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MASTER OF ARTS HERITAGE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND MATERIALS PRODUCTION (MHRMP)

MASTER OF ARTS HERITAGE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND MATERIALS PRODUCTION (MHRMP)

Module Code	Module Name	Description
MHRMP501	Heritage and African Renaissance	Students should use their knowledge of the nature of African societies, their historical experiences to come up with theories and practical ways of improving the welfare of communities. Students should help communities develop confidence in themselves, use heritage to cultivate the sense of identity, being and belonging. The student learns about the African Renaissance and should come up with social innovations that improve the lives of the communities.
MHRMP502	Remote Sensing for Cultural Heritage	This module introduces remote sensing as a powerful, non-invasive suite of technologies essential for the modern identification and management of cultural heritage sites. Students will learn to harness data from satellite platforms, aerial photography, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to survey vast landscapes with high precision. The module places a heavy emphasis on advanced sensors, such as LiDAR that can detect hidden subterranean features and archaeological cropmarks invisible to the naked eye. Practical sessions involve the integration of these datasets into Geographic Information Systems (GIS), allowing for complex spatial analysis and 3D reconstruction of ancient environments. By the end of the module, participants will be equipped with the technical skills to manage heritage at a landscape scale, ensuring the digital preservation of fragile historic sites.
MHRMP503	Cultural Heritage Economics	Students should produce cultural products and services from the heritage that will contribute to GDP, GNP, per Capita and other avenues of development. They learn how to patent their products and be able to cost and market them. The module teaches students to consider roadside or airport art, galleries, cultural villages, museums, site museums, cultural souvenirs and curios, heritage based brands, indigenous medicines, traditional cuisines, etc as possible heritage businesses in addition to tourism ventures) causing industrialisation. Students should work with cultural economists as well as statisticians in order to understand the valuing of heritage assets and products.
MHRMP504	Heritage Conservation	Students will learn about care and conservation of heritage where they acquire knowledge on conservation of artistic expressions, architectural heritage, places, forests, soils, animals (biodiversity), safeguarding performances and crafts, conservation of biodiversity as well as World Heritage. They should be able to contribute to policy formulation and making decisions on matters that affect conservation. This includes decisions on when and how to engage in an intervention.
MIDAH501	Digital Skills for Masters	The Information and Digital Skills module for Postgraduate students introduces students to the tenets of conducting scientific research in alignment with the current scholarly communication landscape. Module aims to conduct effective literature searches and synthesise evidence, understand academic integrity and reference management, navigate the academic publishing landscape, effectively manage research data, collaborate in research and identify funding opportunities, and communicate research findings and track research impact.
MHRMP505	Intellectual Property and Heritage	The module equips students with knowledge and understanding of intellectual property law, copyright, trademarks, heritage brands and logo protection and issues of heritage ownership to be able to protect their own creations or innovations. It explores the extent of individual knowledge and skills vs communal knowledge of heritage components, heritage and entrepreneurship in a globalised world, knowledge protection and archiving in African communities. The issues dealt with also extend to oral approaches/oral archives, traditions, written and digital documentation. Case studies from Africa such as the Swarkopmund protocol and the Hoodia case in South Africa and others beyond Africa will be examined. Students will have a project/seminar presentation on IP and Legal issues around heritage.
MHRMP506	Heritage-based Materials Production and Analysis	Students use knowledge and skills from materials analysis to produce heritage-based products and services for the benefit of contemporary and future communities. The module also looks at materials production and analyses as invaluable ways of encouraging resuscitation of past technologies and means of wealth creation, preservation, conservation, safeguarding of indigenous technologies and heritage values. The module will lead to rejuvenation of societies with regards to revitalisation and revival of heritage inspired cultural creative industries, performances, protection of intellectual property, branding, trademarks and copyrights. Students should be able to extract the technology inherent in a heritage product and use it to produce new goods and services
MHRMP507	Cultural Heritage and Information Technologies	Students should produce digital products and be able to use ICTs to document, analyse, process, monitor and conserve heritage. The students learn the technologies relevant in the collection, documentation, analysis, processing heritage information and production of heritage products. The main interest is in ICT aspects such as AutoCAD, GIS, 3D modelling, Multimedia/VR/AU technologies, Database systems: eg. ARCHES and programming. The use of technology in monitoring of cultural heritage, reconstructing heritage objects and sites, e-Research, enhancement of visitor experience at cultural sites and museums, and the use of technology in sustainable tourism (environmental, economic, socio-cultural), contribution of ICT to cultural heritage management process are some of the issues that will be in the module.
MHRMP508	Community Project	Students undertake a Community project where they apply knowledge, skills and experiences from the programme to produce products (goods and services) that can be used in transforming heritage value into economic value or social value. They may work on archaeo-tourism projects that help communities.
MHRMP570	Dissertation	The dissertation shall be on an approved topic and should be submitted at the end of Part 2 of the programme. The topic should satisfy the expectations of Education 5.0 by focusing on transforming heritage knowledge into production of goods and services, being able to solve community challenges or being innovative to cause communities to behave in certain beneficial ways. It may be on digital creations with educational,economic and social value or that enhances service delivery in relevant stakeholder institutions.

