Heritage Resources Management Minor

The Minor in Heritage Resources Management is designed to provide the tools to understand contemporary heritage conservation as a theoretical and applied field. It offers an opportunity for students to add variety and depth to their studies and expand the scope of their BA Major fields.

Minor (30 credits distinct from the major in a related discipline)

Required Core Courses (21 credits)

HERM 301	Introduction to Heritage Resources Management	(3)
HERM 312/HIST 316	Heritage Research	(3)
HERM 322	Heritage Collections	(3)
HERM 327	Heritage Policy in Canada	(3)
HERM/PHIL 334	Professional Ethics in Heritage Resources Management	(3)
HERM 342	General Principles of Planning Historic Places	(3)
HERM 361	Interpretive Programming	(3)
	or
HERM 339	Conservation

Elective Courses (9 credits)

A minimum of nine (9) credits is required. All nine (9) credits must be taken from one area of study as outlined below.

 Area of Study 1: Anthropology

Any ANTH courses 300 level or above

Area of Study 2: History

Any HIST courses 300 level or above

Area of Study 3: Administration and Management

ACCT 250	Accounting for Managers	(3)
ACCT 253	Introductory Financial Accounting	(3)
ADMN 232	Introduction to Management	(3)
HRMT 300	Human Resources Planning	(3)
HRMT 387	Strategic Human Resource Management	(3)
GOVN 380/HSRV 363	Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Governance	(3)
LGST 331	Administrative Law	(3)
MKTG 396	Introduction to Marketing	(3)

Area of Study 4: Visual Culture

ARHI 201	A Survey of Western Art I: Looking at Art from Ancient Times to the Middle Ages	(3)
ARHI 202	A Survey of Western Art II: Looking at Art from the Renaissance to Present Day	(3)
ARHI 301	Canadian Visual Culture	(3)
CMNS 425	Film and Genre	(3)

Area of Study 5: Culture and Society

CMNS 302	Communications in History	(3)
CMNS 358	Popular Culture and the Media	(3)
CMNS 401	Cultural Policy in Canada	(3)
CMNS 423	The Television Age	(3)
CLST 325	Understanding Cultural Studies	(3)

Area of Study 6: Second European Language

Any 200-level or above courses in SPAN
	or
Any 200-level or above courses in FREN

Area of Study 7: Indigenous Studies

INST 203	Indigenous Studies I	(3)
INST 205	Indigenous Studies II	(3)
INST 358	Aboriginal Women in Canada	(3)
INST 368	Indigenous Peoples of Canada to 1830	(3)
INST 369	Indigenous Peoples of Canada since 1830	(3)
INST 370	The Métis	(3)

Area of Study 8: Science and the Public

ENVS 200	Introduction to Environmental Studies	(3)
ENVS 243	Environmental Change in a Global Context	(3)
ENVS 435	Transformative Change in Building Sustainable Communities	(3)
ENVS 461	The History and Politics of Ecology	(3)
GEOL 207	Introduction to Environmental Geology	(3)
GEOG 265	Introduction to Physical Geography I	(3)
GEOG 266	Introduction to Physical Geography II: Lithosphere and Biosphere	(3)

Area of Study 9: Architecture

ARCH 200	History of Ideas in Architecture I	(3)
ARCH 300	History of Ideas in Architecture II	(3)
ARCH 320	History of Canadian Architecture	(3)
ARCH 330	Architectural Design Theory Fundamentals	(3)
ARCH 340	History and Theory of Modernism	(3)
ARCH 350	Landscape	(3)
ARCH 400	Urbanism	(3)
ARCH 420	Contemporary Architectural Theory and Research	(3)

Transfer Credit

For students seeking transfer credit, equivalent courses that are not listed here but which are easily demonstrated to have relevance to the required Core courses or the Elective courses, may be counted towards the credit requirement for the Minor in HRM on approval of the program director.