The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria is
offering the following immersion course for anyone involved in planning
heritage preservation projects. (Apologies to those of you for whom this is a
second posting - for some reason many people did not receive it when it was
initially sent earlier this month.)


HERITAGE PLANNING:  STRATEGIC APPROACHES TO CULTURAL
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Planning that recognizes and integrates community needs and values is your
key to successful preservation programs if you work in urban heritage
conservation, community heritage, First Nations heritage, and heritage sites.
This intensive course emphasizes the principles of strategic planning as a
framework for:
- reviewing and analyzing your resources, context, and issues
- developing a vision and writing a mission statement
- setting realistic goals and objectives
- reviewing and selecting implementation options
- defining budget
- information and personnel requirements
- undertaking a public participation program
- issues in leadership, working with volunteers, time management and dispute
resolution
- elements of a heritage management plan

You undertake a preparatory assignment  in your community, based on a
heritage project or program from your workplace or community. This material
is addressed and integrated throughout the course. As a course outcome, you
develop an outline of a strategic plan for your project or program.

Instructor: Alastair Kerr is a specialist in heritage planning with the British
Columbia Heritage Branch
Dates: October 21- 25, 1996, plus preparatory activities
Please register by: September 16
Fee: $589 (Canadian funds)


LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Through this course, you will develop your understanding of the following
concepts and your ability to apply them in a work situation:

- the principles of planning and the planning cycle

- the difference between the task elements and relationship elements within
the process of planning and how to manage them

- the principles and role of dispute resolution in planning

- how to undertake a comprehensive review and analysis as a start to planning

- how to define a vision and write a mission statement

- how to determine and set realistic goals and tasks based on the review and
analysis

- how to develop an achievable work plan


 DRAFT OUTLINE

October 14-18 Prepare description and analysis of a heritage project in your
community

Monday, October 21
- Welcome, Course Introduction and Participant Introductions
- The Elements of Heritage Planning
- Planning: A Problem-Solving Exercise
- No-host social get-together in the Graduate Student's Lounge

Tuesday, October 22
- Participants Presentations of Pre-Course Assignments and Selection of
Projects and Teams
- The Planning Cycle
- Role Play: Community and Group Dynamics-Planning is also about Managing
People
- The principles of Dispute Resolution in Managing the Heritage Planning
Process

Wednesday, October 23
- Reviewing and Analyzing of the Current Situation
- Answering the Question: Where Are We Now?
- Defining a Vision and Writing a Mission Statement
- Answering the Question: Where Do We Want to Get To?
- Developing Criteria and Determining Priorities
- Evening Group Project Work

Thursday, October 24
- Setting Goals Based on Priorities: Answering the Question: How Do We Get
There?
- Reviewing Implementation Options
- Determining Realistic Tasks, Human Resources, Timelines, Budgets and
Information Needs
- Evening Group Project Work

Friday, October 25
- Putting It All Together: Participant Presentations
- Where Do We Go Next-Implementing and Evaluating Your Plan
- Course Review and Evaluation
Joy Davis, Program Director
Cultural Resource Management Program
University of Victoria
Phone 604-721-8462
FAX 604-721-8774
email  [log in to unmask]

For detailed Program information, please visit our Web Site at
http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/