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Current Programme

Heritage Symposium

The Social History Project held its 8th Symposium under the theme, Heritage: Its Management and Preservation, on October 24 & 25, 2008. Seventeen presentations were made, organised in six panels. Presenters included practitioners and managers of institutions devoted to the preservation of various aspects of heritage, policy developers with state intuitions, researchers, and graduate students in the Heritage Studies programmes at Mona and Cave Hill. The Keynote guest speaker at the Opening Ceremony was the Most Honourable Edward Seaga, former Prime Minister of Jamaica, and UWI Distinguished Research Fellow. Seventy-two persons attended the two-day symposium.

Lectures in CAPE History

This book is now finally ready for publication. A total of 16 lectures, which cover Units 1 &2 of the CAPE History syllabus, were prepared by current and former staff in the Department of History & Archaeology, UWI Mona. Drs. Jenny Jemmott and Aleric Josephs are to be thanked for their work on this project. SHP Oral History Project The SHP’s oral history programme continues to benefit from the research project assignments of students who take H67D Oral History: Value & Techniques course in the MA Heritage Studies programme. This year students in the programme were asked to focus on any aspect of Jamaican/Caribbean heritage and history, and will be submitting a transcript and recording of interviews conducted. In addition, a visiting Fulbright researcher who audited the course this past semester, will submit her research into recent migrants from China to Jamaica.

Cataloguing of MA History and Heritage Research paperss & Caribbean Studies

The cataloguing of MA history and heritage research theses begun by Ritamae Hyde and Ayodele Rosemann, was completed last semester by Ms Renee Nelson, a graduate student in the Department. This allows for easy identification and retrieval of these research papers by a simple but effective filing system which is stored on the SHP computer database. I am happy to announce that a similar filing system has been applied to the 1975 to 1987 Caribbean Studies research papers and to the Oral History projects course work assignments in H67D, which was recently completed by Ms Nelson. There are plans also to catalogue other course work papers in the Heritage Studies programme which received A, A- and B+ grades. Lecturers are asked to encourage their students to visit the SHP office to peruse these papers and garner ideas for research.

SHP Office

There has been increased use of the SHP office by graduate students, but we would like to see more students taking advantage of the facilities. Two new computers were acquired in the last semester, one of which is for administrative office use only, the other being available to students.

Announcement of the New B.A. Degree in History and Heritage Studies

The Department of History and Archaeology Caribbean Studies is pleased to announce the new Bachelor of Arts Degree: History and Heritage. This programme aims at producing graduates who are socially, and culturally responsive to the mores and values of their immediate national communities as well as those of the wider Caribbean region.

The programme also aims at demonstrating the relationship between history and heritage and the practical relevance to the tourism industry. Finally, the programme aims at producing graduates that can gain employment in the Hospitality and Tourism industries.

Students who register in this programme are required to read at least thirteen 3 credit course for a total of 39 credits. Courses include Introduction to History, Introduction to Heritage Studies, Heritage Management and Tourism in the Caribbean as well as Urban Heritage of Jamaica and Family History in Jamaica.

Kathleen E. A. Monteith

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