Steven Brandt
Anthropology, CLAS
Cultural Heritage Management in the Developing World
I propose to teach a new course devoted exclusively to the current and future challenges of Cultural Heritage Management (CHM) in the Developing World (DW). The management of the DW’s cultural heritage has reached a critical stage. Political and social conflicts, massive development projects, substantial tourism growth, and government complacency, ignorance, corruption and lack of funding and capacity, amongst other factors, have all seriously impacted the DW’s ability to maintain, conserve and protect what we no know is the world’s longest record of human cultural achievement. The course will examine these and other issues through a series of weekly topics. The 3 credit course will be open to both upper division undergraduate and graduate students, and taught in a combination lecture and seminar format, where the professor or guest speaker will lecture during a 1 hour class period, with the other 2 hour block devoted to seminar-style discussion of weekly topics and readings. There will also be an optional 4-7 day research/field trip to a developing country so they can experience first hand the issues discussed in class.