Heritage and Memory Studies (Online) (Taught)

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.

Interdisciplinary learning
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.

Teaching that’s tailored to you
With a flexible course structure and a range of topics to explore, you can choose areas of particular focus to tailor your qualification to your interests.

Who can join this online PgCert in Heritage and Memory Studies?
This distance-learning PgCert is open to graduates in any discipline. It’s ideal for professionals who are active in the field of memory transmission, working in heritage or museums, and those interested in exploring a specific heritage and questions of memory policy.

Teaching is delivered through MyAberdeen, our online Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It holds all the materials, tools and support you’ll need in your studies.

This PgCert is assessed online. We’ll use several types of assessment throughout your studies, including individual design projects
critical reviews, essays, and presentations.