Global Heritage

Global Heritage from Cardiff University provides you with opportunities to address these and other issues in a comparative, international context. If you already have experience of working in the heritage sector, this program will allow you to broaden your frame of theoretical and geographical reference.

Global Heritage from Cardiff University works with a broad conception of heritage, focusing not only on tangible culture (e.g., historic sites, buildings, monuments, museums, and artefacts), but also on intangible cultural heritage (e.g., traditional skills and crafts, creative and social practices, rituals and festivals).

Quick Facts:

• Our MA in Global Heritage provides you with a thorough and critical understanding of the role of heritage in the contemporary world, paying particular attention to transnational developments and the impact of globalisation on the sector. While exploring the specificities of national, regional, and local contexts, you will learn how to relate these contexts to globally important heritage debates, for example around sustainability, decolonisation, the impact of conflict and climate change on heritage, and the relationship between heritage and human rights.
• If you have no previous experience of the heritage sector, this program will provide you with a comprehensive introduction to heritage as a matter of policy and practice.
• You will engage in key heritage debates around the role of museums, visual heritage, the role of heritage in communities, monuments and commemoration, cultural landscapes, and minority languages, among other issues. The program draws on the rich heritage resources of Wales to provide you with insights into the impact of the sector.
• Led by the School of Modern Languages, the program draws on the expertise of staff across the across the arts, humanities, and social sciences disciplines at Cardiff University, which benefits from a wealth of research and teaching experience in the field of heritage. You will be taught by researchers active in the field of heritage and benefit from insights into their ongoing research projects.

Courses include:

• Tangible and Intangible Heritage in the Global Context
• Research Methods and Practice
• The Archaeology of Death and Commemoration
• Gender, Power and Culture
• Visual Histories: Visions of the Past in Global Heritage Discourse & Culture
• International Cultural Policy: Theory and Practice
• Culture, Creativity and Globalization