Heritage Planning - MA

(Full-time or part-time)

The course is aimed at professionals working in the heritage field and those with undergraduate degrees in Planning, Human Geography, related social sciences and design-based disciplines who wish to develop their knowledge and competencies in the heritage and conservation sector.

The course combines elements discretely related to the purpose and practice of heritage conservation with a wider context of material related to the wider aspects of town and regional planning in the UK.

Today heritage is no longer seen as being only about preserving the past. The historic built environment is now increasingly embedded within programmes to create economic and community regeneration and a means of support to community cohesion and identity. The course reflects this new dynamism within the sector.

The course is both knowledge and skills based and is designed to equip students with an understanding of the debates around the nature, identity and evaluation of what we term 'heritage'; it provides an intellectual map of a dynamic and changing heritage sector, and the processes, procedures and roles through which heritage planners contribute to the development of sustainable communities and the making of spaces and places.

Since the course also contains a broadly based component reflecting developments within the planning system of the UK as a whole, successful completion of the course will enable students to achieve specialist recognition by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI).

For those students with an undergraduate qualification in Planning, this course will enable progression to full membership of the RTPI.

Entry Requirements:

An honours degree from a UK university, in an appropriate discipline, or an equivalent qualification, or a degree with a minimum of two years' experience in heritage planning, conservation or heritage planning-related post, or demonstrable knowledge and competencies which have been gained from past professional and/or personal experience.

Key facts
Course Code: HERLP
Place of study: Civic Quarter
Start date: September
Length of study: Full-time 1 year. Part-time 2 years.

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