World Heritage is an emerging interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary area that includes architecture, history, archaeology, art history, geography, anthropology, management, law, environmental sciences and other disciplines. Thus, faculty in this field brings together the humanities, social sciences, policy, and management, consistent with the interdisciplinary intent of the World Cultures program within SSHA.
The key feature of the program, a strong technology orientation, will permit us to create a new discipline and innovative profiles for new economics, computer science, educational purposes and many others.
The challenge for our contemporary classroom work is to construct a curriculum that blends humanistic interests and technology. Students will learn that the codes, metadata, and interfaces of today are in constant change and thus the fundamental task will be to determine how to set up a sustainable management system for digital media and global heritage study. The learning outcome from such teaching should be the acquisition of a methodology aimed at understanding and communicating information about tangible and intangible heritage, cultural and natural sites. Each student in the World Heritage Program should learn to apply this methodology to the specialization of their field or to specific case studies within their field.
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