Checking date: 30/04/2020


Course: 2019/2020

Cultural Heritage
(13070)
Bachelor in Tourism (2008 Study Plan) (Plan: 152 - Estudio: 209)


Coordinating teacher: CASTRO MORALES, FEDERICO

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: History, Geography and Art Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
None
The student will learn the basic technical principles on cultural heritage to develop tourism management and complete their cultural knowledge. At the end of the course, students will be able to develope the following specific skills: -Documented on cultural heritage -Recognize cultural heritage elements which can develop tourist activities -Management studies on cultural heritage in the tourism sector -To recognize the destabilizing elements of cultural heritage -Analyze the impacts generated by tourism on cultural heritage -Understand the characteristics of the management of cultural heritage -Recognize the general principles of sustainable tourism -Understand the principles of tourism, including its cultural dimension -Propose criteria for sustainable tourism in cultural heritage With regard to the general abilities or skills, the student will be able to: -The ability to search, communicate and discriminate what information is relevant to a particular decision -The ability of concern for sustainability in all fields -The ability to apply multidisciplinary knowledge to solving a particular problem The student must have the following attitudes at the end of the course: -An attitude of study and analysis to the heritage -A Respectful attitude towards cultural heritage -A Critical attitude towards tourist activities in equity
Description of contents: programme
SUBJECT 1. CONCEPT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE: REVISIONS AND EXTENSIONS SUBJECT 2. GENESIS AND CONFIGURATION OF THE HERITAGE SUBJECT 3. TYPOLOGIES AND LEVELS OF PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SUBJECT 4. INVESTIGATION AND DOCUMENTATION SUBJECT 5. SPECIAL HERITAGES SUBJECT 6. MAIN CONTAINERS OF MOVABLE PROPERTY: MUSEUMS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES SUBJECT 7. PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF THE HERITAGE SUBJECT 8. COMMUNICATION AND PROMOTION OF THE CULTURAL HERITAGE SUBJECT 9. CURRENT NEWS
Learning activities and methodology
The teaching methodology will include: master-classes, in which the knowledge that students should acquire will arise. Study of cases that relate the link between cultural heritage and tourism for better understanding of the respect that should be the cultural heritage from tourism management. -Practices which carry out activities that link tourism activities and cultural heritage Visits to cultural property. -Seeing of documentaries and films related to the agenda of the subject.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Basic Bibliography
  • Abad González, L.. El patrimonio cultural como factor de desarrollo: estudios multidisciplinares. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. 2006
  • Campillo Alhama, C., & Martínez Sala, A. M.. La estrategia de marketing turístico de los Sitios Patrimonio Mundial a través de los eventos 2.0.. Universidad de Alicante. 2019
  • Cano de Mauvesín Fabaré, J. M. C.. Turismo cultural: manual del gestor de patrimonio.. Almuzara. 2005
  • García Hernández, M.. Turismo y conjunto monumentales: capacidad de acogida turística y gestión de flujo de visitantes. Tirant lo Blanch. 2003
  • García Hernández, M. G. . Capacidad de acogida turística y gestión de flujos de visitantes en conjuntos monumentales: el caso de La Alhambra. en PH n.36 dossier 11: Turismo en ciudades históricas.. Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Histórico de Andalucía. 2001
  • González, M. V.. Gestión turística del patrimonio cultural: enfoques para un desarrollo sostenible del turismo cultural en Cuadernos de turismo, (23), 237-254.. Universidad de Murcia. 2009
  • Lord, B., Lord, G. D., & Fullola Pericot, J. M.. Manual de gestión de museos. Ariel. 2018
  • Lorenzo Aspres, A. . Monumentos convertidos en hoteles: el sacrificio de la memoria arquitectónica. El caso de Santo Estevo de Ribas de Silen Pasos: Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, 15(3). Universidad de La Laguna. 2017
  • Medina, A. M.. El turismo patrimonial en la inducción del desarrollo territorial, en VII Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo, Barcelona-Montevideo, junio 2015. . Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: Departament d¿Urbanisme i Ordenació del Territori. 2015
  • Querol, M. Á.. Manual de gestión del patrimonio cultural. Akal. 2010
  • Troitiño Vinuesa, M. A.. Ciudades patrimonio de la humanidad: patrimonio, turismo y recuperación urbana. Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. 2009
  • UNESCO. Convención sobre la protección del patrimonio mundial cultural y natural. UNESCO. 1972
  • UNESCO. Recomendación sobre la Protección de los Bienes Culturales Muebles . UNESCO. 1978

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.