Cities of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Why Heritage Matters

This course provides an introduction to what heritage preservation is, and why it's important to save it for the global and local community. It is offered by Griffith University through Future Learn, an online education platform.

The course enables participants to develop a knowledge of community values and rights. This involves analyzing heritage case studies from across the world and recognizing the impact on local communities. Besides this, the course discusses how to get involved with heritage preservation and conservation.

Some of the learning objectives of the course are:

• Defining heritage in different built environment contexts
• Recognising and acknowledging community values in policy and practice
• Understanding different levels of engagement and different career opportunities in heritage studies, preservation and conservation