COURSE INFORMATION
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This course offers an introduction to World Heritage Sites, which are places on earth that are of outstanding universal value to humanity and therefore have been inscribed on the World Heritage List for protection. Currently the list includes 911 properties, which are considered to have outstanding cultural value such as the Great Pyramids, Machu Picchu and Rapa Nui National Park on Easter Island, or as having natural importance such as the Great Barrier Reef and Halong Bay. This course focuses on such significant sites in Asia as the historic town of Samarkand in Uzbekistan, the Taj Mahal in India, Buddhist caves along the Silk Road, and Kyoto, the imperial city of Japan from the end of the 8th to mid-19th century, placing them in a wider historical and cultural context. This course should appeal to people with an interest in travelling, archaeology, art, history and culture.
It is not necessary to have completed Part I of this course before attending Part II.
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