Overview
Our MA Heritage offers a unique opportunity for those hoping to build a career in the heritage sector from the heart of a World Heritage Site.
We offer an innovative course which will train you in new digital skills relating to interpretation and heritage management, whilst also providing you with an awareness of the heritage sector that will allow you to develop as a practitioner for a range of careers.
Our core modules will consider how the legacy of studying heritage has direct links to inequalities in society today (considering colonialism, Empire, hidden histories among other themes) as well as the notion of heritage management practices as ‘world making and future assembling’ with the capacity to ‘assemble radically different futures’ (Heritage Futures, 2020).
You will be able to select modules from a wide range of options that will offer you routes into specialising in archaeology, tourism, education, or historical studies, developing and tailoring your skillset towards a specific career path.
Why study MA Heritage at CCCU?
The heritage sector is an important source of economic prosperity and growth in the UK. Historic England highlight that the sector supports over half a million jobs and attracts millions of domestic and international tourists each year (Heritage and the Economy, 2020).
Increasingly employment in the heritage sector requires postgraduate qualifications in order to specialise. This course will provide a link into the heritage sector for those undertaking a career change or returning to study, or offer a route into a career in the archaeological and planning sector.
A Master's degree is essential for those wishing to progress onto a PhD and this could be the lynchpin in developing your skills as an interdisciplinary researcher.
UNESCO define heritage as “our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations.”. Heritage shapes how we conceive of the world around us and this course will encourage you to think about our evolving, digital world, questions of sustainability, social justice, and community, all with our historic environment at the heart.
Our MA Heritage degree is a unique opportunity for those hoping to build a career in the heritage sector to study from the heart of a World Heritage Site.
Dr Catriona Cooper, Course Director
Entry requirements
A 2:2 honours degree or above in a relevant Humanities discipline.
We will also consider applications from those with other qualifications, those returning from education or with a relevant background. Do get in touch if you have any questions but your application will be considered on an individual basis.
Entry requirements for international students whose first language is not English include an IELTS overall score of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.5 in reading and writing.
2:2
A relevant honours degree
Module information
Core/optional modules
How you’ll learn
Students will spend approximately six to eight hours per week in seminars, workshops and lectures. Rising in some weeks to ten hours or more depending on scheduling. This course is highly practical and focuses on supporting you to develop as a practitioner with a strong grounding in the theoretical and conceptual elements of heritage. As such most content is delivered by seminar and workshop teaching. Seminars focus on sources, developments, and debates in the field, whilst workshops focus on skills training, development, and practice. Your actual contact hours will depend on the optional modules you select.
Taught postgraduate students give over more of their time to independent study, to reading, research, creating, and writing. You can expect to spend up to 160 hours per module in independent study and preparation, and to complete your assessments. Some modules such as the Dissertation are based even more on a supervision and study model, with students often spending their spring and summer months on their projects.
You should expect to spend two hours in class per course, and up to another three hours per class preparing for your seminars. You will need to spend additional time preparing your assessments. Full-time students take three modules per trimester, so each week you might expect to dedicate around thirteen hours to your in-class learning and preparation. These numbers vary considerably by module, with some modules requiring less intensive class attendance and some retaining a traditional two-hour layout. Your assessments will vary in terms of their time requirements: the Dissertation often takes many weeks of work to complete, whereas a report or presentation might be accomplished in a matter of a few days’ research and writing.
All students will be taught by full-time academic staff who are specialist teachers, researchers and authors in their respective fields, supported by Guest Lectures from industry experts. Heritage is an interdisciplinary field meaning you will be team taught by staff specialising from such diverse fields as Archaeology, Creative Writing, English Literature, History, Theology, Tourism, and more.
Discipline specific skills development is at the heart of this highly vocational and digital MA. This new postgraduate course will encourage students to directly address their specific digital, employability, and workplace skills training needs, whilst also providing a strong grounding in the theoretical areas of scholarship.
Dr Catriona CooperCourse Director
How you’ll be assessed
The interdisciplinary and vocational nature of the discipline has allowed us to make use of a variety of assessment types including exhibitions, artefacts (digital and material) and other media.
In addition to preparing essays you might be assessed through annotated bibliographies, mock reports, consultancy papers, presentations, podcasts or other digital outputs, and independent research projects. You also have the opportunity to choose if you are assessed by an extended written dissertation project or a more practical project output (worth 60-credits). This course does not set exams.
Your future career
This MA has been designed to open a range of opportunities into work or further study. Careers might include heritage consultancy in either the commercial sector or in local government, roles in heritage interpretation and communication for heritage institutions, or employment in local businesses and government institutions.
Fees
Tuition fees for this course
| UK | Overseas | |
| Full-time | £9,545 | £15,500 |
20% Alumni Discount
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Important Information on Tuition Fees
Tuition fees for all courses which last more than one academic year are payable on an annual basis, except where stated.
There will be an annual inflationary increase in tuition fees for this course where the course lasts more than one academic year. For further information read the Tuition fee statements and continuing fee information.