HERM 301: Introduction to Heritage Resources Management (Rev. C2/B2)

HERM 301: Introduction to Heritage Resources Management introduces students to heritage resources management and creates a base for further study of the contemporary heritage field. Students study types of practice and current and emerging issues, as well as the social context, controversies, ethical questions and general concerns that characterize efforts in heritage preservation and the work carried out in museums, archives, historic places and interpretive centres. Within this theoretical and applied framework, students will begin to develop approaches and skills in administration, collecting, conservation and preservation, interpretation, audience development and visitor services.

HERM 312/HIST 316: Heritage Research (Rev. C3/C2)

This course is centred in an awareness of the broad context of heritage resources management, but it focuses on the practice, skills, and understandings of applied historical research. 

HERM 322 Heritage Collections (Rev. C3/B3)

Heritage Resources Management 322: Heritage Collections deals with the acquisition, documentation, storage, and preservation of collections.

HERM 327: Heritage Policy in Canada (Rev. C2)

Heritage is an important part of Canadian cultural policy and of Canadian social, political and economic life. Students learn about government’s role in heritage through policy and funding initiatives, and the jurisdictional issues that sharpen the expression of national, regional and provincial identity. Particular focus is given to policies designed to preserve historic places, landscapes and built environments, and for the operation of museums, archives, and similar facilities. The course provides students with an understanding of heritage policy within the wider context of state cultural policy.

HERM 491: Heritage Certificate Practicum (Rev. C1)

Gathering and conserving objects is an ancient human impulse. For thousands of years people have collected, kept, and cherished objects. These practices have many motivations and reasons, including spiritual need; economic and political objectives, such as the acquisition of personal or group social status and power; the quest for knowledge; and the expression of aesthetic sensibilities.

HERM 512: Advanced Methods in Heritage Research (Rev. C5/B5 - unpaced)

This course focuses on research that forms part of the essential heritage resources management tasks of identifying the elements of the past that are significant or meaningful, determining how and why they are meaningful, and deciding how they can best be preserved and managed as a public trust.

HERM 691: Heritage Diploma Practicum (Rev. C1)

Gathering and conserving objects is an ancient human impulse. For thousands of years people have collected, kept, and cherished objects. These practices have many motivations and reasons, including spiritual need; economic and political objectives, such as the acquisition of personal or group social status and power; the quest for knowledge; and the expression of aesthetic sensibilities.