Enhance your cultural resources management expertise and strengthen your ability to lead and facilitate heritage conservation decision-making processes through this Professional Specialization Certificate in Heritage Conservation Planning.
Designed for busy professionals, the four lively cultural resource management courses connect you with distinguished instructors and colleagues from across Canada and beyond. Plus you can choose from six-day on-campus immersion courses or distance education offerings.
This useful, timely, and accessible program is designed to enhance your ability to:
Applicants to the Professional Specialization Certificate in Heritage Conservation Planning must normally hold a bachelor's degree or its equivalent, be admissible to UVic, and have a minimum of two years of related professional experience in the heritage sector.
Our courses are available in accessible formats to accommodate busy schedules.
These courses are offered in intensive six-day sessions, or in shorter “blended” sessions that include online components. To get you started on each course, you'll receive advance materials and a preparatory assignment to complete before your arrival. Courses are scheduled from 9 am to 4:30 pm from Monday to Saturday with occasional evening group work. Classes are small and emphasize interactivity through a stimulating mix of presentations, activities, field trips, guest speakers, and group and individual assignments.
Distance courses tend to be offered over 14-week periods. Learning at a distance has significant benefits - you can plan your learning schedule to balance professional and personal demands. You should expect to invest about 8- 10 hours per week for each distance course.
You choose the course format that best suits your work, life and learning needs. Regardless of the format, you'll interact with colleagues from across Canada and beyond in stimulating group activities while you relate your learning to practical issues in your workplace.
You are required to complete four courses to earn the professional specialization certificate:
HA 489C Determining Significance of Heritage Resources - Examine the range of historic, aesthetic, social, and scientific values that establish the significance and character-defining elements of heritage resources, buildings, and cultural landscapes and strengthen your capacity to shape decisions relating to their preservation and conservation.
HA 489K Conservation in Context - Build your capacity to undertake heritage conservation planning and decision-making within the context of core principles and guidelines, international and national conservation charters, standards of practice and legal, programmatic, and financial incentives and constraints.
HA 489L Heritage Conservation Planning - Strengthen your understanding of conservation planning and decision-making principles and processes in the management of heritage resources.
Plus an elective from our HA 489 series relating to your professional interests. With topics ranging from the conservation of heritage structures to the preservation of maritime heritage and cultural landscapes, the elective enables you to focus your learning on an area of particular interest.
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