- Duration: 3 Years
- Department: History
Introduction
The Bachelor of Arts in History, Cultural Heritage Management and Tourism is a three-year programme that aims to bring historical consciousness to the centre of cultural heritage and tourism thinking and practice.
Objectives of the Programme
At the end of the programme, graduates shall be able to: a.Develop a broad and comparative knowledge of the general scope of the subject of history, cultural heritage and tour management. b.Understand how history can be applied in cultural heritage and tourism to produce national histories that foster pride, identity, and traumatic experiences. c.Produce historical narratives from cultural heritage and tourism that underscores national histories, identities, and trauma, and market cultural heritage and tourism for national foreign exchange. d.Promote national memories, culture, identity, pride and articulate ways of dealing with memory, remembrance and trauma.
Career Prospects
a.Entrepreneurial opportunities: Graduates of the programme can establish entrepreneurial prospects in various areas as consultants for historical, cultural and heritage preservation, historical site consultant, establish cultural and heritage companies, tourism experts, establish travel companies, and tour guide service companies. b.Employment opportunities: Graduates of the programme can consider employment opportunities in heritage institutions, museums, heritage management institutions and organizations, archives and documentation centres, regional and district cultural offices, ministries and ministerial departments, public institutions, historical sites, and research institutions. They can be employed as professional historians, historians in national and international institutions/organisations, cultural officers. c.Leadership/Community-based opportunities: Graduates of the programme can also consider leadership roles or community-based roles where they can use their knowledge and skills in cultural and heritage development campaigns, preservation of community historical wealth and be social campaign experts for their communities.