Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university. The main field of study must be within the humanities or the social sciences. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following knowledge and skills:

• Knowledge of philosophical and epistemological foundations of cultural heritage and applications in the context of digital humanities
• Knowledge of contemporary social, economic and legal aspects for dissemination and discovery of digital cultural heritage
• An operational breadth of knowledge of contemporary international and national digital heritage projects, infrastructures, and policies
• The skill to independently seek, critically analyse and integrate information to develop solutions to and participate in problem-solving on complex issues in the areas of digital cultural heritage research and management

Content

This introductory course provides students with theoretical and methodological approaches to cultural heritage and fosters a critical understanding of digital media in production, preservation, dissemination of cultural recourses. To promote nuanced and contextualized knowledge as well as stimulate critical reflection, the emphasis is placed on debates about contemporary social, economic and legal implications for digital cultural heritage development. During the course, students will learn about the existing national and international regulations, policies and projects focused on the research and management of digital cultural heritage.

Instruction

The course consists of lectures, seminars, fieldwork, workshops and group site visits. Participation in seminars, workshops and group site visits are mandatory. Absence from any of these will need to be compensated.

Assessment

The course is examined by active participation in seminars and workshops, written assignments as well as oral and written reports on final group project. Final grades are based on a weighted assessment of results from the examination elements.

Taking off from group site visits and fieldwork in the GLAM sector, students will develop a portfolio for the final group assignment to demonstrate the understanding of key theoretical concepts and analytical tools, introduced throughout of the course.

Active participation in the examined seminars is a requirement fulfiling the course requirements. Any student who misses a single compulsory teaching element will be required to submit a supplementary assignment, the scope of which will reflect the workload that would have been required to actively participate in the teaching element in question.

Generally speaking, the course will include one ordinary examination opportunity plus one retake. The date of the retake will also be the deadline for submitting supplementary assignments. Thereafter, students will be referred to the next occasion on which the course is held, which as a rule will be during the following academic year.

Students who wish to complete supplementary assignments from a previous course will preferably be given an assignment based on current course content.

All elements of the course will be assessed with one of the grades fail, pass or pass with distinction.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.