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Heritage Education Programs

UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA

Cultural Resources Management Program

Find out more about the CRMP Diploma program for people involved with museums, galleries, heritage agencies, and other cultural organizations, and a Professional Specialization Certificate in Heritage Conservation Planning.

The program is taking a new approach to its two introductory online survey courses. Starting this fall, the following instructors will oversee these online offerings and interact with participants to explore the relevance of course materials to their experience and practice:

• Victoria Angel, Manager of the Federal Heritage Buildings Review Office (FHBRO) of Parks Canada, will serve as instructor for Heritage Resource Management, the heritage conservation core courses. Victoria holds a B.A. in Art History and an M.A. in Heritage Conservation from Carleton University.
                                                                               
• Deborah Tuyttens, Museum Supervisor at Burnaby Village Museum, will serve as instructor for both the fall and spring Museum Principles and Practices courses that cover the role of museums in society and their core functions. In addition to her extensive experience in the museum field, Deborah brings an MA in Anthropology with a museum studies specialization, and an MBA with a cultural heritage specialization to her work and teaching.

You can take these courses on a non-credit basis to strengthen your foundations for cultural heritage practice, or as a starting point for a Diploma in Cultural Resource Management.

» www.uvcs.uvic.ca/cultural/

THE VANCOUVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Old School : Courses for Building Conservation

Old School is a unique educational program, open to the public, which offers certification and Professional Development Credits, for contractors or renovators, trades people, realtors, planners or City staff, architects, appraisers, designers, engineers, building managers or inspectors, do-it-yourselfers, heritage commission members and homeowners. Whether you already work with existing buildings or would like to increase your knowledge about heritage conservation, this program offers certification, learning credits and invaluable content specific to older buildings.

» Vancouver Heritage Foundation

COLLEGE OF NEW CALEDONIA & SD 28 QUESNEL

Heritage Preservation Trade Skills

A partnership between School District 28, College of New Caledonia and the provincial Heritage Branch, this course teaches the skills necessary to preserve heritage structures.

Building Conservation Training Program

Students will benefit from a $30,000 provincial grant to the College of New Caledonia in Quesnel for the development of the Building Conservation Trades Training Program, announced by heritage minister Bill Bennett on April 8. The funding is being provided as part of the government’s partnership with the College of New Caledonia.

The Building Conservation Trades Training Program is a heritage-focused curriculum that incorporates online eLearning, classroom instruction and hands-on field experience at various sites throughout B.C., including Cottonwood House Historic Site and Barkerville Historic Town.

The College of New Caledonia will partner with School District 28 and Barkerville Heritage Trust to deliver the Building Conservation Trades Training Program. The program will be supported and developed in consultation with the provincial Heritage Branch, the University of Victoria Cultural Resource Management Program, Parks Canada and other partners. It will also be linked to other similar programs including the School District’s Heritage Preservations Trades Skills 12A, dual crediting, career programming and adult education programming.

» Heritage Preservation Trade Skills SD 28

» College of New Caledonia