heritage sector, universities, museums, archaeology parks, national and local government.
Employers increasingly recognise that in addition to rigorous academic training within an unusually broad-based framework, the study of cultural heritage also provides students with a variety of sought-after practical skills and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Recent cultural heritage graduates have gone on to work as:
Core modules:
Heritage, History and Identity
Plus the below:
- Dissertation
- The Museum: History and Practice
- Cultural Heritage Today
- Stories in Stone: Understanding Built Heritage
Optional modules:
Landscapes in archaeology: methods and perspectives
Digital Mapping for the Humanities
Digital Cultural Heritage: Theory and Practice
GIS for Archaeologists
The following modules may run in either semester depending on availability:
Egypt in the Age of the Empire.
The Archaeology of Death and Burial
Plus the below:
- Introduction to Creative and Cultural Industries
- Languages for All option module
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