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University of Aberdeen: Heritage and Memory Studies

Institution University of Aberdeen View institution profile
Department School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture View department profile
Web www.abdn.ac.uk/llmvc
Email pgadmissions@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone 01224 272090
Study type Taught

Summary

Earn a graduate qualification in Heritage and Memory Studies, and explore issues of remembering the past in the modern world. Join us online to consider the issues of remembering the past in the modern world.

In this flexible postgraduate certificate (PgCert), you’ll explore how we, as individuals and societies, define our identity through cultural memory and connections to the past. With guidance from experts in cultural studies, media and film studies, art history, museum studies, and politics, you’ll develop your skills in the theories and approaches used in current research into memory and heritage. You’ll examine questions of identity and memorialisation across a wide range of media, from urbanism and monument culture, to photography and comics.

This innovative online qualification draws on interdisciplinary expertise in Holocaust and genocide studies, memory studies, urbanism, museum studies, local and global material and intellectual heritage, special collections, and visual culture. Through these varied fields, you’ll develop in-depth insight into the interdisciplinary nature of memory and heritage transmission, exploring a range of historical contexts and their aftermath, as well as various types of representation and media.

Postgraduate Certificate - PgCert

Study within one of Scotland’s oldest and most culturally rich academic communities.

The School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture (LLMVC) is part of a university founded in 1495, with a long heritage of scholarship in the humanities and creative arts. Today, the School brings together a uniquely interdisciplinary environment where students explore how language, creativity and culture shape our world.

We teach a diverse cohort of undergraduate, postgraduate and research students from across the globe. The wider University community includes around 14,000 students representing over 130 nationalities, fostering a vibrant international environment. Our staff are active …

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