UNDERSTANDING HERITAGE: FROM LANDMARKS TO THEME PARKS

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What is heritage and what role does it play in determining who and what we are and what we might be? This course explores these questions seeking to explain how groups define heritage, use it, and varyingly preserve it. Topics include resource management systems, the World Heritage program, activist groups, impacts of heritage tourism and looting. (SBS and SBS-S) PREREQ: MINIMUM SOPHOMORE STANDING