MASTER OF ARTS DIGITAL HUMANITIES

MASTER OF ARTS DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Module Code	Module Name	Description
MADH501	Digital Humanities: Theories, Practices and Debates	This module will provide students with a comprehensive introduction to the exciting field of Digital Humanities, which explores the various intersections between literary and cultural studies, digital media and computing technologies. Digital Humanities (DH) is both a theoretical and methodological field: some DH work is about applying computing methodologies to literary and cultural research, to enable new insights into existing questions for literary studies; the theoretical strands of DH critically examine digital discourses and platforms – including code, interactive text, and social media, among others – from a Humanities perspective. DH critically examines the impact of digital technologies on literature, arts, and culture, with an awareness of both the continuities and discontinuities in reading practices across history, ‘from Codex to Hypertext’. The module is organised around three topic headings: theories, practices and debates. In the theory portion of the module you will explore critical theories of textuality, reading, and communication in the context of ‘new media’ and information technologies, as well as the production, distribution and consumption of literature, culture, and scholarship in the digital age. Armed with diverse theoretical frameworks, students will then explore some of the key practices and methodologies that underpin digital humanities research, including distant reading, data visualization for literary studies, and archival research and digitization. The module then explores debates at the forefront of the field, focused on access and accessibility, cultural representation, equality and the digital divide, and the ways that reading communities are constructed and interpellated via digital media, literature, history, culture and scholarship.
MIDAH501	Digital Skills for Masters	The Information and Digital Skills module for Postgraduate students introduces students to the tenets of conducting scientific research in alignment with the current scholarly communication landscape. Module aims to conduct effective literature searches and synthesise evidence, understand academic integrity and reference management, navigate the academic publishing landscape, effectively manage research data, collaborate in research and identify funding opportunities, and communicate research findings and track research impact.
MADH502	African Indigenous Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Systems	This module is multi-disciplinary designed to prepare graduate students with the necessary knowledge, skills and values of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS), which will enable them to pursue careers as practitioners in various fields and contexts. It is based on a holistic approach to understanding IKS and lays a solid foundation for students to gain academic and practical competencies which will enable them to apply theoretical knowledge and understanding in a range of contexts which includes but is not limited to health sciences, nutrition, leadership, tourism, communication, agriculture, nature conservation, arts and culture, heritage, education, law, human and social sciences, physical planning and construction. Given the importance of IKS to a community’s survival and flourishing, these knowledge bases and systems are critically important for capacity building within a nation or continent. This capacity building takes the form of developing technologies and innovation systems to sustainably meet the scientific developmental necessities. The importance of IKS in this context becomes even more critical and significant. IKS provides tremendous knowledge and technology resource bases that tend to be sustainable, and which also focus on addressing needs in appropriate cultural contexts. The module allows students to study indigenous knowledge as local ways of knowing and innovating. Students will have opportunities to deploy indigenous knowledge in developing technologies and innovation systems in health, agriculture, nutrition, arts, languages, science and technology and their management systems. The module raises the critical need for Africa to promote its own ways of innovation through indigenous systems that relate to peoples' daily lives.
MADH503	Interdisciplinary Humanities Research: Methods and Skills	The module comprises a programme of lectures and workshops. The programme will develop your research skills in a number of areas including skills, such as communicating with different audiences, using sources, texts, archives and data; frameworks, such as integrating theory into your project, ethics and (auto-)ethnography, fieldwork, knowledge production; and bringing your project together, including situating yourself within the academic field, project management techniques and sample case studies of successful projects. Summative work will focus on referencing skills and critical engagement with sources and texts for research in the form of an annotated bibliography and critical review of selected sources.
