[BCMA] Upcoming heritage conservation courses

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The Cultural Resource Management Program at UVic has 3 heritage conservation courses coming up this summer. Please share!


Title: Industrial Heritage: Medalta Potteries Field School

Time: June 24-29,  2017

Location: Medalta Historic Clay District, Medicine Hat, Alberta
Description: This 6-day intensive course (36 hours of instruction) through the Cultural Resource Management Program at UVic can be taken for credit or for professional development. This course will use the Medalta Pottery Site at the Medicine Hat Historic Clay District as a premier case study to analyze a series of approaches to industrial heritage site conservation. Through this course you will develop techniques for examining and understanding the processes and products of industrial plants in order to determine and establish their values and significance. This immersive six-day course will examine the issues surrounding industrial sites through first-hand experience within the context of a functioning site undergoing conservation.
Learning objectives
·         Develop an historic profile that is based on an understanding of the raw materials, manufacturing processes, logistics and products affiliated with the industrial plant.
·         Establish significance and commemorative values to an industrial site.
·         Document and record significant aspects of an industrial site.
·         Provide a condition assessment of extant equipment and structures.
·         Produce a conservation master plan.

Website: https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/culture-museums-and-indigenous-studies/courses/industrial-heritage-medalta-potteries-field-school#/collapse-Four



Title: Heritage Conservation Workshop

Time: May 1-3,  2017

Location: University of Victoria, Victoria BC
Description: This 3-day course (18 hours of instruction) through the Cultural Resource Management Program at UVic can be taken for credit or for professional development. This course will focus on material conservation. Please contact the program coordinator for more information: crmcoord at uvic.ca<mailto:crmcoord at uvic.ca>


Title: Heritage Conservation in Context Online Course

Time: May 1 to August 6,  2017

Location: Distance learning online
Description: This course introduces students to the fundamental and interrelated dynamics of place, ritual, memory and history as these apply to heritage conservation. The 13 units chart a path from the philosophical and historical roots of conservation to the contemporary issues and challenges facing professional practitioners. Along the way the legal, regulatory and policy frameworks through which heritage conservation operates in Canada are explored. The philosophical underpinnings of conservation are revealed, compared and challenged. Finally, emerging issues in the conservation sector an affecting the conservation sector are presented, and discussed through case studies and assignments.
Website: https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/culture-museums-and-indigenous-studies/courses/heritage-conservation-in-context



All three courses are eligible for self-reporting CPD hours with CAHP.

Tusa Shea, PhD
Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
Email c<mailto:crmcoord at uvic.ca>rmcoord at uvic.ca<mailto:crmcoord at uvic.ca>
Web continuingstudies.uvic.c<http://www.continuingstudies.uvic.ca/cultural>a/cultural<http://www.continuingstudies.uvic.ca/cultural>



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