Conserving Historic Structures

While historic structures range from modest to monumental, and encompass a
remarkable variety of materials and uses, approaches to their conservation
are governed by core principles and determined by well-developed standards
of practice. This innovative distance education course enhances your
understanding of the complex characteristics of heritage structures,
systems, and materials, and provides frameworks for planning and managing
appropriate conservation processes. Using a combination of print and text
materials, CD Rom and web resources, you interact with the instructor and
participants from across North America and beyond, to develop your ability
to:

* identify the building materials and systems commonly encountered in
heritage structures
* analyze the nature and extent of deterioration in building materials and
systems' and identify its causes
* analyze the environmental factors which contribute to deterioration
* investigate and document the physical condition and history of a structure
and its materials
* select conservation strategies for a range of materials, based on the
condition and intended use of the structure
* plan and manage the conservation process

Throughout the course you are encouraged to work with a local historic
building or structure as focus for learning activities and assignments. Due
to its limited length and broad scope, the course is not intended to provide
participants with the skills to conduct specific conservation treatments.

Participants must have completed senior level course work in heritage
conservation on have two years' experience in conservation or preservation
practice.

Instructor: Katherine Rodway, B.A., M.Sc. in Conservation Science, is a New
York-based consultant in heritage conservation. She is currently involved in
the conservation of the Manhattan Bridge, and serves as an advisor to
graduate students in the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia
University.

Dates: January 8 - April 13, 2001

Please register by: December 22

Fee: $589 (Canadian funds, credit or non-credit options) plus $80 course
materials shipping fee for off- North American continent participants

Technical Requirements: E-mail, a computer with a CDROM drive, an Internet
connection, and Adobe Acrobat Reader and Shockwave (which you can download
from the course website) are necessary to access some resource materials. We
also recommend that you use Word 6.0 or higher as your word processing
software to ensure that you can submit assignments as attached documents
without problem. Please refer to Computer and Communications Requirements
for further detail.

Acknowledgements: We acknowledge, with thanks, the financial support of the
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training towards the
development of this course.

For more information, please contact:

Joy Davis, Program Director
Brenda Weatherston, Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
Division of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
Phone 250-721-8462
FAX 250-721-8774
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Visit our website! www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp
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