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Team Project: Archaeology & Heritage - ARC00012I

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  • Department: Archaeology
  • Module co-ordinator: Information currently unavailable
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: I
  • Academic year of delivery: 2021-22

Module summary

The Team Project gives students the opportunity to work together to carry out an assessment of a case study with proposed redevelopment or change that would impact on the archaeology and heritage of the site. You will use the skills developed during your Practical Skills Module to identify the key threats to the site and to assess the significance of the site and present your work in a professional report. Through this module students will  develop and apply their project and time management skills, communication skills and professional report writing skills. 

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Summer Term 2021-22

Module aims

Building upon the practical option that you took in the Spring term (Term 5), Team Projects allows you to practice the subject-specific skills that you learnt over that period. The module will split students into teams to analyse and evaluate a dataset or case study with the overall aim of producing a report to professional standards on the material they have examined.

This specific module aims to:

  • To provide experience in working as a team on a shared project

  • To build skills in the analysis and interpretation of heritage data such as development proposals

  • To train, through practice, the skills necessary to the production of a professional-standard archaeological report.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  • Identify and undertake research on a heritage asset to determine its significance

  • Allocate and co-ordinate tasks, and communicate efficiently as a team

  • Produce a group report to a professional standard

Module content

In this module, students will work together in small teams, building on the experience from last term to investigate a site and produce your own statement of significance. You will be thinking carefully about the threats, or potential improvement, development work might have to the case study sight Together, you will agree the areas of research and report writing required, to assess the potential impact of development or change to the site. You will agree a timetable for the work and meet regularly to share findings and ideas. The final report will demonstrate your successful team working and ability to produce a report following professional standards and guidance. Support throughout the module will be given by module and group sessions with the tutor.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Groupwork
Report		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Report		 N/A 100

Module feedback

Formative: Groups keep logbooks of work carried out and discuss progress with their module leader each week.

Summative: Written feedback sheets will be released within 20 working days of the submission deadline, along with your overall mark for the module. If you have any questions about your mark and/or your written feedback, you will be able to sign up for office hours with the marker.

Indicative reading

Shirvani Dastgerdi, A., & De Luca, G. (2018). ‘Specifying the Significance of Historic Sites in Heritage Planning’ in Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 18(1). pp.29-39.

Historic England 2019 Statements of Heritage Significance: Analysing Significance in Heritage Assets  https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/statements-heritage-significance-advice-note-12/

UNESCO World Heritage Centre. 2013. New Life for Historic Cities: The Historic Urban Landscape Approach Explained.  Paris: UNESCO

Detailed reading for the module will be available via YorkShare (the University's virtual learning environment). When you have enrolled on a module, you will be able to access the full reading list.


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