MADH504	Digital, Internet and Programming Resources in the Humanities	This module introduces students to a range of issues involved in the design, creation, management and use of electronic resources in the humanities. It seeks to familiarize students with the computing technologies and applications that are used in humanities research and teaching; providing a basis for making informed choices in the design, management and use of digital resources in the humanities; promoting understanding of the areas where access, manipulation and analysis of digital resources can benefit research and teaching in the humanities. The delivery of content and information online is becoming increasingly dynamic and device-driven. This module acquaints students to the concepts of markup for web pages, website structuring and design, and the issues involved in generating, delivering and evaluating content effectively. It uses JavaScript (ECMAscript) to introduce the fundamental principles of procedural computer programming and scripting languages. The module reinforces these concepts by practical application in the context of automated web browser and document manipulation. Applications include manipulation of web browsers and documents, dynamic generation of web content, and form verification via regular expressions. The module also provides a brief overview of a range of other common programming languages. It provides an introduction to the issues, techniques, technologies and underlying principles associated with creating and maintaining Web servers and database-driven websites. The module will describe different approaches to extending the functionality of 'plain' web sites by using structured data to build database-driven websites.
MADH505	Digitisation and Mechanisation of Cultural Heritage	This module will serve as a practice-led introduction to the digitisation and mechanisation of cultural heritage materials in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sector. It is an advanced level module taught in two ways: theory and principle-led lectures and tutorials, and hands-on sessions in the imaging lab. This module will also involve close liaison with Museums and Collections, Library Special Collections, and digitisation as well as mechanisation professionals to provide hands-on teaching to understand the practical application of digitisation and mechanization in the cultural and heritage sector. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to visit digitisation and mechanisation facilities at heritage institutions in Zimbabwe to get an understanding of different digitisation and mechanisation approaches across the heritage sector.
MADH506	Contemporary Genres: Culture in the Digital Age	This module seeks to examine genre in the digital age in three ways or senses. Firstly, we will start by considering the ways that more conventional literary, historical and cultural narratives have dramatized or represented the digital revolution or age of the internet. Secondly, we will look at narratives that have been disseminated digitally and which use digital technology like mobile apps or GPS systems. Finally we will look at genres across a range of forms, including game narratives, web series, digital music and its micro-genres, as well as collaborative fiction that uses the internet to tell / build stories collaboratively or interactively. By doing this we will both map out new genre categories but also look at the way the digital revolution might invite us to challenge the confines and hierarchies of genre.
MADH507	Digital texts in the Humanities	Despite huge advances in digital technologies, many of the approaches literary critics, historians and numerous cultural critics use remain rooted in the analogue or hardcopies age. Perhaps the only major change that computers have led to among literary critics, historians and cultural critics to date is the use of major digitised texts and archives. Even with these, many literary critics, historians and cultural critics simply use these to search and browse, never making use of their full potential or able to critique the digitised sources effectively. In the first part of this course you will look at how paper sources or hard copies are digitised and encoded to create digital literary, historical and cultural resources. This will enable students to understand how digital sources or texts are created, and encourage students to think critically about their benefits and limitations. The second part of the course explores how digitised literary, historical and cultural sources or texts can be explored and analysed in more sophisticated ways. Corpus linguistics enables us to identify and summarise themes of interest from millions or billions of words of text in ways that go far beyond simply keyword searches. It also helps the literary critic, historian and cultural critic decide which parts of a large body of text require further research and which do not.
MADH508	Digital Humanities Practicum: Inventory Building Technologies	This module provides opportunity for students to get into real-life project-based experience by working in a cultural heritage institution or private sector organisation or an existing digital humanities project where the student is assigned a mentor or supervisor from the project or institution to which the students gets attached. These projects may range, for example, from writing a scoping document for a specific digital humanities project, to creating a digital exhibition or another online resource on a specific theme or topic, to writing best practice white paper on a particular technology, digital preservation method, or new digital or mechanical idea. The module involves the application of the skills and knowledge acquired in the previous courses but in specific settings.
MADH570	Dissertation	This dissertation provides the opportunity for students to demonstrate the knowledge, understanding, research skills and techniques of presentation developed in the taught modules of the degree. The specialist field of enquiry is chosen by the student in consultation with a supervisor and other members of the department before arrival and in the first half of the semester. Individual one-to-one supervisions will be provided throughout the year to support taught modules, define and formulate a research hypothesis, identify relevant qualitative and quantitative sources, offer guidance on presentation and comment on the structure of the dissertation.

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