1. Identify and understand international cultural heritage policies and guidelines. 2. Compare and contrast the approaches to safeguarding and presenting tangible and intangible cultural heritage. 3. Present and discuss complex theoretical notions connected to the issues of safeguarding cultural heritage, particularly intangible cultural heritage. 4. Provide examples and explain different issues arising from various situations and relations within a certain community related to a specific cultural heritage element. 5. Formulate one's own attitude towards future prospects of (intangible) cultural heritage in relation to the existing policies and state of the society in general or within one's own community.

1. Adell, N., Bendix, R. F., Bortolotto, C. and Tauschek, M. (eds.) (2015) Between Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice Participation, Territory and the Making of Heritage. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen.
2. Hafstein, V. Tr. (2007) Claiming Culture: Intangible Heritage Inc., Folklore©, Traditional Knowledge™. In: Prädikat “HERITAGE”: Wertschöpfungen aus kulturellen Ressourcen, Hemme, D., Tauschek, M. and Bendix, R. (eds). Berlin: LIT Verlag, 75–100.
3. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, B. (2004) Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production. Museum International 56(1-2), 52–65.
4. Labadi, S. (2013) UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value: Value-based Analyses of the World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions, New York: AltaMira Press. 
5. Smith, L. and N. Akagawa (2018) Safeguarding Intangible Heritage: Practices and Politics. London: Routledge.

1. Deacon H. J. and Smeets, R. (2013) Authenticity, Value and Community Involvement in Heritage Management under the World Heritage and Intangible Heritage Conventions. Heritage and Society 6(2), 1–15.
2. Mountcastle, A. (2010) Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Inevitability of Loss: A Tibetan Example. Studia ethnologica Croatica 22, 339–359.
3. Schreiber, H. (2017) Intangible cultural heritage and soft power–exploring the relationship. International Journal of Intangible Heritage 12, 44–57.
4. Smith, Laurajane (2015) Intangible Heritage: A challenge to the authorised heritage discourse? Revista d’Etnologia de Catalunya 39, 133–142.

1. Regular class attendance – attendance at least of 70% of classes according to the study program and executive curriculum;
2. Properly performed seminar obligations – prepared presentation and submitted and accepted written version of the seminar paper;
3. Acquisition of a minimum grade of 35% during classes within the given teaching activities
4. Oral presentation and accepted poster in electronic form on one theoretical theme or part of literature.

Teaching activities – oral presentation and poster on a theoretical theme or literature, 

presentation and written seminar paper; 

1st colloquium (written exam), 

2nd colloquium (written exam), 

final exam (written exam).