Upcoming courses in Cultural Resource Management, Sep

The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria is offering three 6-day courses in September 2015. Join us for one, two, or all three. Credit program and non-credit professional development options are available.

Contact crmcoord@uvic.ca for more information or visit our webpage: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/cultural/undergraduate/courses/upcoming/

Cultural Landscapes (HA489G); 6-day on campus offering; Sep 14-19

Join instructor Wendy Shearer for this course and develop your ability to identify, evaluate, and prepare preservation strategies for landscape resources that are integral to your community. From the landscapes associated with historic buildings, industries and rural communities to traditional use sites of First Nations peoples, cultural landscapes are tremendously diverse resources that present special preservation and management challenges.

Cultural Tourism (HA489H); 6-day on campus offering; Sep 21-26

Join instructor, Steven Thorne, in Victoria, BC, from Mar 30-Apr 4, 2015 to explore how to make the most of the fast-growing market for cultural tourism. Whether you manage or market a museum, gallery, festival, heritage attraction or other cultural experience, or work for an economic development agency or destination marketing organization, this course offers marketing tools and development strategies that will help you succeed. Special emphasis will be placed on the theory and practice of "place-based" cultural tourism in the context of destination planning.

Intangible Cultural Heritage (HA488M); 6-day on campus offering; Sep 28- Oct 3 NEW COURSE

Join instructor Dale Jarvis, Folklorist and Intangible Cultural Heritage Development Officer for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, for this new course on Intangible Cultural Heritage. Topics covered will include: the nature and value of intangible cultural heritage; the significant challenges associated with safeguarding and interpreting these resources; hands-on approaches to ethnographic documentation; and ideas for taking intangible concepts and turning them into practical approaches and projects. The course will guide you through what intangible cultural heritage can mean for your community, and will give colourful examples of how organizations locally and internationally are working to safeguard living heritage.