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2020-2021 Catalog

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2020-2021 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

World Heritage Minor

The World Heritage minor focuses on the natural heritage and cultural legacy of the human past, and how it is reflected today in places, landscapes, and intangible aspects of our cultures, including traditions, oral histories, song, music, dance, drama, skills, cuisine, crafts, and festivals. This program offers coursework and applied labs in studying and mapping monuments, buildings, and in managing cultural and natural heritage sites and landscapes using Remote Sensing, 3D visualization technologies, Geographic Information Systems, and digital data curation. Students may minor in World Heritage to strengthen their skills in the documentation, analysis, interpretation, visualization, and management of heritage places and resources with an emphasis in either cultural and/or natural attributes. The program prepares students for heritage careers in historic preservation, heritage tourism, cultural and natural resource management, and global policies on heritage or a combination of such disciplinary approaches.

Minimum Requirements

To be awarded a minor in World Heritage, students must successfully complete at least 20 units as follows:

Lower Division Minor Requirements [4 units]

HS 002: GIS for Anthropology and Heritage Studies Units: 4

Upper Division Minor Requirements [16 units]

Upper Division World Heritage Requirement [8 units]

Two upper division Heritage Studies courses (HS 100 through HS 191). One upper division course may be substituted with 4 units of HS 192 and/or HS 195 . Consult a SSHA Academic Advisor for more information.

Upper Division Elective Courses Relevant to World Heritage [8 units]

Complete two upper division courses chosen from the following range of elective courses revelent to World Heritage.

Human Past and Material Culture

ANTH 130: Material Culture Units: 4
ANTH 131: Space and Place: An Anthropological Perspective Units: 4
ANTH 141: Writing Narrative for Archaeology Units: 4
ANTH 142: Archaeology of Colonialism Units: 4
ANTH 144: Archaeology of Religion Units: 4
ANTH 152: Dying, Death, and Dead Persons Units: 4
ANTH 172: Ethnohistory Units: 4
ANTH 179: Bioarchaeology Units: 4
HIST 109: Topics in the History of Science and Technology Units: 4
HIST 111: The Legacy of Genghis Khan Units: 4
HIST 113: History of the Gunpowder Empires Units: 4
HIST 127: Local Harvest, Global Industry: History of the Production and Consumption of Food Units: 4
HIST 139: Topics in United States History Units: 4
HIST 158: Topics in Middle Eastern History Units: 4
HIST 180: The Silk Road Units: 4

Global Arts, Art History, and Visual Culture

GASP 108: Islamic Art and Architecture of South Asia Units: 4
GASP 159: Topics in Visual Culture Units: 4
GASP 171: Museums as Contested Sites Units: 4
GASP 172: Curatorial Methods and Practices Units: 4

Literature and Foreign Language

ENG 101: Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture, 800-1660 Units: 4
ENG 105: Shakespeare’s Medieval Inheritance Units: 4
ENG 151: Advanced Shakespeare Units: 4
SPAN 105: Hispanic Cultures I Units: 4
SPAN 106: Hispanic Cultures II Units: 4
SPAN 172: History of the Spanish Language Units: 4
SPAN 175: Spanish in the U.S. Units: 4

Graduate Courses

Students must receive approval from the World Heritage Minor Faculty Advisor and from the course instructor for any 200-level course listed below:

Any 200-level IH course [4 units]
Any 200-level course outside IH can also be petitioned on a case-by-case base [4.0 units]

World Heritage Minor Program Learning Outcomes

The main task is to study the evolving methodologies and techniques of documentation, analysis, visualization, and management of heritage sites (natural and cultural), and to evaluate their potential to enrich contemporary societies in the light of the interpretation of the past and of the preservation and conservation of natural and cultural resources. Students will be able to:

Explain and illustrate heritage as a cultural process and the role of World Heritage in contemporary society.
Use field methods and digital technologies to investigate and document heritage case studies
Dialogue with different disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, art history, cognitive science, computer science, cultural and natural resource management, earth science, geography, global policies, and history to interpret how various academic disciplines and methodologies contribute to World Heritage.
Explain key principles and policies of natural and cultural heritage protection and management by mastering international policies, theoretical approaches, best practices, and operating procedures.
Analyze monuments, cultural landscapes, museums, and historic sites and explain their value for local communities and humanity at large.

Guidelines Applying to all SSHA Minors

Students should consult an advisor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts to officially declare the minor and plan their courses. The following guidelines must be adhered to:

To complete any SSHA minor, students must complete a minimum of five courses, at least four of which must be upper division.
All courses must be taken for a letter grade.
All minor course requirements must be completed with a C- or better.
A minimum overall grade point average of 2.0 (C) in upper division courses is required. The only exception is a Global Arts Studies Minor , for which the minimum GPA in upper division courses is 2.7 (B-).
At least three of the five required courses must be taken at UC Merced.
Only one course may be used simultaneously to satisfy requirements for two minors.
Only one course may be used to satisfy both a minor and a major requirement.
Students must consult the UC Merced General Catalog for prerequisites to required courses.