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Course Syllabus, Fall 2017

Anthropology 3170, Applied Heritage Management


Tuesdays and Thursdays 4 to 5:50 pm, Sturm Hall 154

Professor: Dr. Bonnie Clark Office: Sturm Hall 142


Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays (303) 871-2875
10–11 am & 2–3 pm bclark@du.edu

Course Description: This course focuses on legal, ethical, and community mandates for the
management of heritage sites, objects, landscapes and intangible heritage. The course takes a
balanced approach, providing theoretical, thematic, and legal background, but also explores a
wealth of actual practice with the management of heritage resources. It also engages both in the
broader field of heritage management, but also the more typical practices of cultural resources
management, especially as experienced by archaeologists. The course content will be enriched
by contributions from visiting heritage professionals.

Readings: There is one required book and one recommended book for this class, both of which
are available at the DU bookstore in Driscoll. Additional readings will be available through the
course website or on file in the Anthropology office.

Required:
King, Thomas F.
2012 Cultural Resource Laws & Practice, Fourth Edition. Rowman & Littlefield.

Recommended:
Sebastian, Lynne and William Lipe, editors (noted as S&L in the course schedule)
2009 Archaeology & Cultural Resource Management: Visions for the Future. SAR Press, Santa
Fe, NM.

Because heritage is something “out there” in the real world, you should start watching for media
pertaining to heritage management issues. You will be required to post and share a piece with
your classmates towards the end of class, but be on the lookout for something appropriate
throughout. One good way to find appropriate articles is to follow a blog like Heritage and
Society (https://blogs.umass.edu/infochs/blog/) or Sapiens (https://www.sapiens.org/) .

Course Requirements: This class has three major requirements: class participation, writing, and
research. Each member of the class needs to be prepared to contribute to class, whether through
seminar discussion of the course readings, in-class workshops, or conversations with visiting
professionals. The writing will take place throughout the class through short writing
assignments. Finally, the class will involve original research in order to prepare the final project,
a site management “product.”

Your grades will be based on your class participation, assignments, and the project. The project
will happen in phases and your progress through the term will contribute to your overall project

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grade. The grades will be weighted as follows:

Short Assignments 30%


Class Participation 40%
Final Project 30%

Course Organization: The course will involve several different kinds of class activities. Many
classes will include seminar-type discussions that revolve around our readings. Students will be
broken into two groups (A & B). Students in the appropriate group will be responsible for
contributing a written topic for the day’s discussion. We will often also break into small groups
to workshop or otherwise apply the concepts from our readings. When we have course visitors,
students will be expected to come prepared to engage with our guests; readings will need to be
completed for those meetings and the visit will include time for questions from the class. On two
occasions, students will be able to take part in heritage management events out of class time.
(These are noted with an asterisk in the schedule below.) One, the National Register Review
Board, is optional. The historic architecture survey is a required course component. However,
given that it takes place on a Saturday, students may be excused with the instructor’s prior notice.

The course organization table below includes the topic to be covered and the readings you will
be expected to be familiar with that day, as well as any assignments that might be due. Note that
there is some flexibility in these readings—some may be added or substituted based on class and
visitor feedback. The group responsible for providing discussion topics on a particular seminar
is noted under the topic header.

Topic Notes
Date (Discussion group) Reading (* = Items due in class)
(A) What is Heritage? King Chap 1; Harrison 2010; CRM Letter to the Editor; SAA ethics –
9/14 What is CRM? Stewardship
National & CO Register A sample of sites to be reviewed will be available to interested students.
Review Board meeting The review board meetings take place at History Colorado (1200
9/15* 10 am – 1 pm Broadway, in the Colorado Room/Auditorium).
Visit by Lucy Bambrey,
9/19 (B) NEPA King Chap 2; Web resource NEPA specialist, NPS
(A) The National
9/21 Register King Chap 3; Select Nomination Forms
* SA1: 106 report
9/26 NHPA - Section 106 King Chap 4; King 2007; Example reports worksheet
Treatments for Cultural Chandler 2009 (in S&L); [One exemplar
9/28 Resources treatment reading]
* Project Proposal
(B) Making it happen: Hardesty & Little 2000 (pp. 10-13; 69-91); Conference Call, Lori
10/3 Eligibility & the SHPO Sebastian 2009 (in S&L) Hunsaker, Utah BLM (4-5)
Proposal Workshop / King Chap 6; Barrett and Taylor 2007; * SA2: Eligibility
10/5 Cultural Landscapes Longstreth 2008; Koyiyumptewa & Colwell Statements
(A) Intangible Cultural Final Project Outline
Heritage, Ethnography King Chap 7 (p 293-316); Jackson 2009; (Canvas); Conference call
10/10 & TCPs Mount Taylor TCP documents Terri McBride (5-6)

