Purpose: This is a multi-purpose award-type. The knowledge, skill and competence acquired are relevant to personal development, participation in society and community, employment in heritage and related areas, and access to additional education and training and Levels 9 and 10.
Knowledge – breadth: An understanding of the theory, concepts and methods pertaining to the field of heritage studies (including: built, cultural, natural, and digital heritages) and cognate areas such as history, historiography, geography, planning, archaeology, literature, tourism, culture, memory, museology, curatorship, musicology, language, and ICT.
Knowledge – kind: Detailed knowledge and understanding in specialised areas of heritage studies, including interdisciplinary insights into the nexus between the past, present, and future.
Know-how and skill – range: Demonstrate mastery of a complex and specialised area of skills and tools pertaining to the study of heritage, including: Multidisciplinary insights into intangible, tangible, natural, and digital heritages; Fieldwork and teamwork in urban and rural environments; Knowledge of human-environment relations from prehistory to modern times; Habitat and field monument identification; Regional/national guiding, map-reading, cartographic, museological, curating, reading, literacy, language, and computing skills; Communication and presentation skills (written, oral, and aural); Critical thinking skills; Advanced academic skills for researching and writing a final-year dissertation, including archival investigations, oral history techniques, sampling, focus groups, interviews, and questionnaires.
Know-how and skill – selectivity: Exercise appropriate judgement in complex planning, design, technical, and management functions related to heritage products, services, operations, and processes, including the resourcing of these.
Competence – context: Use advanced skills to conduct scholarly research, take accountability for related decision-making, and employ analytical and creative skills in a broad range of heritage contexts.
Competence – role: Act efficiently and proactively under guidance in a peer relationship with heritage academics and practitioners.
Competence – learning to learn: Become skilled at learning about heritage in the classroom and field, by managing learning tasks in an autonomous and professional framework informed by an ethic of sustainability.
Competence – insight: Express a comprehensive, internalised, personal world view of heritage, by means of an interconnected curriculum that: Manifests solidarity with others; Draws on the past to comprehend the present; Grasps the importance of providing for a better future; Links to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of cultural, economic, environmental, and social sustainability.
