'Heritage': Dynamics of Collections (2025/2026: Semester 2 – Spring)

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Cursusdoel

After completing this course students are able to:
  1. engage with debates about the meanings and uses of the term ‘heritage’,
  2. synthesize interdisciplinary approaches to heritage and make active use of scholarly skills,
  3. explain the formation and evolution of the historic monument, collections, and heritage, informed by study in the fields of Art History, Anthropology and Science,
  4. analyze some of the dynamics of 21st heritage: globalization, expansion, collection management,
  5. apply their knowledge to real-life situations regarding monuments, collections, and different forms of heritage,
  6. integrate interdisciplinary scholarship on heritage and collections into the core of their liberal arts and sciences education,
  7. realize their own research paper departing from a focus on one or more of the dynamics of heritage,
  8. write their research findings in the form of a visually informed research paper.
Assessment connected to learning goals:
Short essay 1 20% : 1, 2, 3, 5,
Short essay 2 20% : 1, 2, 3, 5
Short essay 3 20% : 1, 2, 3, 4,
Term essay 40% : 6, 7, 8

Vakinhoudelijk

Cross-listed with SSC. Track finisher for Anthropology if UCSSCANT23 and UCHUMHAR22 have been completed as well.

This course takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the historical development of heritage while going into depth through a range of case studies both European and non-European. It examines the rise of the historic monument and the expansion of knowledge as marking a new era of citizenship, for both subjects and objects. Twentieth-century international organisations, and new categories of heritage generated new dynamics and frictions.
The course examines how and why these shifts took place by engaging with scholarly literature and debates in art history, history of science, and anthropology; and by means of case studies. There will be site visits to and expert lectures on the Catharijneconvent Museum in Utrecht, which will add to students knowledge of and engagement with contemporary heritage institutions and innovative research projects (18 Feb., 2 March, 23 March, and 20 April – details on Blackboard).
Format
The course is divided into three content sections: the first two before mid-term, and the third after mid-term, each with its own written assignment. The final weeks of the semester will be devoted to writing a research essay on a topic of the student’s own choice. There will be a number of plenary sessions to ensure course cohesion throughout. There will be small assignments to support the research process and individual meetings to support the writing process of the term paper throughout the semester.

Werkvormen

UCU HUM 3 course

Toetsing

Written assignment – section 1

Verplicht | Weging 20% | ECTS 1,5

Written assignment – section 2

Verplicht | Weging 20% | ECTS 1,5

Written assignment – section 3

Verplicht | Weging 20% | ECTS 1,5

Research paper

Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3

*midterm FEEDBACK*

Niet verplicht

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Er moet voldaan zijn aan minimaal één van de cursussen:

En er moet voldaan zijn aan minimaal één van de cursussen:

Voorkennis

Students who want to do an academic internship (as part of the CHIP program) need UCHUMHAR22 and UCHUMHAR32.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Competenties

  • Academisch schrijven
  • Internationale en interculturele oriëntatie
  • Interdisciplinariteit
  • Kritisch lezen
  • Onderzoeksvaardigheden

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • BOEK
    Choay, F., 2001. The Invention of the Historic Monument. Cambridge: CUP ISBN 0 521 45474 3 (digital version provided by instructor)
  • BOEK
    Parker Brienen, R., 2006, Visions of a Savage Paradise. Albert Eckhout Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Amsterdam: Amsterdam U.P. [available on the AUP site]
  • BOEK
    Sansi, R., 2010, Fetishes and Monuments. Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th century. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISBN 9 781845 457112

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Opmerkingen

Cross-listed with SSC. Track finisher for Anthropology if UCSSCANT23 and UCHUMHAR22 completed.

Coördinator

dr. T. Zakula T.Zakula1@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. T. Zakula T.Zakula1@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

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