Please note: This course description is provisional and still subject to changes.
Admission requirements
Open to any track in Archaeology. Please cross-list the course with the Postcolonial and Heritage Studies and the Anthropology BA programmes. Completion of BA-1. Otherwise with consent of Instructor.
Description
This course brings together students from Leiden University and a university in Egypt, Jordan or Lebanon for a virtual international collaboration focused on heritage management in post-conflict settings. Through intercultural engagement, co-creation, co-design, and applied and critical heritage studies, students will work in small international teams to develop heritage management and educational strategies and an end-product.
The focus is on understanding memorialisation, recovery and community empowerment from a comparative perspective and in a grounded way. Virtual, online platforms will facilitate exchange and collaboration between students and the partner university, leading to a tangible end-product focused on Palestine. Using digital tools, collaborative methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches, students will critically engage with issues of heritage destruction, community, trauma, healing and reconciliation in post-conflict societies. The course is project-based, culminating in making a heritage management plan and/or digital heritage product. Students will also address the ethics and challenges of intercultural collaboration, community engagement and participatory research in sensitive contexts.
Course objectives
Develop skills in intercultural exchange, dialogue and understanding by working with students in a different country;
Develop skills in virtual collaboration, working in international teams;
Develop analytical skills in assessing culture and the impact of conflict;
Apply interdisciplinary theories and methods relating to community, education, memorialisation, and recovery in a real-world context;
Use digital and web-based tools to document, analyse and present a cultural heritage and educational case-study;
Engage ethically with project partners in vulnerable, conflict-affected areas;
Develop a heritage project that is a culturally-responsive heritage management plan or digital heritage resource.
Timetable
Course schedule details can be found in MyTimetable.
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Mode of instruction
Virtual seminars and workshops using live online sessions, including discussions and collaboration;
Group work and practical work in which you work collaboratively in small international teams asynchronously and synchronously on a joint project;
Self-study and research in which you independently search and engage with academic literature, project materials, and digital tools and resources to support your project development;
Peer feedback and reflection involving structured discussions and peer-reviewing;
Project presentation of your heritage management plan or digital heritage output in an online form.
Attendance in workgroups is compulsory for the entire course.
Assessment method
Assessment consists of the following components:
Attendance and participation in workgroups and other practical time;
Weekly progress, development and feedback (40%);
Final project (60%).
The final grade for the course is established by (a) sufficiently fulfilling component 1 above (attendance and participation), combined with (b) determining the weighted average of components 2 and 3 above.
All the above components must be completed to pass the course, and all components must fulfil the requirements specified for them on Brightspace. Attendance and participation in all seminar workgroups and other practical time has to be sufficient.
A retake is only possible for the final project, and only if all other requirements have been met, including handing in the final project before the deadline. A retake is not possible for attendance and participation, or for weekly progress, development and feedback.
The weekly progress reports and the final project have to be submitted through Brightspace, and submitted by the deadlines. Late submissions result in deducted grades as follows: 1-24 hrs late, -1.0; 24-48 hrs late, -1.5; 48-72 hrs late, -2.0; 72-96 hrs late, -2.5 (all stated hours include weekends and holidays). Submissions more than 4 days late (including weekends and holidays) will not be accepted.
Every partial or component grade has to be 5.5 or higher. To pass the course, the weighted mean of partial grades has to be 5.5 or higher. Compensation of partial grades is only possible for the presentation of research (component 3, which has a partial grade of less than 30% of the final course grade), and only if course components were completed on time. All assessment parts must be completed in the same academic year. No partial marks can be carried over into following years.
Reading list
To be announced at course start
Registration
Registration start dates for the BA2 seminars differ from the registration dates of the regular courses.
Registration will take place with the use of forms. These will be e-mailed by the Administration Office to all BA2 students at the beginning of October.
Contact
For more information about this course, please contact Dr. Ian R. Simpson.