Cultural Heritage: knowledge, management, enhancement
- Bosnia. France
- Germany
- Spain
What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?
What does it train you for?
The Course aims at providing a complete and solid basic training in the cultural heritage subjects; there are two curricula, respectively related to the historical-archaeological heritage and to the material and immaterial cultural heritage of the region, for their communication and glamorization in the field of cultural tourism.
The humanistic approach, providing students with the tools for the historical and anthropological understanding of assets and for their cultural and chronological positioning, is accompanied by a practical-operational approach, enabling them, through field activities, specific laboratories, and internships to acquire the most important methods for the recovery, conservation and restoration, as well as for the analysis and classification of the same assets, even by means of computer tools.
The course provides for some core teachings, functional to the specificity of each curriculum; based on his/her interests, each student may choose a specific educational path through an appropriate selection among the proposed options.
The wide range of class-specific (archaeological, historical-artistic, demo-ethnoanthropological, geographical and juridical-economic subjects) will enable students to a wide and articulated vision of material and immaterial cultural heritage and to increase the possibility to fit in a labor market requiring flexibility as well as a wide range of competences, and to continue their studies with 2nd cycle degrees.
What do you learn?
The Cultural Heritage Graduate will learn to catalog archaeological artifacts and works of art of various kinds, books and documents.
He/she will acquire the basic skills for setting up exhibitions and for educational and cultural initiatives, in the fields of historical-artistic and archaeological, demo-ethno-anthropological and geographical disciplines.
He/she will be able to illustrate in a scientifically correct manner the historical, archaeological, historical-artistic, cultural and naturalistic particularities of a territory, or of a museum collection or a site; he/she will be able to prepare itineraries for cultural tourism, introducing visitors to the enjoyment of museum collections, works, sites and archaeological, historical-artistic, demo-ethno-anthropological or literary monuments.
As a guide, he/she will be able to lead guided tours of museum structures or urban routes.
He/she will be able to organize and arrange finds, models and specimens, such as fossils, tools, objects of various kinds, artistic artifacts inside display cases, for museum exhibitions and events; will be able to assist readers in using the catalogues, databases and indexes with which libraries are organized; will be able to assist with research and control the circulation of books and loans.
He will also be able to support, as a diagnostic expert, the professionals of the sectors indicated above in identifying aspects connected to the degradation of the Cultural Heritage.
What can you do with it?
The Cultural Heritage Graduate will be able to conduct archaeological excavations under the guidance of the director, classify archaeological and historical-artistic finds, prepare spaces and materials for exhibitions, laboratory activities and educational interventions aimed to knowledge and use of a territory, museum collection, site.
As a diagnostic expert, he/she will support the excavation director and/or the restorer in identifying and documenting the degradation of the Cultural Heritage.
He/she will acquire, according to his training path, knowledge and skills for the following activities (some defined by the DM 244 of 20.05.2019 MIBACT):
- Assistant Physical Anthropologist (physical anthropologist III level);
- Assistant Archaeologist (archaeologist III level);
- Assistant Demoethnoanthropologist (demoethnoanthropologist III level);
- Assistant Expert in Diagnostics and Science and Technology applied to Cultural Heritage (Expert III level);
- Mediator/Guide to Cultural Heritage;
- Museum and Library Technician.
The candidate will be able to work as a freelancer in the relevant branch of expertise, and as a mediator and/or guide, he/she will be able to work in travel agencies.