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AIM701 - Heritage and Development in the Asia-Pacific Region

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Offered at:(B, X)
Offerings: Trimester 1
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Unit chair:S Cooke
Note: Online teaching methods require internet access. Please refer to the most current computer specifications.

Content

Module 1: Heritage, Memory and Identity

  • Heritage and development: striking a balance

  • Defining cultural heritage

  • Memory, myth and ideology

  • Postmodernism and identity

  • Modernisation, globalisation and identity

  • Protecting heritage values: assessing significance
Module 2: Heritage at Risk
  • Human and natural threats

  • Heritage in time of war and civil conflict

  • Post-conflict reconstruction

  • International efforts to mitigate heritage risk

  • Risk preparedness planning

  • Difficult heritage: conserving places of pain and shame
Module 3: Economic and Political Contexts
  • Cultural heritage conservation in a context of contestation

  • Heritage conservation in a pro-development political context

  • New wine, old bottles: the continuing conservation struggle

  • The professional response: the Conservation Management Plan

  • Developing a fair, efficient and effective heritage conservation system

  • Adaptive re-use and design solutions

Assessment

Two assignments of 2,500 words, 50% each

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*Student Contribution Rate**Student Contribution Rate***Fee rate - Domestic Students Fee rate - International students
$680$680$680$1950$2513

* Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2010
** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2009
*** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2008
**** Fee rate for students who commenced studies from 2005
***** Fee rate for students who commenced studies from 2006
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.

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