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Latvian Culture Environment

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Course abstract

The main course objective is to introduce with formation of cultural environment, its material, social and spiritual aspects in Latvia. Course explores crucial formative objects of cultural environment and involvement of society in making and maintaining the cultural environment. That will allow evaluate the meaning of cultural environment, the necessity of maintaining it, and understand the possibilities to participate in its formation.

Learning outcomes and their assessment

1. Knowledge: a student knows cultural-historical heritage, understands Cultural environment sence and it’s connection with rural tourism entrepreneurship – seminars’ discussions, final written test.
2. Professional skills: a student is able to evaluate formative factors of cultural environment and their potential in forming of tourism and other entrepreneurship – seminars’ discussions, final written test.
Soft skills: a student is able to plan tasks responsibly, to analyse information, to participate in group activities – seminars’ discussion, student’s paper and its presentation, test work.
3. Competence: a student is able to solve problems of composition and maintenace of cultural environment and to justify his decisions on tourism entrepreneurship– seminars’ discussion, student’s paper and its presentation, test work.

Course Content(Calendar)

1. Cultural environment and culture-space (lecture 1h, seminar 1h).
2. The historiography of Cultural environment in Latvia (lecture 1h, seminar 1h). (lecture 1h, seminar 1h).
3. Material, social and spiritual formative aspects of Cultural environment (lecture 1h, seminar 1h)).
4. Impact of the economic situation on the cultural environment (lectures 1h, seminars 1h)
5. Differences in cultural environment of Latvian regions (lecture 1h, seminar 1h).
6. Cultural and historical objects as part of the cultural environment (lecture 1h, seminar 1h).
7. Protection of cultural monuments in Latvia (lecture 1h, seminar 1h).
8. Traditions as spiritual aspect shaping cultural environment (lecture 1h, seminar 1 h).
9. Including Tradition in Business (lecture 1h, seminar 1h
10. The importance of religion in Latvia's cultural environment (lecture 1h, seminar 1h
11. Influence of educational and cultural institutions in shaping Latvian cultural environment (lecture 1h, seminar 1h).
12. Role of municipalities and NGOs in shaping the cultural environment (lecture 1h, seminar 1h).
13. Latvian urban cultural environment (lecture 1h, seminar 1h).
14. Riga as Latvian Culture Centre (lecture 1h, seminar 1h).
15. Multicultural environment and transculturism (lecture 1h, seminar 1h).
16. The impact of modern technologies on the cultural environment (lecture 1h, seminar 1h).

Requirements for awarding credit points

Exam (written test). Exam’s accumulating assessment of study results: participation in seminars’ discussions (20%), final written test (40%), student’s paper and its presentation (30%).
Scientific literature chosen by a lecturer must be studied and discussed during seminars. Student’s paper must be elaborated and presented. Final written test in the end of the course. Scientific literature chosen by a lecturer must be studied and discussed in workshops (seminars). Own-initiative work must be drawn up and presented.

Description of the organization and tasks of students’ independent work

1. The studies of scientific literature chosen by a lecturer for preparation of seminars’ topics.
2. Presentation of a subject selected by the student and accepted by the instructor.

Criteria for Evaluating Learning Outcomes

Seminars – participation in seminars’ discussions, by justifying student’s opinion and answering questions. Participation in each seminar is evaluated in 3 grades scale: 1 – medium, 2 – good, 3 – very good. Results are summed up in the end of semester.
Presentation are evaluated with single grade according grade scale 10.
Final written test – evaluated in grade scale 10.

Compulsory reading

1. Latvijas kultūras vēsture. A.Avotiņa, D.Blūma, A.Līdaka, I.Ņefedova, E.Šmite. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2004. 507 lpp.
2. Bendiksens P. Ievads kultūras un mākslas menedžmentā. Rīga: Jāņa Rozes apgāds, 2008. 382 lpp.
3. Par kultūras pieminekļu aizsardzību: LR likums [tiešsaiste]. Pieņemts: 12.02.1992. [Skatīts 20.03.2020.]. Pieejams: https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=72551

Further reading

1. Žurnāls "Vides Vēstis". ISSN 1407-2939. Pieejams tiešsaistē http://www.videsvestis.lv/
2. Žurnāls "Latvijas Architektūra". ISSN 1407-4923

Periodicals and other sources

1. Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls. LU Latvijas vēstures institūts.Rīga: Latvijas vēstures institūta apgāds.
2. Meklējumi un atradumi: rakstu krājums. LU Literatūras, folkloras un mākslas institūts.Rīga: Zinātne, 2004-
3. Vides Vēstis. Zaļā dzīves stila žurnāls/biedrība "Vides Vārds"