UMA Graduate Bulletin 2017-2018 Certificate Programs Cultural Landscape Management Certificate Program Overview
Program Overview
With 15 credits of required and elective courses, you can add a Certificate in Cultural Landscape Management to your master’s degree. What Are Cultural Landscapes? What Is Cultural Landscape Management? Cultural landscape management requires written and graphic research, documentation, and analysis of landscapes. Sources of data include historic documents, maps, and plans, but also interviews and other consultation with the people who live in, and have shaped, landscapes. Cultural landscape management also involves the production of proposed plans, landscape designs, and interpretive schemes for places in order to serve the needs of residents, managers, and visitors. The Cultural Landscape Management Certificate curriculum reflects current theory and methods as practiced by consultants and by professionals within government agencies and non-profit organizations. Requirements The Cultural Landscape Management Certificate will be awarded following the completion of fifteen credits of required and elective courses with electives chosen from a predetermined list. Required Courses (six to nine credits, at least two of the following three courses) Elective Courses, group one (three to six credits) LANDARCH 603 – Heritage Landscape Studio (Fall) NB: Internships or applied experiences with a specific emphasis on cultural landscape management may be approved by the certificate program coordinator as a three-credit elective. Elective Courses, group two (three to six credits) Anthropology Architecture & Design History
The Cultural Landscape Management Certificate is available to University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate students enrolled in a degree program in any department. The certificate is also available to non-degree students through enrollment in the University of Massachusetts Continuing and Professional Education (for application and enrollment policies, see http://www.umassulearn.net/). All applicants for the certificate should submit a brief resume and a one-page letter of interest to the certificate program coordinator, Ethan Carr, for admission to the program. The letter of interest should state the candidate’s reasons for interest in the certificate program, including suggestions for specific areas of concentration and interest. Applicants should contact one of the listed program advisors below to discuss their application.
Elizabeth Brabec, ebrabec@larp.umass.edu |
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