Crash Courses

Crash course(s) to fill interdisciplinary gaps for students with a prevailing disciplinary training. This means that engineering graduates will follow a short course on the fundamentals of archaeological investigation, landscape survey, monument preservation, cultural resource management and cultural communication, aimed at giving substance and theoretical foundations to the applications they already have studied. Such course is similar to those planned by the Ename Center for the year 2004 basing on their multi-annual experience of summer schools. On the other side, humanities graduates will follow a short advanced course on technology, including databases and text encoding, multimedia, 3D modelling and digital data acquisition.

The program may be similar to the one developed by PIN for the master course on “Museum communication of anthropological and archaeological heritage”. Such courses will aim at bridging between disciplines and providing a sound basis in the “other” field to achieve a good overall knowledge of heritage / technology theory and practice.

This basis will provide a holistic view, on which further training will provide specialization. These courses will be common consortium activity and will benefit of the wide experience partners have in graduate studies. They will produce a common syllabus. Such courses are in principle open to other (paying) participants, not supported by the CHIRON project.