Delivered by experienced heritage professionals and leading researchers, the MA in Cultural Heritage Management provides appropriate and vital training for professional roles across the heritage sector within and outside the UK. By combining academic studies with practical applications and placement opportunities, this flexible MA programme provides an informed and up-to-date overview of heritage management theory and practice. The cultural heritage sector has expanded rapidly in recent years creating a diversity of opportunities in museums, local authorities, consultancies and agencies. The number of York’s CHM alumni now working in the heritage sector is testament to the course’s success in combining theory with practice, and to its emphasis on vocational training. Being taught within the Department of Archaeology does not mean this course is only for students with an Archaeology degree, or that the course emphasises only Archaeological heritage. Rather, this a more generalised programme which explores the multi-disciplinary nature of heritage studies. Students to recently complete the course include those with backgrounds in: History, History of Art, Politics and English as well as Archaeology. The MA will also suit students from Anthropology, Geography and Business Studies who wish to pursue a career in the increasingly diverse and lucrative heritage sector. York provides the ideal environment for heritage studies. Heritage is writ large in the landscape around the King's Manor, and in York's hinterland. There is much here to see and to think about - heritage to engage with outside of the classroom. And the number of heritage organisations based in and around York means opportunities for placements and work experience. Simply, 'York' and 'heritage' go together, and we are very pleased to offer this exciting and diverse programme within such an appropriate setting.

When you complete the course, you will have: enhanced your skills and knowledge to the point where your chances of employment as professional heritage managers have been improved developed both intellectually and personally as a result of having dealt directly with professional heritage managers developed the ability to both work within a group through seminar and placement experiences, and independently through research for a dissertation a critical understanding of the policies and practices underpinning the heritage management process a critical and theoretically developed understanding of the nature of heritage and the various uses it is put to in society