Teaching

Listed below are the current courses offered under the direction of CSRM staff members.

Management of Cultural Heritage Sites: Tourism, Archaeology, and Preservation in the Postmodern World
University of Maryland. This course provides students with a basic knowledge of current internationally accepted approaches to the management of historic and cultural sites. Internationally known experts will speak on appropriate topics. Class members will participate in the development of a carrying capacity study for a cultural site near the College Park campus as a vehicle with which to engage the gamut of site management issues. Click here for more information on this course.

Cultural Site Management Planning
This ten-day course is taught on-site to persons with site management responsibilities. It presents the internationally-accepted site management processes and standrads that apply to archaeological and other cultural sites. It provides guidelines for site management planning. Among key topics addresses are the essential standards and data that provide the basis for site planning, determining site carrying capacity, establishing management zones, public involvement, site management unit organization, resource preservation through streamlined site monitoring, maximizing benefits from interpretative programs and tourism, and formulating effective site management programs. Please email Douglas Comer for more information concerning this course.