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Topic Notes
Date (Discussion group) Reading (* = Items due in class)
Visit by Katy Waechter &
(B) Local Laws & Kearns & Cicornan 1991; Chung 2007; Christian Driver, Boulder
10/12 Preservation Planning Cressey 2005; Web Resources County
10/17 NO CLASS – Day off This is to compensate for class activity on Saturday, 10/21
*SA3: Mount Taylor case
study; Visit by Beth
Glandon, Historic Denver
Historic Architecture & Kathy Corbett,
10/19 and planning King Chap 5; Discover Denver readings Architectural Historian
Historic Architecture Students will work with staff and volunteers of Historic Denver to record
10/21* Survey historic buildings in a Denver neighborhood from 9 am to 12:30 pm.
(A) International
10/24 Heritage Law Donnachie 2010; Web Resources
Conference call with
Bridget Ambler, Curator,
(B) Portable heritage King Chap 7 (p 316- end); Merriman 2004; Anasazi Heritage Center
10/26 and curation Web Resources (4-5)
Public Interpretation & SAA ethics - Public Ed; Latschar 2007;
10/31 Education Public report; Heritage website * SA4: Website review
Anthro News 51(8); Timothy 2011;
11/1 (A) Heritage Tourism Hartmann 2011; Web Resources
King Chap 9; Arch Record 11(2); Sec of the *SA5: CV; Professional
Careers in Heritage Interior Standards (skim); Optional: Panel: Amie Gray, Dan
11/7 Management Altschul and Patterson 2010; Jepson, TBD
Communities – SAA ethics - accountability; Silliman and
Consultation & Ferguson 2010; Clark 2013; Optional: Upload media piece
11/9 Collaboration Ferguson 2009 (in S&L) (Canvas) for 11/14
The Future of Heritage King Chap 8; Baird 2014; Spennemann Visit by Nathan Boyless,
11/14 Management 2006; Media Pieces Metcalf Archaeology
SAA ethics - commercialization; Hanson
(B) Sticky Issues: 2011; Casana 2016; Web resources; Media
11/16 Destroying Heritage pieces
11/21 Final due by 4 pm - Heritage Project

A Note about Virtual Distractions


This class revolves around engagement with ideas and a learning community. We will host a
number of visitors who have volunteered their time to enhance your education. You cannot fully
contribute to the community of class while you are virtually elsewhere (e.g. on the internet).
Make sure to turn off and store your digital devices before the start of class. If you choose to use
your computer to take notes or access readings, switch to airplane mode prior to class, unless
otherwise instructed. A greater engagement with your screen than your colleagues will be noted
in your class participation grade.

Details about class assignments


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Discussion Topics for Seminar
Rather than relying entirely on what the instructor finds to be important in these readings,
seminars will be strongly shaped by you and your fellow students. Throughout the class you will
be responsible for providing discussion topic for the days your group is assigned. For those class
periods, while reading and taking notes on the course materials, you should identify something in
your reading to further explore in class. This should not be merely a question for the instructor
(although that might be something to bring up in class), but rather your topic should be an issue
the entire class can profitably explore. Your topic might be a noteworthy passage, an issue that
cuts across multiple readings, or an author’s position you would like to scrutinize. As written it
should be concise: 3-4 sentences at most. You will be able to expand on your written version of
the topic when you present it to the class. Discussion topics need to be posted by 10 am the day
of class to the appropriate Canvas discussion tab.

Short Assignments
Five times throughout the class you will be preparing written assignments that will generally be
5 pages or less. These assignments are directly associated with the course material and
sometimes set up the framework for activities we will do during class time. Unless otherwise
noted, you should be prepared to bring a hard copy of your assignment to class.

Final Project
Your research assignment for this class is to create some sort of a “product” for a real cultural
resource. That might be a Wikipedia page about a site or a web article about the application of
heritage law. It might be a National Register of Historic Places nomination form or a site
brochure. It could be a grant proposal to fund work with an existing collection. Students are
encouraged to choose a site or collection with which they already have or intend to have a
connection. Your final project will be accompanied by a narrative that overviews the background
research you performed, as well as justifies the project with reference to our course readings.

There are a number of milestones for this project:


1) During the week of September 25 (the third week of the class), you will need to attend office
hours to briefly discuss your possible research project.
2) On October 3, you need to bring a hard copy of your research project proposal to class. That
draft proposal should:
A) Identify and briefly describe the resource on which you will be focusing.
B) Outline and justify your proposed project.
C) Identify key resources you either have or intend to consult.
3) The following class period (October 5), we will workshop all the proposals in the class.
4) Based on the workshop and additional research, you will prepare a final project description
and upload it to Canvas by October 10. Your final outline should include all the elements of your
draft proposal, but reflect the refinement of your topic since that time. It should also indicate
that you have made some progress in your work.
5) On November 21, your project and write-up are due by 4 pm.

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