The Graduate Certificate in Cultural Heritage Studies provides advanced learning for emerging and mid-career individuals involved with a range of cultural heritage fields. The program is designed to strengthen both understanding and integration of cultural heritage, community engagement and sustainable development. It builds knowledge and practical management skills necessary to keep pace in today’s rapidly changing context.
You may participate in the program as a practicing professional or as an individual engaged in concurrent graduate degree studies. Visit participation options for more information.
The program is designed to be completed on a part-time basis, one course per term, to enable you to balance your studies with your personal and professional commitments or concurrent graduate study. Courses are delivered online in an engaging interactive learning environment rich in resources and tools that brings the courses alive. Courses provide opportunities to apply your learning to your workplace and community context.
The 5 course (7.5 units) program begins with a core course that focuses on the range and roles of cultural heritage in society and explores the challenges inherent in its sustainable management and development. Three subsequent courses in either museum or heritage planning specialization build on this foundation to develop your expertise in contemporary values-based approaches to your specialized practice. You choose a final elective course or internship to further specialize or to gain additional hands-on experience.
You complete the first four courses consecutively, one course per term. Your final elective or internship can be completed either concurrently with one of your required courses or in a fifth term.
| You must complete the following courses: | |
| Core Course (1.5 units): | |
| CH 560 Cultural Heritage Stewardship and Sustainability (1.5 units) | |
| Museum Studies Option (4.5 units): | OR Heritage Planning Option (4.5 units): |
| CH 561 Social Engagement (1.5 units) | CH 570 Heritage Conservation in Context (1.5 units) |
| CH 562 Curatorial Principles and Practices (1.5 units) | CH 571 Determining Significance of Heritage Resources (1.5 units) |
| CH 563 Visitor Experiences (1.5 units) | CH 572 Heritage Conservation Planning (1.5 units) |
| Elective Course (1.5 units): | |
| CH 588 Special Studies in Museum Studies (1.5 units), OR | CH 589 Special Studies in Heritage Conservation (1.5 units), OR |
| CH 591 Internship (1.5 units) | |
All GPC students are required to participate in the initial online offering of CH 560 Cultural Heritage Stewardship and Sustainability from September - December 2012, as this course addresses core concepts, provides an important orientation to the program, and builds a learning community that enriches your subsequent online studies and interactions.
As we value flexible programming that responds to your needs, the GPC also enables you to participate in concurrent or subsequent graduate degree studies in a discipline suited to your particular interests and experience.
Students currently enrolled in the Diploma in Cultural Resource Management or the Professional Specialization Certificate in Heritage Conservation Planning who are admissible to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and wish to make a transition to the graduate program, may transfer 1.5 units of HA 488 or HA 489 credit to the Graduate Professional Certificate with the approval of the Graduate Adviser. Where coursework is clearly equivalent to the 500 level courses (ie. HA 489K/CH570, HA 489C/CH571 and HA 489L/CH572), further transfers may be considered.