Description
Master's Degree Programme in Sustainable Heritage Management, sprin term 2023/2024Purpose:
Ultimately this course is an introduction to the world of project management tools, practices and skills. The students will be given an insight into the tools used in project management that are necessary to ensure professionally formulated proposal and they will be facilitated in utilizing them in response to a particular heritage issue or problem.
The course covers a number of aspects of project management that are relevant to all projects eg creating a budget, assessing health and safety concerns, creating communication strategies, and analysing the needs of the stakeholders involved. It also expects the students to think about which aspects of the project management toolkit are especially relevant and specific to their project design. They will be mentored in how to select the most relevant tools from the project management toolkit while also explicitly engaging with aspects of sustainability to ensure the proposal is viable and resilient.
The course provides students with the opportunity to work with real world heritage problems, issues and scenarios and to work through project management tools to create a professional-standard proposal that addresses and alleviates their problem. This course is based on real world problems affecting the heritage field and allows the students to visualise how heritage problem-solving can work in practice.