Cultural Heritage Management

MA in Cultural Heritage Management

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The challenges of the 21st century and the expansion of heritage tourism worldwide have increased the need for forward-thinking management and preservation strategies. With a focus on emergent technology and its impact on conservation, preservation, and engagement; together with integrated approaches to management, and community and stakeholder partnerships, Johns Hopkins University offers an innovative, online graduate degree in Cultural Heritage Management. This degree program immerses students in a broad context of cultural heritage issues, including social, environmental, and economic trends, and provides them with the qualifications needed to assume leadership and management roles in the cultural heritage sector.

We train leaders in the field that embrace our shared humanity and heritage in order to advance its interpretation, documentation, preservation, and management for the betterment of a global society.

Our program is built around several guiding principles:

• We incorporate an inclusive definition of heritage beyond sites, monuments, and artifacts, to include full landscapes, environments, and intangible heritage.
• We recognize grassroots efforts and community buy-in as critical to successful management strategies.
• We support an integrated approach to management and a wide understanding of its ties to sustainability, development, and community.
• We take full advantage of our online medium by focusing on emergent technologies related to the field and their impact on preservation, engagement, documentation, and asset management.
• In addition to a sustained focus on digital technologies, the program is framed through a global lens, situating the local, regional, and national within a global context.

We welcome students from around the world interested in cultural heritage management. The interdisciplinary nature and international focus and concern of cultural heritage are supported well in the online format where domestic and international students have the opportunity to learn together.

The MA in Cultural Heritage Management faculty is made up of highly regarded experts in the heritage field and academia from diverse geographic locations. The faculty is primarily heritage practitioners who are active members of the global heritage community. They are passionate about training the next generation of heritage leaders and professionals and enthusiastic about the online course format.

Learning Outcomes

The curriculum of the Master of Arts in Cultural Heritage Management program aims for the following learning outcomes for students:

• Analyze changes in the heritage field through an assessment of their theoretical and practical impacts.
• Build leadership capacities that contribute to the growth, development, and sustainability of the heritage field.
• Examine the role of new methods and techniques (including digital technology) in the field of heritage.
• Articulate the roles of policy and advocacy in the broader heritage field.
• Evaluate the impact of heritage designation at various scales from the local to the global.
• Explore the roles of multiple constituencies in heritage management.
• Create strategies for heritage management.
• Integrate academic knowledge with applied experience unique to the field of heritage.

Hopkins invests in developing global perspectives so students can be engaged citizens wherever they are.

As a global university with students from all over the world, we welcome all kinds of experiences and new ways of thinking. We’re here to connect international students with the resources you need to become leaders and active members in our community and beyond. 

Please email [email protected] with any general international admissions questions. You can also email your regional admissions counselor if you have any questions specific to the area where you live or study.